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How long have you been a school bus driver?

Way to go Linda!

Way to go Linda!

Have to be careful of food allergies 😢

What the fuck

That's great. I don't allow eating on my bus for all those reasons especially the choking!!

Love the skit! Great editing as well, Paul!

Welcome back to a new school year. 😊 I have had similar instances. We are given a limited amount of paid time to clean our busses (if we don’t have a long route, a quick sweep and maybe a wipe of some windows can fit into our allotted time slot, as part of our 15 minutes for our post-trip inspection). Beyond that, I can put a time card in for 30 minutes every two weeks to wash the bus exterior and mop the floor, clean interior windows, etc. Needless to say, I spend way more time than this, so quite a bit of the cleaning I do is unpaid and something like a spilled smoothie can take away significant amounts of my time to take care of my own household and family obligations. I often schedule appointments, do errands or shopping or start laundry or dinner in a slow cooker if possible between runs, then get home at 6, exhausted, 12 hours after my day started and 3 hours before bed. I need to finish making dinner, eat, clean up, connect with my family if possible, check for notices from school & get my kid ready for the next day/bedtime routine, lock up the house and get *myself ready for the next day before getting ready for bed myself. So then I need to find time within those three hours, to do extra cleaning and writing behaviour reports? If students just followed the rules on the bus (eating and otherwise) and could drop trash like used Kleenexes in the garbage can outside the school (on their way in from the bus to the front door) instead of on the floor of the bus, it would make a huge difference. It really is a matter of respect. In addition to safety, as you mentioned, and the no eating or drinking rule is therefore even legislated. Drivers don’t *just make up the rules for their own convenience. How much of an issue is it if someone notices and tells me a child is choking, I have to find a safe place to pull over out of traffic, secure the bus, do first aid and call an ambulance to check the child afterwards, calling dispatch to inform parents to pick up their kids or send another driver to get the other kids off my bus if possible, before getting everyone else to school an hour late-assuming the choking child is actually ok-and writing up the report. Maybe just get up 15 minutes earlier to finish breakfast, or have a quick granola bar or something in the afternoon while getting ready for the bus, to tide you over until you get home and can eat more. 🙏 End of pet peeve rant, lol. I do have to admit it is usually waaaaay better on my current special needs run than it was on past general public school runs. 💕 Have a wonderful, safe, relaxed, and squeaky-clean year, everyone. 😊

1:43 idk why, but I actually love this sound. It just sounds so chilling especially when the bus is in motion

Recently retired, OTR trucker but bus is very different, my wife drove school bus 46 years

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Just retired and trying my hand at school bus driver so these are helpful 😊

Recently retired OTR trucker,now just hired as school bus driver so I’m glad your here 👍

Great job Paul. Have a rocking school year.

Enjoy the " Bus News", Segements,. Im A 65 yo Vet, Mostly retired now Plumber,,,, an Tour Bus Driver. S.B.sub since 2011,,,, as well.. Took Full Time Route here in Alabama. I have a utube Channel. I can appreciate The Editing, camera placement, etc. If U reach only 1 Driver, uve done well. Regards, Captain John😊

I love how passionate you are about your job! It’s nice to see!

Hey Paul!! Have a great year!! You got me through the first 8 minutes of my bike ride (stationary)!! I’m grateful for bus drivers like you! Love the snappy music! Fun! Patrick would have LOVED riding your bus!

Yes this info needs to be mandatory in training class.

This is helpful wish it was taught in the course class when training.TY for your efforts and time, the info vids and for including a kitty to start things off with a smile.

I drove public transit for years tired school bus driving wrnt back to public transit the low pay for school bus drivers is terrible for everything we have to put up with

Hello there, I am about to do all my CDL class B on Monday do you have any tips with kids and bus I should know about?

Best bus driver ever

This is soooo awesome! You make it fun!

I remember when the 6 new buses come back in 98 during my high school years under Pete Wilson

thanks keep up the good work

I’m a 19 year old amateur radio operator from Atlanta, GA and my mom is a school bus driver. This video is just perfect and when I was in high school, I’d cringe at the amount of drivers transmitting long, unnecessary traffic. For our exceedingly large district, 10 codes are the way to go and you better be proficient in them even before you start training for your CDL!

I was in the crash

That's the entire issue his first topic is pay and hours he retired and became a bus driver. This job is only catered to retirees. You work 2 hours in the morning and two in the afternoon that's 4 maybe 5 hours a day most places use senority based systems when assigning charters/field trips so the money making opportunities are few when just started out.

I love my job as a bus driver. In my district I have found I get plenty of support, great benefits and the pay is over $30 per hour depending on your experience. I guess I'm lucky.

