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Originally Posted by PNW_Steve
I don't know if or where in Colorado they "salt" the roads when it snows. I am guessing that they don't as we don't see much rust on buses coming out of there. That is how it is where I live. They sand when it snows. No chemicals.
Tell me about rust in Kansas? I may be moving there at some point. I have been to the Wichita area three times in the last year and the weather has been very mild. I was there a couple of weeks ago and it was mostly t-shirt weather. It was the same November of 2018.
I wouldn't have thought that Kansas would be a problem area for rust....
A comment on the post stating that transportation contractors run their buses into the ground before retiring them. I have purchased from First Students and would not hesitate to buy another. I spent some time hanging out in their Seattle facility looking over buses, talking to drivers and the service guys. Nice folks.
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Here in the KC Metro area, they salt the crap out of roads when they anticipate frozen precipitation. When I was searching for our Bus in 2018, there was nothing but rust buckets (unless you were willing to pay a premium). I looked out West and found our Crown
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