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Behind The Scenes

Posted by BusRider on Mon Mar 23 09:50:54 2020

With this pandemic and affects on transit service, does anyone know if manufacturing and/or new vehicle orders and deliveries have been halted as well? I believe I read China has to have a 14 day consecutive day without any new virus cases to lift their travel ban.

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Re: Behind The Scenes

Posted by AlM on Mon Mar 23 10:16:02 2020, in response to Behind The Scenes, posted by BusRider on Mon Mar 23 09:50:54 2020.

Transit companies still will need the vehicles they have ordered. No one is expecting a large long term decline in transit use.

Certain individual manufacturing facilities have been closed temporarily to contain the virus, but no one is proposing any long term closures. An assembly line is much less of a threat to spreading the virus than a restaurant, because you work side by side with the same group of people every day.

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Re: Behind The Scenes

Posted by BusRider on Mon Mar 23 11:49:52 2020, in response to Re: Behind The Scenes, posted by AlM on Mon Mar 23 10:16:02 2020.

Thanks. I was thinking would this push back any already planned deliveries or manufacturing.

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Re: Behind The Scenes

Posted by AlM on Mon Mar 23 14:03:59 2020, in response to Re: Behind The Scenes, posted by BusRider on Mon Mar 23 11:49:52 2020.

Right. Deliveries may get delayed but there doesn't seem to be any reason to expect cancellations.

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Re: Behind The Scenes

Posted by randyo on Mon Mar 23 14:55:29 2020, in response to Re: Behind The Scenes, posted by AlM on Mon Mar 23 14:03:59 2020.

What I can see is that all the railcars manufactured in China will have to be thoroughly sanitized upon arrival in the US before they are placed in service.

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Re: Behind The Scenes

Posted by massbusmark on Mon Mar 23 20:19:19 2020, in response to Behind The Scenes, posted by BusRider on Mon Mar 23 09:50:54 2020.

I saw on one of the Facebook bus groups that Gillig has temporarily shut down production, unknown when they will resume operations. I haven't read or heard anything about MCI/New Flyer or Nova/Prevost.

Mark

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Re: Behind The Scenes

Posted by Joe V on Tue Mar 24 07:57:47 2020, in response to Re: Behind The Scenes, posted by randyo on Mon Mar 23 14:55:29 2020.

True, but the virus only survives on inanimate surfaces for 72 hours, and the delivery takes weeks, going through all sort of temperature and humdity situations.

There is no reported danger in accepting your personal shipments from China. Just wash off the box and wash your hands after you handle the shipping box it came in.

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Re: Behind The Scenes

Posted by randyo on Tue Mar 24 14:59:40 2020, in response to Re: Behind The Scenes, posted by Joe V on Tue Mar 24 07:57:47 2020.

It would still be a good idea to thoroughly sanitize the cars anyhow.

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