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Better safe than sorry.
I am a member of a local bus forum and one member posted this story (after I had posted it here).
Some of the members seem to have close connections to the operators.
I pointed out that tyre pressure monitoring would have prevented this fire (or at least it could have if the driver had responded to the warning).
They seem to have many breakdowns where the bus 'fails' (such as overheating due to loss of cooling fluid) where (IMO) the driver should have been aware of something wrong, but, it seems that, unless the vehicle stops of its own volition the drivers have to keep going.
Several times I have been on buses with warning lamps lit and the drivers tell me that "It doesn't matter."
When when I've mentioned things like a screaming back axle (still screaming week after week) or harsh shifts it seems to fall on deaf ears.
Few (if any) of the drivers seem to have any appreciation of significant mechanical matters.
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