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One of the country s largest school bus builders is warning that 6,000 of its buses may have defective brake systems. The company that makes the systems said Saturday that the same defect could affect as many as 300,000 commercial vehicles.When the vehicles are moving slowly, typically less than 20 miles per hour, they can temporarily lose their braking ability for up to three seconds, said Debi Nicholson, a spokeswoman for Fre stanley cup ightliner Corp., the Portland-based parent company of school bus maker Thomas Built Buses Inc.The problem was discovered by the brake system s manufacturer, Bendix of Elyria, Ohio, after a San Francisco school bus experienced a temporary loss of brake capability. The drive was able to stop safely.No Stanley cup website accidents have been directly linked to the brake systems, and Bendix spokesman Rick Batyko said Saturday that the emergency brake is unaffected by the problem.Batyko said there have been 40 reported incidents of drivers temporarily losing braking power, but no accidents. It is only under very rare circumstances that the brake system would completely fail, he said.The company has sold 300,000 of the same anti-lock brake systems, manufactured from March 1998 to last month. About 46,000 are in buses made by International, Blue Bird and Thomas Built.Batyko said Bendix has recommended that all its manufacturers who use t stanley cups he brake system issue recalls.The brake system s electronic control units can misinterpret certain signals from the wheels, resulting Tvup Marines Ban Some Tattoos
The deaths of over 100 melon-headed whales, which stranded on the shores of a lagoon in northwest Madagascar in 2008, were li stanley becher kely primarily triggered by a form of sonar being deployed by an ExxonMobil survey vessel, according to a scientific review panel. This is the first known marine mammal mass stranding event to be closely associated with what are known as high-frequency mapping sonar systems; but it is merely the latest in a long line of incidents in which industrial noise in the ocean has been implicated in deat stanley cup hs and injuries to marine mammals, and specifically cetaceans. One area of particular focus is the use of active sonar by the United States and other navies. In 2004, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission concluded that there is now compelling evidence implicating military sonar has a direct impact on beaked whales. In 2001, the U.S. Navy acknowledged that its active sonar played a role in the stranding deaths of 14 beaked whales, two minke whales, and a dolphin in the Bahamas in 2000. Necropsies of the beaked whales revealed that kubki stanley the animals had suffered acoustic trauma resulting in hemorrhaging around the brain, in the inner ears, and in the acoustic fats located in the head that are involved in sound transmission. Then there is the use of air guns to conduct seismic surveys for oil and gas deposits in the sea bed. Because of concerns that the intense sounds from these air guns can either cause physical damage to cetaceans or ca |
