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Here are a few websites and channels you should go check out if you want more bus videos or bus information!

Links

School Bus Web

The most active school bus website on the internet. It features lots of pictures from Kentucky (where it's based from) and lots of fan pictures. It also contains a very large and active forum.

School Bus Land

A good resource for bus pictures. Most were professionally taken at Midwest Transit, and has a large selection of pictures. It has unfortunately suspended from updates, but will remain on the internet.

West Coast Transportation Archives

A beta project featuring bus pictures from California.

A school bus magazine website with a forum.

School Bus Fleet

Another school bus magazine website with a forum.

Flickr Photostreams

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calibusguy

Carpenter Fan

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Georgia Blue Bird

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Krisschoolbusguy

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Ohio Motor Transit Photos

OSBE- Transportation Archives

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YouTube Channels

buslover333

'We are geared to suit School Bus fans like me. I post videos of my 3 buses as well as other buses I may drive every now and then.'

busboy501

'My Channel is about Hot wheels, School buses and every thing and anything with wheels or that floats!'

txstreetman owns the only school bus with 2 shifters- a 1987 Thomas International. He posts videos about the changes he makes to his bus and driving videos!

Bus Battles is an old channel of mine where me, buslover333, bluebirdfreightliner, and busboy501 discuss why our states specs looks better on buses. We also did a few discussion videos, not active as of now.

Yet another old channel of mine, busboy501 and I paired up to make short informational videos about old buses. We are not active on it anymore.

RigsofRodsFan

A Kentucky school bus fan who gets videos of various different buses from his district.

BluebirdFreightliner

You never know what you will get from Tyler's channel. He has various different bus walk arounds with some pretty entertaining commentary to top it off.

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Thomas Byrd

'Hello everyone, my name is ThomasBlueBirdIC, but you can call me Thomas for short. I am a school bus fan from Florida and I also am a fire truck and general vehicle enthusiast.'

Dogy

'I play Rigs Of Rods (a lot). I own my own server for Rigs Of Rods, and administrate on many. And I mod cars in Rigs Of Rods.'

'I make trucks and various vehicle mostly for Rigs of Rods, a free soft-body simulator.'

codlive135

'Pc gamer for dayz i post games for fun and enjoyment for everybody pm for games for me to try out'

ForInfinate

A personal friend of mine, ForInfinate makes short clips of various different PC games.

Nashawn03-12

'Hi guys my name is Nashawn. I love school buses as you might of noticed from my channel art. You also might have noticed pictures of Dolly Parton, I am a really big fan of her, I just love her. I do mostly real life route bus videos but i do also do Rigs of Rods videos. I drive school buses on Rigs of Rods multiplayer and if you want me to test a bus out feel free to ask. If you want be to do a video review of a bus for RoR feel free to ask. My favorite bus make is International/IC bus thats mainly what we have in my district so that's mainly what your going to see videos of. My favorite bus is Bus 03-12 which is a 2003 IC CE200 with a T444E in it'

Freightliner FS-65
2008 Thomas Built Buses FS-65 of Calvert County, Maryland
Overview
Manufacturer	Freightliner Custom Chassis (Freightliner LLC)
Production	January 1997-November 2006
Assembly	Gaffney, SC
Body and chassis
Class	Type C (conventional)
Layout	conventional 4x2
Body style(s)	Cowled chassis commercial bus specialty vehicle
Vehicles	see listing
Related	Freightliner FL60
Powertrain
Engine(s)	Caterpillar 7.2L 3126 I6 Caterpillar 7.2L C7 I6 Cummins 5.9L ISB I6 Mercedes-Benz 4.3L OM 904 LA I4 Mercedes-Benz 6.4L OM 906 LA I6
Transmission(s)	5-speed Fuller manual Allison 2000 automatic Allison MD3060 automatic
Dimensions
Wheelbase	150–276 in (3,810.0–7,010.4 mm)
Curb weight	18,000–35,000 lb (8,164.7–15,875.7 kg) (GVWR)
Chronology
Successor	Freightliner C2

The Freightliner FS-65 is a cowled bus chassis (conventional style) that was manufactured by Freightliner from 1997 to 2007. Derived from the Freightliner FL-Series medium-duty trucks, the FS-65 was produced primarily for school bus applications, though commercial-use buses and cutaway-cab buses were also built using the FS-65 chassis.

While developed by Freightliner before its acquisition of the Ford heavy-truck product range at the end of 1996 (and medium-duty truck lines were not included as part of the sale) the FS-65 would go on to serve as an indirect successor of the long-running Ford B-Series chassis. After 1998, Ford concentrated bus production towards van-derived chassis, leaving Freightliner to acquire much of the market share of full-size bus production owned by Ford.

The FS-65 chassis was assembled in Gaffney, South Carolina by the Freightliner Custom Chassis subsidiary of Freightliner; as an incomplete vehicle, the chassis was shipped to body manufacturers for final assembly of a bus. After a total of 62,764 units were produced, the final Freightliner FS-65 chassis rolled off the assembly line in November 2006, owned by O'Brien Bus Service, Inc. based out of Maryland.^[1]

Model history[edit]

2008 Thomas Built Buses FS-65. The last to produced in November 2006. Owned by O'Brien Bus Service, Inc. based out of Maryland.

