Brent Cagle
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2,705 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 28 May
Brent Cagle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're very heavy so it puts a lot of weight on the front axle of the bus.
If you think about where the bus operator is sitting, it's putting a lot of weight on that front axle.
It also could create a hazard in the event of an accident.
if those barriers broke free because they are literally several hundred pounds for the door and those kinds of things.
It is a very, very heavy piece of glass.
So those are some of the concerns that the entire industry has around bullet resistant barriers is the weight of the glass.
Yep.
So useful life is about 12 years but certainly we have some that are beyond 12 years.
Our average fleet age right now, when I started our average fleet age was over 10 years.
Our average fleet age today is about seven years.
The FTA requires you to keep them 12 so that average age reflects the new vehicles and the older.
To your question,
We have about 35 full battery electric buses.
They have been good vehicles, but there are challenges in our operating environment utilizing them.
We have committed to electric hybrid buses.
And we have continued to buy those.
And we will continue to buy full battery electrics to monitor how the technology progresses.
The two biggest issues that we see with the battery electrics today are the amount of time, the runtime.
About 30% of our routes...
would require multiple buses if you were using battery electrics because one charge can't satisfy the entire route.
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