Why don't all the school buses have tire chains?

[Strate L O S S]

is there any reason they should? trucks hardly get stuck within city limits

soduku kills time well

[nycricanpapi]

Originally Posted by NooYowkur81

They get stuck without the chains. I've seen it.

Yes is true. Yesterday I saw a school bus stucked.

[SeventhFloor]

Transfercar » Blog Archive Driving in the snow: Where, what, why & how to use snow chains | Transfercar

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

Transfercar » Blog Archive Driving in the snow: Where, what, why & how to use snow chains | Transfercar

That's just a total fluff page on a website trying to get ad clicks

If you want the real low down details, this is the actual law:

New York State Laws
VAT (Vehicle and Traffic)
Title 3
Article 9
§ 375 Equipment

35-a. It shall be unlawful to operate a motor vehicle or trailer
equipped with tires having metal objects protruding from the tire tread
upon any public highway. The prohibition contained in this section shall
not apply to pneumatic tires containing metal type studs, the diameter
of which studs inclusive of the stud casing does not exceed
three-eighths of an inch and which do not protrude beyond the tread
surface of such tires more than three thirty-seconds of an inch and the
contact area of which does not exceed three-fourths of one per cent of
the total nominal contact area of said tires determined by multiplying
the circumference of the outer most edge of tread times the tread width,
except that no vehicle equipped with such tires, other than school buses
and state or municipally-owned vehicles, may operate on a public highway
during the period from the first day of May to the fifteenth day of
October, inclusive.



so.... it turns out schoool buses are allowed

[Strate L O S S]

studded tires and snow chains are different things

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by BlakeJones

That's just a total fluff page on a website trying to get ad clicks

If you want the real low down details, this is the actual law:

New York State Laws
VAT (Vehicle and Traffic)
Title 3
Article 9
§ 375 Equipment

35-a. It shall be unlawful to operate a motor vehicle or trailer
equipped with tires having metal objects protruding from the tire tread
upon any public highway. The prohibition contained in this section shall
not apply to pneumatic tires containing metal type studs, the diameter
of which studs inclusive of the stud casing does not exceed
three-eighths of an inch and which do not protrude beyond the tread
surface of such tires more than three thirty-seconds of an inch and the
contact area of which does not exceed three-fourths of one per cent of
the total nominal contact area of said tires determined by multiplying
the circumference of the outer most edge of tread times the tread width,
except that no vehicle equipped with such tires, other than school buses
and state or municipally-owned vehicles, may operate on a public highway
during the period from the first day of May to the fifteenth day of
October, inclusive.



so.... it turns out schoool buses are allowed

I just wanted to post when should snow chains on tires actually should be used....that has nothing to do with the law...when they are best optimized.

[Thehouse]

Some people complain about everything. Without tire chains, these buses WILL WILL WILL get stuck and in the smallest amount of snow. It is the reason you dont see bus operators try to pull into the bus stop. Remember that NYC roads are designed with a slope to help water channel into the drain. Further more, you get better traction with chains. The garbage trucks and many plow trucks utilize the same system. Also, these buses are RWD only, and if you know anything about vehicles, RWD cars are the worse in snow. That tail will kick right out and get out of control.