Transport Database and Photogallery Volvo 9700S 12,8m #59

13 february 2017 - Kviteseid bru, Kviteseid. The days of the brucks in Telemark are soon coming to an end. By 1 July 2019, new PSO contracts will take over, and for them, all the current brucks are way too old. (Maximum 25% of the buses can be Euro V, the rest must be Euro VI. The brucks are Euro II and III.) Also, all the local operators lost their contracts, so from then on the whole of Telemark will be operated by Nettbuss. This will not affect the commercial long-distance coach routes Haukeliekspressen and Telemarkekspressen, but essentially all the corresponding local routes will be lost. This also means that I can`t buy one ticket all the way between Drammen and Kviteseid anymore, but will have to buy a new one in Seljord. That is, if the local bus will even be an option. Some people in the Telemark county administration have suggested that all bus routes in upper Telemark that are not schoolbuses should be operated as on-demand routes, which means that one have to order it the day before. No matter how this turns out, it will guaranteed be a major setback to the bus traffic in the area.

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Cyklisten (2019-01-26 14:55:06.529981)
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Ah, so this is how we should tag freight buses/godsbuss (The bus of gods)
Øyvind Berg (2019-01-26 15:28:48.929763)
Well, you can always try to translate it to Polish, but I don`t know how that would be. When I worked on an article on English Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruck_(vehicle) ) almost four years ago, I came across information that they actually had this type of bus in North America too, introduced in the 1940s and 50s, and that they were called "bruck", combining the words "bus" and "truck". So why not just use it, as it is a short, yet describing word. To use any of the Nordic languages for the tags wouldn`t work, since they are named totally different in the different languages. (The word "godsbuss" simply doens`t exist in Norwegian, except as an influence from Swedish in recent years. We only use "kombibuss" or the non-shortened "kombinertbuss".)
Cyklisten (2019-02-08 00:22:41.586559)
Good to know so it will get same "search tag" everywhere. Godsbussar are not very common in Sweden today, so only "godsbuss" would not be a good idea..

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