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Post by towerman on Jan 6, 2017 12:12:40 GMT
I've noticed that a lot of drivers(at Kettering & Northampton garages)switch off the offside saloon lights during the hours of darkness as they reflect on the windscreen and hamper their view of the road.Is there any other areas where this is done?
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Post by stubag on Jan 6, 2017 13:30:24 GMT
Ive always done it!
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Post by RT3062 on Jan 6, 2017 14:25:08 GMT
I've noticed that a lot of drivers(at Kettering & Northampton garages)switch off the offside saloon lights during the hours of darkness as they reflect on the windscreen and hamper their view of the road.Is there any other areas where this is done? some of the 370s drivers used to do this. Thats one of the things that take a bit of getting used to after passing the test.. speaking from experience !!
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Post by jay38a on Jan 6, 2017 16:31:06 GMT
Me too. When i had an E200 on the 464 and 146 at night, the passengers said to me, driver you can turn the lights out completely if you want along the lanes, so i know other drivers have done it, so i had no glare at all. But did say please don't get up until I've stopped and turned the lights back on. On a MPD theres no glare at all, so i keep all lights on.
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Post by towerman on Jan 6, 2017 16:54:27 GMT
Me too. When i had an E200 on the 464 and 146 at night, the passengers said to me, driver you can turn the lights out completely if you want along the lanes, so i know other drivers have done it, so i had no glare at all. But did say please don't get up until I've stopped and turned the lights back on. On a MPD theres no glare at all, so i keep all lights on. It only seems to be on double decker routes,they don't do it on Darts or Solos.
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Post by jay38a on Jan 6, 2017 17:27:16 GMT
Me too. When i had an E200 on the 464 and 146 at night, the passengers said to me, driver you can turn the lights out completely if you want along the lanes, so i know other drivers have done it, so i had no glare at all. But did say please don't get up until I've stopped and turned the lights back on. On a MPD theres no glare at all, so i keep all lights on. It only seems to be on double decker routes,they don't do it on Darts or Solos. Yep Darts and Solos there no glare nor is there on an E400 i find. Its just E200s and Esteems. The Esteems are even worse then the E200s, to the point they were actually banned from the 464, R5/R10 and R8 at night cause you really could not see anything.
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Post by eggmiester on Jan 6, 2017 23:34:04 GMT
I used to do that when I drove WVL's as the saloon lights came right up to and near enough over the front luggage rack..
I only mainly on did this on the WVL's though, on E buses and PVL's the saloon lights never really came too far forward to warrant leaving the nearside lights off.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jan 7, 2017 0:31:09 GMT
Some drivers are just lazy and forget it when they switch the engine off, mainly with E400/200. When it is switched back on it would only leave the offside lights off. The annoying thing about this type of driver they are the same ones that forget or never turn the blindbox light on. They would also leave the offside interior light on and most likely the headlights on when on the stand with the engine off.
I always made a habit to switch all lights off on the stand. Maybe because I drove buses when there was no battery guard system, so leaving lights on could have result in a flat battery.
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Post by vjaska on Jan 7, 2017 1:18:36 GMT
Back when London was populated with Omnidekkas, I used to see many running around lights off - even had a Southern railway replacement service from Brighton to Haywards Heath where it got dark and the driver turned the lights off as we sped along the A23
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Post by londonbusboy on Jan 7, 2017 10:26:30 GMT
I switch the offside lights off on our e200s due to glare, at our garage they have modified the nearside lights so when the front doors are closed the first 2 or 3 lights go off completely.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jan 7, 2017 11:55:26 GMT
I switch the offside lights off on our e200s due to glare, at our garage they have modified the nearside lights so when the front doors are closed the first 2 or 3 lights go off completely. But I thought they all did this though. I guess then it was operator specific. Only problem bus I had glare with were early ALX400's then Stagecoach modified them to have a blue light and also cut the front two lights out when entrance door was closed.
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Post by thesquirrels on Jan 7, 2017 12:02:55 GMT
Up until quite recently it was normal to have blue lighting nearest the cab and front door to reduce internal glare - remember this especially on Metrobuses in North London, but I know the practice continued after that for a while. Why was this phased out?
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Post by john on Jan 7, 2017 20:26:51 GMT
I switch the offside lights off on our e200s due to glare, at our garage they have modified the nearside lights so when the front doors are closed the first 2 or 3 lights go off completely. The Scanias are both the worst and the best. Worst for the glare BUT luckily you can switch the front lights between the two doors off, so no more glare in the window!!
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jan 7, 2017 21:26:15 GMT
Up until quite recently it was normal to have blue lighting nearest the cab and front door to reduce internal glare - remember this especially on Metrobuses in North London, but I know the practice continued after that for a while. Why was this phased out? The blue light didn't help that much with the glare. It is better the front two lights are cut off instead.
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Post by sid on Jan 9, 2017 15:09:29 GMT
I've noticed that a lot of drivers(at Kettering & Northampton garages)switch off the offside saloon lights during the hours of darkness as they reflect on the windscreen and hamper their view of the road.Is there any other areas where this is done? Do you mean near side lights rather than offside?
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