This isn't the Via GPS. This is the on-board GPS unit on the bus.

So what do you think???

Quote from: Golfnut on November 30, 2025, 04:42:39 AMI give Thanks for you ! I appreciate you doing this page !

Thank you! It has always bugged me. Depending on the topic, anywhere fromm 100 to 200 will view a post. But not one-tenth of them add to the discussion. Oh well ...

Quote from: WhatBusToday on November 29, 2025, 06:12:38 PMBuzz buzz happy Thanksgiving

Thank you!

Thank you. You are the only one of over 130 who viewed my greeting to respond!

For that matter, there are people you pass in the drivers room or yard that won't even say hello.

More times than not I feel the windshield glare makes it impossible to see a wave on the part of either driver. Or, it's not a good time to take my eyes off the road just to see if somebody waved back.

I don't really care ... as long as it's not the one finger wave.     

Quote from: WhatBusToday on November 23, 2025, 07:17:04 PMI can't tell you how many times just in general I'm at a stop sign waiting to go and here forms a a school bus from Pionner or IC and no consideration to stop help let me go, they just go right on by lol...young and old drivers

Unfortunately that's true. I try for the most part to extend a courtesy  .... except for scab companies. But there are times you try to let the other person go and they just don't get it.

Quote from: Safety First on November 23, 2025, 06:41:28 AMAlways remember when lifting heavy objects use your back not your legs 

That's great advice but I make the fat kids get on the bus on their own.     

Some of you are apparently unaware of an "old-tyme," unwritten rule of the road for CDL drivers whether it be truck or bus.

If an oncoming vehicle flashes their bright lights at you it means they are giving you the right-of-way. Whether it's to make a left turn in front of them, to pull out of a street or driveway, to tell you it's okay to change lanes in front of them on the highway or whatever.

They are yielding to you! They are telling you to go first, they are letting you go ahead of themselves. Capeesh?

School buses show their gratitude by turning on their flashing yellows for a couple of seconds. MTA buses will flash their 4-ways to say thank you and tractor-trailers will either do that or flash their marker lights to acknowledge the courtesy.

I thought this was common knowledge, but not so. Take it from me! I'm semi-professional!    

Quote from: sbdriver1 on November 20, 2025, 03:20:02 AMAnd they'll probably have to go back.

I think they're going to try to have a class in Staten Island. You can get to OPT from any other borough in an hour or less ... NOT Staten Island. But in all these years, OPT still hasn't learned.

WhatBusTpday and PROUD MEMBER your are both correct. The COVID layoff  compounded the problem even more. There simply aren't enough drivers! I don't know why that's so hard for PEP members and parents to understand.

I've seen posts on Facebook from smaller school districts around the country that have actually had to close schools on some days because they did not have enough drivers. What would those finger-pointers say then???

https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/11/20/panel-for-educational-policy-approves-three-year-school-bus-contract/


https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-school-bus-deal

Quote from: PROUD MEMBER on November 20, 2025, 12:13:56 PMI heard that they got a three year contract
Does anybody have confirmation of that?

I heard the same thing on the radio driving in to work this morning.

About 5 of our drivers had to take a van to LIC for diabetes training. It took them so long to get there the class was over by the time they arrived.

Unreal.