SBS 2888T and Training School
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Originally posted by SBS8258Y:
think 8100T oso becoming a trg bus, spotted along buangkok green at noon.
its perm training..
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Originally posted by ahjack 77:
Ya lor. How come SBST wanna put 2888T to TRG? Can put those outgoing MKIII or even put KUB =X
HGDEP in fact had taken out several Volvo MK3 fleets from services like 100, 109, 147, 156, 159, 163 etc. Some of which became perm TRG. HGDEP also took some MK3s from BNDEP as well to put it on TRG.Mainly some Batch 1s became perm TRG too, sometimes Euro 5 will also do TRG. Purpose is to let the drivers familise with such buses before K230UBs can be introduced to certain bus services.
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Originally posted by SMB32T:
HGDEP in fact had taken out several Volvo MK3 fleets from services like 100, 109, 147, 156, 159, 163 etc. Some of which became perm TRG. HGDEP also took some MK3s from BNDEP as well to put it on TRG.Mainly some Batch 1s became perm TRG too, sometimes Euro 5 will also do TRG. Purpose is to let the drivers familise with such buses before K230UBs can be introduced to certain bus services.
K230UBs will be used for training for the forseeable future as they are the model that SBST are introducing in large numbers. if your new BC doesnt know how to drive a K230UB and your fleet largely consists of K230s.. then how?
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Originally posted by SBS9818A:
K230UBs will be used for training for the forseeable future as they are the model that SBST are introducing in large numbers. if your new BC doesnt know how to drive a K230UB and your fleet largely consists of K230s.. then how?
What I know about SBST is that the perm buses are allocated at the same duty slot at a given schedule, the BCs rotate duties and drive different buses every week. Which means if the BCs are driving the bus route that has perm K230UBs all the BCs for that bus route got to be familiarised with such buses. There's possibilities that BCs will be scheduled to drive a K230UB for that particular week. If the BC hapen to be unfamiliarised......Unlike SMRT's practice whereby the BCs rotate duties together with the same bus which they are driving every week.
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Originally posted by SMB32T:
What I know about SBST is that the perm buses are allocated at the same duty slot at a given schedule, the BCs rotate duties and drive different buses every week. Which means if the BCs are driving the bus route that has perm K230UBs all the BCs for that bus route got to be familiarised with such buses. There's possibilities that BCs will be scheduled to drive a K230UB for that particular week. If the BC hapen to be unfamiliarised......Unlike SMRT's practice whereby the BCs rotate duties together with the same bus which they are driving every week.
This is not true.
In SBST, even though the BCs rotate their duties every other week, the buses go over with them too.
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Hi sbs7207b,
Regret to inform that SBS 2888T is being use for training within the training centre in Hougang Depot. At the moment, she will not be driving outside. Hence, if you want to catch the glimpse of the bus, is only when she return to Bedok North Depot for planned maintenance. Her next schedule check will be sometime in mid Oct.
By the way, SBS 2888T is the one and only model out of the 3000 buses in SBS.
Hope the info help, and have a nice day.
Cheers!
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Thanks Angus Biztech
Loook like I hv to give a miss on that bus this trip, I only have 72 hours before I come over, no way for me to apply permit to go in...
Thanks anyway........
Very strange is, Hippo Tours still have 4 of these running everyday without problem, wonder whats wrong with this bus...
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Originally posted by Angus.biztech:
Hi sbs7207b,
Regret to inform that SBS 2888T is being use for training within the training centre in Hougang Depot. At the moment, she will not be driving outside. Hence, if you want to catch the glimpse of the bus, is only when she return to Bedok North Depot for planned maintenance. Her next schedule check will be sometime in mid Oct.
By the way, SBS 2888T is the one and only model out of the 3000 buses in SBS.
Hope the info help, and have a nice day.
Cheers!
hope that after the maintenance it would go back on service...
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Originally posted by sbs7207b:
Thanks Angus Biztech
Loook like I hv to give a miss on that bus this trip, I only have 72 hours before I come over, no way for me to apply permit to go in...
Thanks anyway........
Very strange is, Hippo Tours still have 4 of these running everyday without problem, wonder whats wrong with this bus...
They have 6 out of the 8 L94UBs we have in Singapore.
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i've never took it before. Hopefully when it comes back on revenue service it's given a repaint/restickered livery or something.
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Originally posted by TIB537B:
i've never took it before. Hopefully when it comes back on revenue service it's given a repaint/restickered livery or something.
