Parking the THSCC Bus; the easy way to do it.

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:58 am

As some of you have noticed, where we store the bus is a tight squeeze and difficult to back in to, especially if it's dark and you're by yourself.

What I generally tell people is when returning the bus to pull it straight in nose-first, all the way to the fence between the two cones. That should get you in there easily and quickly with enough clearance between the trailer and the building so the body shop can get a car past it. Then lock it, close the gate, and leave.

My office is in the end of the building next to the bus parking spot, so I'll see it there in the morning and turn it around and back it in when it's daylight and I've got some spotters around. Plus after the 10th time doing it, I'm getting good at it.

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

The hard way to do it is to get all the body shop guys to help out and laugh at you while you back the bus trailer into the purple civic shell :oops:

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Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:17 pm

I checked out the purple Civic today. It's fine. Our only real plan for it at this point is as a donor shell if we ever ball up the Duff car. My daughter has mentioned pulling the engine/tranny and rebuilding them so she can have a car when she turns 16, so it may go that route, but I've got another year to worry about that.

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2015 6:19 pm

I'd be more concerned about the trailer than the civic. That trailer is rather beat as it is.

(It's not that hard to back in. After you do it a few times you know where everything has to be and when to turn. It's just annoying because you cannot see anything. If it weren't such a pain to unhook, I'd use the van to move it.)

Jordan Normark · **Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:23 pm

BriceJohnson wrote:

The hard way to do it is to get all the body shop guys to help out and laugh at you while you back the bus trailer into the purple civic shell :oops:

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Geez, Even I haven't done that...yet

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:24 pm

Whoever parked it after this past weekend was good, I can't get it in there that tight to the pile of wheel balancers.

Jordan Normark · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:24 pm

Haha, I was just trying to not hit the Sentra. It took a few tries to get it over that far but I must admit that I didn't notice the pile of wheel weights...unless they are under that huge tarp. If that's the case I hope there is an equal sized pile of wheel weights in China keeping the Earth in balance.

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:35 pm

No, wheel balancing machines, there must be 4-6 broken ones and a broken portable x-ray machine under that tarp. A guy I know asked me if he could store some stuff at the shop temporarily, and that was what he dropped off. They've been there for about a year now. I asked the Coats guy that repairs them to check them out, and none of them are worth fixing. One of these days I'll have someone haul them away.

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