How Do You Stop a Bus with No Brakes? Justine Can Tell you
Justine bought her bus sight unseen in South Carolina in 2019. The brake line blew off the engine before she pulled out of the parking space.
That was the easy one.
A few years later she's rolling down a highway outside New Haven at night, in the rain, with the brake pedal on the floor and 70 miles to go to her brother's house. No shoulder. No place to park a bus. She puts it on cruise control at 35 and times the traffic lights.
We talk about that night, the three days stuck in a festival parking lot in Georgia, and the mobile mechanic in Waterloo, New York who took her money and broke more…
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