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<blockquote data-quote="wornoutupser" data-source="post: 114038" data-attributes="member: 2196"><p>Tooner,</p><p></p><p> My P-5 is over the 1 million mark at 1,164,000 miles and still going. It was on the schedule to be crushed last year but now it will not be crushed.</p><p> As to the "safety" of the P-5, I have had 2 fall apart on the highway and I am scared to death of them. My opinion of them is that they are old, unsafe and they need to go. Ask the last driver in our building, she is in the middle of a lawsuit with Big Brown because she was put on the road in a P-5 that was written up 3 times in a week as unsafe to drive- take off road. It flipped over.</p><p> We had many P-5's that suddenly would veer off the road and I know because mine did it twice in one day with a supervisor onboard- once with me driving and once with him driving. The final determination was that they had to have matched tires, all new all the way around.</p><p> Guess how many we have now with new tires all the way around? That was two years ago and we are back to recaps on the back again.</p><p> Sorry for the rant but this center only seems to get mostly old garbage hand me downs from other metro centers. I used to have a P-10 on another route. It came out of Orlando.</p><p> When we got it,it was a "fine vehicle".</p><p> Baloney.</p><p> In 1 week, both the engine and transmission died. Orlando went nuts when our mechanic had the guts to charge the repairs back to them for their "fine vehicle".</p><p> </p><p> Our mechanic can only do so much- and that is 1 mechanic for 52 vehicles. What is the ratio in other facilities?</p><p></p><p> Please understand that I in NO way blame our mechanic. He has to put the tires on the cars that he is told to. We have one of the oldest (per car) fleets in the state that I am aware of.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wornoutupser, post: 114038, member: 2196"] Tooner, My P-5 is over the 1 million mark at 1,164,000 miles and still going. It was on the schedule to be crushed last year but now it will not be crushed. As to the "safety" of the P-5, I have had 2 fall apart on the highway and I am scared to death of them. My opinion of them is that they are old, unsafe and they need to go. Ask the last driver in our building, she is in the middle of a lawsuit with Big Brown because she was put on the road in a P-5 that was written up 3 times in a week as unsafe to drive- take off road. It flipped over. We had many P-5's that suddenly would veer off the road and I know because mine did it twice in one day with a supervisor onboard- once with me driving and once with him driving. The final determination was that they had to have matched tires, all new all the way around. Guess how many we have now with new tires all the way around? That was two years ago and we are back to recaps on the back again. Sorry for the rant but this center only seems to get mostly old garbage hand me downs from other metro centers. I used to have a P-10 on another route. It came out of Orlando. When we got it,it was a "fine vehicle". Baloney. In 1 week, both the engine and transmission died. Orlando went nuts when our mechanic had the guts to charge the repairs back to them for their "fine vehicle". Our mechanic can only do so much- and that is 1 mechanic for 52 vehicles. What is the ratio in other facilities? Please understand that I in NO way blame our mechanic. He has to put the tires on the cars that he is told to. We have one of the oldest (per car) fleets in the state that I am aware of. [/QUOTE]
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