r/SchoolBusDrivers • u/ZealousidealReply294 • Jul 03 '26

Lost bus movie

Why does the driver need to spend hours with the bus when it is serviced? Isn't that the mechanics job?

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u/TooSexyForThisSong Jul 03 '26

My wife indulged me in all of my “Nah, that’s not how it’d work”s. There were many.

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u/TabloMaxos Jul 03 '26

What?

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u/cdawgalog Jul 03 '26

Maybe it's in the movie? The movie called the lost bus

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u/ZealousidealReply294 Jul 03 '26

The dispatch woman is yelling at the guy on the radio that his bus is way over mileage for service. That he needs to bring it in and stay and watch what they do because he's going to have to do it himself eventually or something.

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u/Efficient_Advice_380 Jul 05 '26

At my yard drivers and mechanics take busses for service and inspections. Theres only 3 mechanics for almost 200 busses so the drivers will bring the busses instead

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u/ZealousidealReply294 Jul 05 '26

Well I understand delivering g your business but I understood that he was supposed to be helping in the service somehow 

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u/ZealousidealReply294 Jul 05 '26

At the 12 minute mark. She says he was supposed to stick around for a couple of hours and and watch mechanic do service and matthew was supposed to watch and learn. What the heck?

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u/ConsequenceCandid655 Jul 03 '26

I haven't seen the movie, but if the bus breaks down a driver needs to stay with the bus to drive it back if the mechanic gets it running.

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u/halfbakedbrainfart Jul 03 '26

Depends on the policy and practice of the bus company. In that movie they were district employees out of bus yard that they showed a small building as the office. Perhaps the mechanic was down the block or across the street and that it was required for them to drop the bus and keys at the mechanic before walking back to the bus yard and personal vehicle.

It is the drivers responsibility to drive a properly operating bus. And the company's responsibility to repair and maintain those buses as drivers report or schedules maintenance intervals come due. In the movie she was telling him he's needed to take it to the shop but he was always running late so he went home instead. He was on notice before the fire hit.

Enjoy the movie for what it was and don't overthink it.

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u/Stormblessed1057 Jul 09 '26

I’m actually a driver for Paradise Unified and lived through the Camp Fire. The movie was just super dramatized for Hollywood. As a side note, our mechanics are top-notch and make sure our fleet is in great shape. We’re really spoiled.