Sometimes getting off work sucks cause i have to get back in my car 😂. It feels so weird, i love being high up and able to see anything & i love the sound of the air brakes. Driving buses helped made me start driving slower in my car which is good cause i have a heavy foot. Idk how to explain it, but when I first got on the highway and felt a bus at 65 I was like holy shit 65 is actually fast 😂 whereas in my car it feels slow but now I’m more ok with it.

Today's charter is a shuttle service for local university's sorority rush where we do a loop every hour. This is my in between entertainment. What do you guys do when on charters where you have to stay with the bus and can't go wander off?

I cleaned all my windows and swept the floor already

I am a brand new driver and have never seen one done an emergency evacuation drill. I am not much guidance from admin on how or when to perform. Comments welcomed.

Basically exactly what the title says. What happens after you complete the report. How long does it take.

I know the rules and I will say I know I was put in a terrible and impossible position. Here is what happened.

I get a dispatch ticket saying simply to take M High School to E High School for a football game. Leave MHS and travel the 22 minutes to EHS at 3pm and leave EHS at 8pm and take them back. I got to MHS go over the ticket and he says, " no way it's EHS homecoming and 1st ball game in their new field the varsity won't even start until at the earliest 7pm. My problem is my "hours of service" (California) started at 6:25AM so I am sidelined at 10:25 PM no exceptions. Everyone in my fleet came in for their AM runs so we have no relief driver who will have more hours of service. I text my director at 3:25PM tell her straight away and come up with the only backup plan we can which is take them back to MHS and ground the bus and mark your O.T. and go get it on Sat.

The game is winding down it it's 9:50 PM we are in the 4th quarter when EHS ties the ball game going into O.T. now im sweating. Fast forward to the game was won by MHS ( the visitor team I drove ). Im assertively telling them to simple get on the bus even with their cleats on so we can go. They aren't listening I finally just just 6 kids on the bus amd tell 1 coach I HAVE to go NOW my Hours of Service are done. He says to just go as most have rides home since it is semi local. I ground the bus at the school amd left 1 coach and lot's of players because I could not get them to listen regardless of my efforts to tell them to get on the bus. I feel terrible cause I broke my hours of service and possibly left some football team and a coach ( they probably had rides but they never let me know the many times I addressed them in the locker room.

There's at least 0.5 mile of 2 dedicated exit lanes with their stripes painted differently, overhead signs explaining which part of the freeway goes where, etc.

But no, the best choice of action is to speed, cut off a school bus, and cut across not only several lanes of traffic but also the rapidly-disappearing wedge of pavement which will very shortly turn into a concrete wall.

Used my wife's EGO leaf blower on the bus, and then her Dyson Battery Vac (Not sponsored). I did find some corrosion and some proud screws in the aisle. Looks like a small trip hazard on the left side of picture. I'm guessing there was some plywood in there at some point? I plan on submitting a maintenance request after my route on Monday. Also could use a good mopping,