Pretty coincidental. The bus I'm on was just rear ended. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts the car had all seasons.
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How about dollars to doughnuts that the bus you are on has all-seasons?
They aren't. Not in the automotive sense.
A 7500kg+ bus responds very differently than a 1500kg Dynasty. When I was in the salmon business we had 5 tonne boom trucks. Loaded up with fish you could push through snow banks well up to the bumper on their fleet tires. Unloaded they were pretty well useless. The same principal is at work here.
And an urban bus fleet operating on a tight budget is operating under very different circumstances than a private vehicle owner.
To think that someone will buy or lease a $30k vehicle, then decide not to get the protection of winter tires because they're too cheap to kick in another grand. It boggles the mind.
I'm sure those heavy large suburban suv driver will use the same excuse not to use winter tires... ie they are heavy enough.
I will go with the point that city buses rarely get to a speed that would make them lose traction... but it could still occur.
Didn't fobby experience a "slip and slide" semi?
I'm guessing that the semi didn't have winter tires either.
I suppose semi may put on tire chains here in Alberta to get up some mountainous terrain near the rockies.
Work sites in northern Alberta have construction equipment put down sand and gravel during winter and vehicles don't need winter tires.
