They will get us around it somehow !! They will tell us to "Pull Over and scan the Kids in that don't have their Id's!"

NYS has a no touch law for electronic devices while operating a vehicle. They can try to scan IDs all they want. We can't touch the device. How will that work. Risk losing your CDL for the DOE
Law enacted June 5,2025

I heard that today when one of us walked into the drivers room she was informed that she was one of the 3 "lucky" drivers whose runs were randomly selected by OPT to participate in this trial fiasco and that all 3 would have to go to Queens in the near future for training. (Company will provide transportation.)

All I can say is, "Good Luck."

The logic of this makes no sense. If they want to see if their child is on the bus simply the GPS on the VIA system is 100 percent enough to see where the bus and where their child is. And to be honest how many parents even use the GPS VIA system, do they think that every parent will check the the system to see if their child scanned on the bus. Majority of the parents who want to know where their child is have air tags for their child. The headache this will cause especially when students lose their ID cards to scan. Wasn't this a bus driving job? Now we gotta be phone techs while driving the bus

Until they stop cars from passing my reds I won't take my eyes off the road.. everyone should do the same

Quote from: faceit on November 16, 2025, 07:29:30 PM...any one of us will have our day in court and win with no issues. PS how come 19A isn't concerned about the safety issue

I'm not sure about that. We have to execute their stupid dumb-ass shit and then take the blame and suffer the consequences when it blows up! Typical.

i for one will be keeping an eye on the children getting on and off the bus and the street traffic around my bus when loading and unloading children I will not be concerned with scanning in or out. I will be damned if I will be fined or fired for this infraction. I will not jeopardize the safety of the children getting on my bus because of their stupidity and ignorance any one of us will have our day in court and win with no issues. PS how come 19A isn't concerned about the safety issue

Quote from: Safety First on November 16, 2025, 04:27:47 AMSo now they are gonna want us to enforce swiping cards to get on and off the bus? Might as well work for the mta at this point smh

Not even. I don't think city bus drivers even give a shit if somebody doesn't pay. They're not getting involved with enforcement and I don't blame them.

So now they are gonna want us to enforce swiping cards to get on and off the bus? Might as well work for the mta at this point smh

And what if a kid gets off the bus without swiping ... and you don't know the name or ID number?