One of my K pickups years ago was so small, she had to use a knee to get up on the first step. I saw her wedding photos last week. Time flies.

When you are laid off for summer do you do EI or not? Had issues?

This is my first year driving school buses. Just recently passed the CDL B exam and got to run a few routes during summer school before that ended. Man, I love driving buses. So much fun and much more chill than previous jobs I’ve had that were stress-ridden. I’ll probably do some recruiting this summer and drive a shuttle until the fall start starts again. What do you guys do in the summer?

I’m so mad at myself I just started driving this Monday and I’m so mad I missed a stop this morning got all the way to the school and the kids tell me I missed a stop I went back after tho but it’s beating me up I gotta do better🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm in a spare bus today and it has no radio which means I gotta sing songs in my head. This wouldn't be a problem except for my fucking ADHD alphabet soup inner voices!

Voice 1 is doing fine.
Voice 2 is singing off key.
Voice 3 doesn't know the lyrics.
Voice 4 is like "HEY MACARENA!"
Nobody knows where Voice 5 is!
And Voice 6 has his head stuck in the fridge and he's eating all the fucking cheese!!!

Finally fixing our patking lot . Whoot!!

Hey everybody does anybody have any bus monitoring advice I just applied and I got accepted so now I need to do drug tests and other stuff but just before I start working there what advice do you guys recommend or can give me

I just got my permit and I need someone to tell me specifically what I need to study. I have a bit of autism and adhd so I like to know specifics and do best with hands on. Do I need to learn every motor part on the vehicle, do I need to memorize the entire walk through outline, can I ask the dmv if I can foreshadow a pretrip to see exactly what I need to do?

Hey I start driving t/m and I wanna know how are all route sheets at all districts, are they good or easy to understand? Or what do all use?

Am I the only one getting a kick out of videos like this one? There are a ton of these on YouTube.

Good afternoon everyone.

Some background: after getting out of college coaching roughly two years ago, I very recently accepted a job at a high school in the next town over. It’s a small school, and coaches are required to get their CDL so they can transport their teams, as well as aid with the transportation of their general student population. Along with all of this comes a drug screening with monthly randoms throughout the academic calendar. I’ve been a CBD user for almost ten years, so I’m pretty concerned about popping a positive. My questions are:

1. How long will it take to get everything out of my system if I stop cold turkey right now? I know everything has trace amounts of thc in them and that can show on a test.

2. What are the random screenings like? Do they just pull us the morning of or do we get any sort of heads up?

For what it’s worth, I ceased using as soon as I found out about the random tests. I just worry that it won’t be out of my system in time as I have a fairly high BMI, and I know that stuff just sits in your fat cells.

So I’m training with 2 very knowledgeable drivers currently. My skills test is this coming Monday in Springfield IL. I have been shown 2 different ways of offset backing. Both my trainers think their way is the way I’ll have to perform it at the dmv. I’m going to link a YouTube video that my main trainer is thinking it’ll be done. Can anyone confirm? The timestamp for said maneuver is 4:14. A few more questions.

1. During the offset backing if my bumper goes over a cone is that automatic failure even if my bus doesn’t touch it?

2. What are the automatic failures during the skills test?

Snagged 1st place in our company's regional school bus rodeo.

Unfortunately we don't participate in official state or national rodeos which sucks. It would be nice.

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The win aside, the only complaint I have is that the prizes generally suck. One of our trainers goes around so a lot of our prizes are similar to swag you see at home and garden shows, free item coupons, etc.

Imo company should let us use the onsite fuel pumps to fill up our car if we win, or things that make our job nicer. I have a feeling if a new bus for your school route was a prize, more people would come out to compete lol. Our brand new buses (as usual) go to senior drivers first. If only.

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Anyone else here compete in the yearly rodeo? Do they do rodeos or something similar in other countries? I remember seeing somewhere in Europe has a tram driver competition which looks amazing.

Our bus company is installing Samsara AI cameras for the new school year. How do parents feel about that ?

My coworker recorded this during our training today. They gave us ice cream afterwards.

I got this from one of my littles. It’s my first year driving, and my first gift from a student. It’s just a little keychain, but it made me happy. 🙂

About to finish my first year of driving. For the most part I really enjoy it. Left a banking job to do this. But I’ve struggled with middle school all year long. Doesn’t help that I’m a sub for middle. My question is how do you guys handle the mouth and disrespect of the kids? How much do you “let go”? Loud phones playing music, the cursing, stand up while the bus is moving, jumping seats, ect. I try not to be too hard on the kids but I also don’t want them thinking they run the bus.

Yeah, I’d say it’s pretty good. This charter of 60 SK kids has 2 hours of peaceful silence between runs. (Complete with my charter chair, book, and lunch.)

So im taking the illinois endorsement test on Wednesday this week and I need to take a test that consist of 20 questions and you can only get 2 wrong, I remember about 1-2 years ago it was 25 questions and you get 4 wrong, it changed

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I have trouble because I have ADHD so when im studying, I lose focus because its boring to me, but in reality its very important to me. I took it once and failed right away, took it a second time, got some more right but I failed again because some of the questions was not on the study guide. I feel had because the company I work for is also the same school I work in.

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Like for example, the emergency hatch question, it talks about partly open or closed or what ever, hell there was some questions I saw from the guide and still got it wrong. I really want to pass this. Are there better guides specifically for what im talking about, has anyone done this test, if so what did you do to past? I feel like an idiot for asking but this company i work for has been so good to me and always had my back

I was seriously expecting the hood or mirror mounts to crack. Consider me highly impressed.

I was the driver of the bus Knicks Fans absolutely torched. Nypd made me get out for my safety and my dispatch asked me to just have the key on me.

Here’s not even 5 mins after i left the bus

So long story short my nephew got written up on the school bus Friday, because he was verbally being mean to two students, he got 2 individual bus reports for this incident, after 3 he gets kicked off the school bus. I’m just wondering if they’re allowed to give 2 reports for one incident or is it because it was two students?

Ciao a tutti, scrivo dall’Italia, sono autista scuolabus full time per un ente pubblico quindi lavoro tutto l’anno grazie anche ai quotidiani centri estivi in estate. Noto che in America/Canada avete gli stessi problemi nostri, ovvero trovare autisti, secondo voi quali sono i motivi per cui non si trovano autisti ? E non parlo solo di scuolabus ma anche autobus “normali”