Howdy! I hold a New Jersey CDL Class A with all endorsements. I currently operate school buses and motorcoaches in northern New Jersey. My goal with this channel is to share as much of the experience, in as many vehicles, as possible with you all.
I could apply to work for them; I believe they have their own training program I'd need to go through. As far as I know they only hire full timers, and new hires get stuck with the poo routes
Great video. Do you recall there being any other symptoms other than the clicking? And what made you sell your prius? Cause I'm thinking of doing the same lol
I would also like to be a school bus driver but there is only one small problem I am from Mexico but you never know maybe someday I will go to the United States I have always seen that working as a first student is very well paid and has a very good working environment but until that day comes I will continue to watch videos about everything related to this topic.
God dam! Semi fire! hope the driver(s) and everyone involved was okay, and of course the shi* had to be right near the F***en NJ Turnpike oh man! looks like he lost control veered left? terrible man. Shi*!
I assume this is auto-transmission, if so - Prior to a steep curve or downgrade do you have to put your foot on the service brake and hold in order to downshift to say gear 1 or 2? or is that not even necessary and do you simply just shift the gear shifter into a lower gear? thanks! & this town looks kind of nice during autumn.
The commuter coaches work like you describe, there's an engine brake that comes on when you apply the service brake, and the transmission selects 2nd gear. The school buses, you can manually select a lower gear, but it's usually not necessary unless it's a long downgrade
Boy, Manhattan is a *itch to drive in a car much less a CDL vehicle, I lived in Queens for 27 years I've been living in the Midwest now the way in which people drive in NYC and pretty much everywhere is a stark difference and I'm going for my Class B with S & P endorsements rightnow glad it isn't in NYC lol. NJ sucks too, especially Holland tunnel traffic and some parts of New Ark always never ending construction there lol.😅
One nice thing about driving a bus over a car in NYC is that you have a great vantage point. These downtown runs take us down 7th Ave around 7:15-7:45 which is not too bad... the second run is 30 minutes later and that much worse. Holland Tunnel inbound is just nightmare fuel.
@yitznewton Yeah I mean if it isn't rush hour it's construction, holiday or event traffic I remember sometimes from Manhattan to New Ark it would take 30 min on smooth free flowing traffic & on traffic it would take 1 hour plus. Constant stop n' go lol.
2004 Prius here... got a clicking, sounds like the vent to left of MFD. Only occurs occasionally, and can never get it to happen when parked. :( cycle through all the modes, no clicks, no issues. Finally nailed it down to when center vent used, either center only or center+foot. Air does flow, but I guess vent just can't find it's position. Odd. After seeing this video, gonna try to see what's up thx!
LOL I was driving commuter service to downtown NYC this morning and was fixated on the NEXT intersection... I was entering THIS intersection when I saw the light was red 🚦🛑 I didn't run it... completely... 😅
I feel your pain with the broom. I hate being in different buses because every time there’s either a wild broom or even a wild squeegee in the isle that you don’t see if your clumsy when coming in at 5:30am
One of the buses I drove had a broken sunvisor that you had to rubber band on the student mirror so it would stay on and I done tripped on that and almost busted my head open on the seat
@yitznewton Shattered sun visor is an immediate out of service here. The bus I drove on a after school run today had a whole ultimate squeegee with a normal squeegee end, but a long ass broom stick on the squeegee
When we get one I'll drive it; I haven't heard anything about when that might be. We got several brand-new CE's about 2 years ago, since then we've been getting used buses
I usually have 30-45 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday mornings, which is when I generally drive. There are 57 seats. My runs are overflow runs; sometimes the primary buses do get to capacity or standees.