1997-1998 Crown by Carpenter body on an FS-65 chassis

Freightliner FS-65 in Moscow (Blue Bird body)

Following the 1991 introduction of the Business Class medium-duty trucks, Freightliner Trucks began development of a school bus chassis based upon the vehicle. In May 1996, the first prototype (with a Thomas body) was unveiled.^[2] The first completely new school bus chassis introduced since the 1980 redesign of the Ford B-Series, the Freightliner school bus chassis (later named the Freightliner FS-65) was scheduled for mid-1996 production;^[2] the first Freightliner bus rolled off the assembly line in January 1997.^[3]

The FS-65 distinguished itself from other school bus chassis by the standardization of hydraulic anti-lock brakes at the time of its introduction (two years before their requirement in 1998).^[2] In tandem with the sloped hood, to aid driver visibility, the design of the chassis used a raised platform for the driver's seat.^[2] Although the FS-65 was designed alongside Thomas Built Buses (a company which Freightliner acquired in 1998), the Freightliner chassis was made available to other body manufacturers. As a result of the driver's platform, many bus bodies saw revisions to their designs to accommodate the FS-65 chassis, including windshield redesigns or the standardization of high-headroom bodies.

During its production run, the FS-65 chassis saw relatively few changes. For 2002, the Mercedes-Benz MBE900 diesel engines were added to the powertrain line as an option. For 2004, the Caterpillar 3126 became the Caterpillar C7 (as part of an emissions upgrade). A redesign of the instrument panel adopted a new instrument cluster, shared with the M2 and Sterling trucks.

In 2001, Freightliner introduced the second-generation Business Class, the M2. In 2004, the Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2 was introduced as the school bus variant of the M2. Sold alongside the C2, the FS-65 remained in production into the 2007 model year; the final Thomas school bus based on the FS-65 was produced in November 2006.^[1]

The 2006 discontinuation of the FS-65 marked the end of the FL-Series (alongside its severe-service variants), as medium-duty production ended after 2004.

Body manufacturers[edit]

At its 1997 launch, the FS-65 was widely available to manufacturers throughout the industry with a notable exception. AmTran never offered the chassis with its bus body (as the company was owned by Navistar International, one of the largest competitors of Freightliner).

Following the 2001 closure of Carpenter and the 2002 withdrawal of Corbeil from full-size bus production, Blue Bird ended the use of Freightliner chassis (in favor of a proprietary chassis, the Vision), leaving Freightliner subsidiary Thomas Built Buses the sole user of the FS-65 chassis for school bus production. Zila ghaziabad full movie hd 720p free download.

Freightliner FS-65 body manufacturers
Body Manufacturer	Blue Bird Corporation	Crown By Carpenter (later Carpenter Industries, Inc.)	Les Enterprises Michel Corbeil, Inc.	Thomas Built Buses
Model Name	Conventional	Classic (Crown by Carpenter) Classic 2000 (Carpenter)	Conventional	Thomas/Freightliner Saf-T-Liner FS-65
Production	1997–2002	1997-1999 2000-2001	1997–2002	1997–2007
Notes	Discontinued in 2002.	Crown by Carpenter Classic: four-piece windshield Carpenter Classic 2000: two-piece windshield (only version sold in that configuration)	Corbeil/Freightliner buses were sold only in Canada.	After 2002, the FS-65 was sold only with a Thomas body. Sold alongside Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2 after 2004.

Powertrain[edit]

Freightliner commercial bus (with a party/limo bus body)

The Freightliner FS-65 is notable as the first all-new school bus chassis in North America sold exclusively with diesel engines. Initially available with Caterpillar and Cummins diesel engines (shared with the Saf-T-Liner transits), in 2002, the FS-65 introduced the Mercedes-Benz MBE 900 diesels as an option.

An Allison 2000 automatic transmission was the standard transmission sold with the FS-65, with the Allison MD3060 as an option. A rarely-ordered option included a Fuller 5-speed manual transmission, making the FS-65 one of the last school buses sold with a manual transmission.

Freightliner FS-65 powertrain
Engine	Configuration	Production	Fuel	Output	Transmission
CAT 3126 /C7	7.2L inline-6	1997-2007	Diesel	190-250 hp	5-speed Fuller manual and Allison 545 automatic
Cummins ISB	5.9L inline-6	1997-2007		185-250 hp	Allison 2000 and MD3060 automatic
Mercedes-Benz OM 900 Series	4.3L inline-4 (OM 904 LA) 6.4L inline-6 (OM 906 LA)	2002-2007		OM 904 LA: 190 hp OM 906 LA: 190-250 hp	Allison 2000 and MD3060 automatic

References[edit]

^ ^a^b'Company History - Thomas Built Buses'. thomasbuiltbuses.com. Archived from the original on 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
^ ^a^b^c^d'Freightliner -- News'. 1998-01-18. Archived from the original on 1998-01-18. Retrieved 2017-02-20.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
^'Freightliner -- News'. 1998-01-18. Archived from the original on 1998-01-18. Retrieved 2017-02-20.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)

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