Yea, i wanna take it too!
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Sorry guys. SBS 2888T will not be deploy on normal revenue service. She will goes back to Training School after each maintenance and servicing, for training new Bus Captains.
sbs 7207b : there is nothing wrong with SBS 2888T, except being the only model bus in SBS, makes her uneconomical (technician-to-bus ratio, inventory to be carry etc) to be maintain and run on the scale like the larger fleet. In fact, SBS 2888T is very well behave when she was runing on service 518, prior being assign to Training School.
I miss her too...
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I heard from one of the 518 BCs driving 2888 that SBS Transit had considered scrapping it several times, as it was causing a lot of problems.
(this was several months ago.)
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Originally posted by Lameomaster:
I heard from one of the 518 BCs driving 2888 that SBS Transit had considered scrapping it several times, as it was causing a lot of problems.
(this was several months ago.)
So apparently deploying to training school will hopefully lessen the problems for 2888T. Though i feel it's possible SBST sell this to a company also operating a fleet of L94UBs. -
Originally posted by TIB537B:
So apparently deploying to training school will hopefully lessen the problems for 2888T. Though i feel it's possible SBST sell this to a company also operating a fleet of L94UBs.yea, as they might have more parts than SBST.
Sad.... 2888T nvr on revenue service from now already. Occassionally i will catch it on my other journeys, but now no more. Still remember one time i was at Pasir Ris waiting for svc 12 and 2888T appeared. By the time i asked my aunt whether i could take it, it already gone off
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Originally posted by TIB537B:
So apparently deploying to training school will hopefully lessen the problems for 2888T. Though i feel it's possible SBST sell this to a company also operating a fleet of L94UBs.
no way!
this model still better than kubs
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Originally posted by Angus.biztech:
Sorry guys. SBS 2888T will not be deploy on normal revenue service. She will goes back to Training School after each maintenance and servicing, for training new Bus Captains.
sbs 7207b : there is nothing wrong with SBS 2888T, except being the only model bus in SBS, makes her uneconomical (technician-to-bus ratio, inventory to be carry etc) to be maintain and run on the scale like the larger fleet. In fact, SBS 2888T is very well behave when she was runing on service 518, prior being assign to Training School.
I miss her too...
Sorry to burst your bubble...but 2888T had to be one of the biggest mainteinance nightmare.
It wasn't just the chassis that in the end, was left as it was, one of the 2 EDS backlight was spoilt for years and only replaced recently.
Kinda like the Tridents as far as mainteinance is concerned, only probably worse if possible.
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Hi SBS 2601,
EDS on SBS 2888T ? Not that I know off ... (however, its does really look like EDS from afar ... upon closer scrutiny, is just an oridinary sign with pot-dots yellow colour on it)
Maintenance , no nightmare. Just that the economy of scale is not justifiable to run on revenue service. Certain spare parts may not be readily available when needed. (comparing 10 to 18 hrs per day on revenue service, to about 2 hours per day use on Bus Captain training).
Scania Singapore support will also comes in to help, if encounter technical problem on the bus. In short, no worry. SBS 2888T is good and reliable.
Have a good day ahead ! Cheers ...
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Hi to all
I am an ex-SBS Transit bus captain and had driven SBS2888T before. This bus is pretty reliable, it is quite well maintained as there is support from Scania Singapore. I have heard from my ex-colleagues its due to spare parts issue that they removed SBS2888T from revenue service. I would give SBS2888T a rating of 8 out of 10.
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I won't deny the bus is pretty reliable...but the fact that spare parts was an issue would have been trouble enough.
What I pointed out about stuff like the EDS backlight really mirrors 9671E which went around with half the EDS practically invisible.
This shouldn't have anything to do with Scania, unless of course you point out that its because they found it pointless to maintain it properly because the bus has a lack of spare parts to run on in the first place. And that the bus would have to lay-up for an overhaul which eventually it did....and it came out pretty fine.
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But dont forget that for some reasons, 2888t got this problem with the air suspension which they didnt solve for years.
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Angus.biztech, are you from Corp Comms?
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Originally posted by Angus.biztech:
Hi sbs7207b,
By the way, SBS 2888T is the one and only model out of the 3000 buses in SBS.
Hope the info help, and have a nice day.
Cheers!
can you PM me the source of this info? thanks. u dun happen to be from East District right? :)