Had my CDL Class A before and drove OTR semi trucks I did not stick to it due to family issues and someone being sick at that time now years later going for school bus job I mean I'm excited as heck! & the study material is super easy for me lol😅 no factor.Yes I think they need to raise the pay, you cannot complain about driver retention + a shortage if what you pay is low. There seems to be a great opportunity for school bus drivers after a year of good driving through companies like grey hound or city or government passenger bus jobs something to think about. Good luck to everyone!

As a European schoolbus driver it is very interesting to learn about American schoolbusdrivers.

Some folks are naturally 'people persons' who enjoy interacting with others. Other folks aren't, and should have *no* contact with the public. They may be fantastic accountants, actuaries, or computer programmers, but they have no patience to tolerate the public. To quote Bruce Hornsby, "That's just the way it is."

In Canada our problems are similair but Canada is more expensive, so you feel the squeeze more. Also drivers tend to switch to city buses who make 30 something an hour or coach buses who make almost 40 an hour.

Don't get me started. 01) Low pay if you work for a district which includes lack of compensation when school is out for the summer. The same can be said when you work for a bus company when they negotiate their contract with a school district. 02) Low or no accountability from either the school district or the bus company. 03) Attitude of the students and sometimes the administration of the school that ride along on field trips. 04) Excessive amount of training required to drive a school bus from both the state DOT level and the Board of Education level. And these are just a few.

❤❤❤ Now i know i wonder why my son smelled cookies😊 when he got home thanks for your services sir your in my prayers🙏

After 4 years driving school bus, I’m hanging it up. I love the students. But the management and requirements and pressure are too much. The shortage has us more crowded, longer routes, lots of scrambling. Many drivers don’t feel like the admin folks have their backs. I’m gonna miss it. But then again, I’m not.

Thanks for the video I have been an OTR driver in a semi For 20 years. I see I have many new things to learn

Congratulations on season 2, Looking forward to next season, Cheers!

Hey Paul I found you!!!! Thank you for the shout out. I look forward to watching your past videos. I just subscribed to you. Have a great summer break.

Because drivers these days don't pay attention to what the hell they're doing

New subscriber of yours! I’m going into CDL school and looking to possibly add my “S” endorsement. I enjoy working with kids and I already work a full time job but I have no benefits. Some districts offer benefits. But I’m not sure if I can get around my first job schedule

Hey man thanks so much for making this video about school buses shortage i agree with you 💯 percent due to the strict requirements on becoming a school bus driver with the mechanic information that should definitely be out of the test honestly that mechanic job to do that determine what's going on not the school bus driver.lol end of the day school bus driver is driving the kids they are not mechanics if they were they will be Fixing the school buses But all i can say is it got million times worse with the shortage the pandemic people lost all their jobs kids was not be able to go to school but my thing is this the requirements people have to have their driver's license at least three years to order to apply to become a school bus driver which is another reason why what is a shortage in school bus driver industry if they make it at least one year of having your driver's license that would be awesome for people who want to become school bus drivers because not everybody get their driver's license when they turn 18 or 20. The reason why I said that because school bus companies train people to learn how to drive a school bus from scratch sometimes it take 2 months or more. I always wanted to drive school buses right now but the reason why is holding me back due to I have my driver's license for 2 years right now but their requirements are at least 3 years of driving experience with a driver license to order to apply unfortunately. but in Canada their requirements at least one year if united states reduce it to 1 year of having driver license that will be awesome because school bus companies are already training people that will make it more opportunities for people to become a school bus driver. And school bus industry But the pay in your country is so so sad man 20 dollars per hour in salary that so crazy and cruel because person who are 20s or in their 30s fresh out of CDL school will make more money than that in trucking industry and on top of that less experience having a CDL license and a driver's license and on top of that driving a semi truck double with a Class A license but I feel like driving kids school bus drivers should make more bus drivers have more responsibility dealing with kids and disabilities and behavior issues they are human I feel like it unfair for California school bus drivers and others state's in this world and hopefully more school bus drivers can fight to get what they want doing my research this been going on for years with shortage

Why’s this guys talking so weird

A true hero - I hope he is recognized for his deed.

Real mf heroes out here. Get homie a medal fr.

Hell yeah kid!

On your first point, I was one of the lucky kids where the bus had to pass back by on the way out of our neighborhood. We always had 5-10 kids or some years even more who used our stop since we lived on a very long dead end street. The bus driver was always ready to stop on the way back since it was a regular occurrence for someone to have been late for the “official” stop and would get picked up then. Everyone knew if you missed the bus that was the stop to go to since that was one of 3 stops that stopped at a street instead of a house and the only one to get passed twice

The oldest bus I rode was a 1990 bluebird tc 2000 in 2011

Is your electric bus not working

I'm spoiled now all of our sub buses are 2017 or newer All American RE's when I first started they were all early 90's Thomas RE's and MVP's