LEARNING a New Bus Route Tips & Hints

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This episode of School Bus Talk discusses tips and hints for drivers learning new bus routes. The tips are: 1) Use a passenger vehicle on dry run training rather than a school bus; 2) Take notes and record run times; 3) Check out stops especially where you may have to perform an escort stop; 4) Resolve questions on the route with the dispatcher before doing the route the first time for real; and 5) Plan for something to go wrong.
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@michaelf28027 6 месяцев назад

I have used the same route sheets before. I would highlight the turn (left or right) and the street name only in one color highlighter. The stop address I would highlight in another color. The passenger count for the stops would be circled. A post it note I use as a guide for the next stop/turn and move down as I complete it. I make notes in the margin such as corner stop, color of mailbox, etc. to better identify stops until I've mastered the route.

@SchoolBusTalk 6 месяцев назад

Those are excellent tips!

@miketaylor9969 Месяц назад

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

@dlight2669 Месяц назад

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.

@SchoolBusTalk Месяц назад

Thank you for the nice comment. I appreciate you. That's Boo Boo the cat. She's a little wild. She was found as a kitten abandoned in the park and we rescued her.

@jasonrodgers9063 11 дней назад

Retired bus driver here. I'd always do my practice runs in the BUS, to check for other factors, like sharp turns, low overhead clearance, etc. My last year, I was given a RR crossing between 2 parallel roadways that was shorter than the length of my bus! The automated route lists we were given resulted in a "meltdown" on day one that made the national news! (Louisville, August 2023). Because I tossed out their idiotic list and made my OWN (with my knowledge of the area) I was back at the compound by 6:20 PM, while the last kid in our district didn't get home until almost 10 PM!!!

@SchoolBusTalk 10 дней назад

@@jasonrodgers9063 nice comment. Yes, local knowledge of roadway conditions is important. OMG you were involved in the Louisville AI routing cluster basket!?! That made the national transportation news. Please share more about your experience. I am lucky. I work for an outfit were the dispatchers are all experienced drivers with familiarity with local conditions. My outfit’s dispatchers also listen to driver suggestions and make appropriate changes. I am going to do a video on “pick up vs drop off” this season. I appreciate you. Thanks for the comment.

@jasonrodgers9063 10 дней назад

@@SchoolBusTalk It cost me 12 unpaid hours the Sunday before "Day One" in order to craft my proper list, but it was well worth it to NOT be part of the "cluster F" that first day. My bus radio was wall-to-wall with drivers calling in to the office for directions. In past years, routing was done "in house". Most route lists (we call them "Lefts & Rights" or, also, "Lefts & WRONGS") would be 4-6 pages. The one I was given by the absurd A-I consulting firm was 60+ pages(!) and about 3/8" THICK! I didn't run it past my boss, I just DID IT. He trusts me, and he had WAY more stuff to mess with than to worry about something that a driver can fix on their own. Plus, my retirement paperwork had been "in the pipeline" since June, (retirement date Oct. 1st) so my "give a damn" factor was pretty low!

@SchoolBusTalk 10 дней назад

@@jasonrodgers9063 thanks for sharing that compelling story. A human brain with local knowledge still beats an AI algorithm.

@ritarodriguez480 28 дней назад

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

@SchoolBusTalk 28 дней назад

Exactly!!

@Snookscat 12 дней назад

I’m glad to know there are other routing systems that give ridiculous travel times, lol. I wish they could program that better, realizing we can’t go the maximum speed limit on every road, with no traffic and no red lights on the way. We don’t always have the traffic yielding to us like transit busses, pedestrian crossings, etc. I’d also love it if they’d allow a 5 minute early arrival at school to give a little cushion on higher traffic or bad weather days. I’d rather be a few minutes early and talk to the kids, go over emergency exit procedures, or just chat about what’s happening that day, on most days. Then I’m at least not late on bad traffic days, instead of feeling rushed all the time. Then pretty much only a breakdown or rainstorm/snowstorm can hold us back. 😊

@SchoolBusTalk 12 дней назад

Yes that’s right about routing programs not considering road and traffic delays when creating computer schedules. My preference is to be right on time for morning pick up, or just a little late (one minute). Drop off is another matter. I find that the key to afternoon drop off schedule is departing the first school on time, and that’s a mostly a function of whether the children load on-time or are tardy getting on the bus. I find if you start late, then that lateness just cascades into the remainder of the route. 5 minutes late becomes 10 minutes late, which just compounds so that by the end of the route you are 25 minutes late. The other thing about drop off is when some parents expect an exact time that you will be dropping off their children. That makes me laugh: afternoon drop off all depends on traffic flow, road construction and student behavior. I tell parents “drop off times are highly variable” and I do my best to be on-time but many factors are out of my control.