u/SayWaffles

American urban/suburban transit question: is it your agency or employer’s standard operating procedure to pull the spring brake (or set the parking brake) when serving passengers at a typical on-street bus stop? Setting aside special cases like loading bikes on a front bike rack or serving a transit center where you’ll be dwelling out of the travel lane.

I’m advising an agency on new bus routes, and their SOP is to put the cutaway in park or set the spring brake (they run 30/35’ Gilligs) whenever they are picking up or dropping off passengers. I have not encountered this as SOP and surely adds a significant amount of dwell time per stop, especially considering they’re typically boarding only one or two passengers per stop.

This morning I had a pleasant experience while I tried to just get a Rook run or two in before my kid woke up, I wanted to get more familiar with Outpost which has kicked my crews ass the few times we tried it. I loaded into a match with about 14:00 remaining and within a minute another crew encountered me and they got on mics and welcomed me to follow them and take whatever loot was left. I didn’t have my headset on but did the crouch sign and swapped to knife. It was really nice of them to accommodate me rather than just mow me down as they easily could have. Of course, the other rook they saw killed me moments later as I was on my way to an exfil, and I was distracted by my kid who had come in demanding to watch TV lol

Anyway thanks mystery crew for being generous. These interactions make this game fun.