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

One of our buses had a shattered sun visor one time... I can only imagine how that came to pass 😖🤕

@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

I think we watched the same video

Not sure, I've been doing training mostly for the school bus job, not so much driving. I'm on the lookout for opportunities

@@yitznewton so are you still with first student

Yes, it's a 6-speed Allison automatic

Thanks! 👍🏾

No, these just control the flow of air, they don't change based on whether the engine is running.

@@yitznewton oh right! What do you think the problem could be? Control module?

No idea, sorry

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.

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At the time I filmed this, we were specifically assigned something like 6 angle spaces in the north wing 4th floor, so we didn't have that option. Since then they took away those spots when DeCamp eliminated their line runs, and we are relegated to the basement

Except for the ones with hydraulic brakes

Yep, same engine as Powerstroke 6.0

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You're a risk to public with that attitude. This guy is a better driver than 95 percent of Atlanta drivers.

​@yitznewton wasn't meant towards you, meant more toward the commenter

No, only PABT and the downtown line

Yes

Commercial vehicle life

@@yitznewton yeah haha but also knowing they have a bunch of buses going through there eveyday you’d think they change it or sowmthing or maybe it’s never been an issue with accidents haha

Most of my trips are extra-capacity trips, so for one thing I am not anyone's everyday driver, and for another my bus is usually unscheduled, and the scheduled bus will be along soon after mine. So the short answer is, I don't have to deal with that on my commuter trips. On the other hand, on my school bus runs, when I was doing a regular route, I sometimes had stragglers. I let them know I'm not waiting around past the official time for their stop. In some cases it would have been impossible to wait, since some stops were in the middle of a busy street at an intersection with nowhere to pull over anyway.

Yeah, live streaming with my setup doesn't work perfectly

@@yitznewtonwait why doesn’t it work properly

@@yitznewtonis it cause of too many people watching or something

We made it up to 58mph. That may be this bus's governed top speed, I'm not sure

When I personally do that run it usually leaves Rockaway at 6:40. We have a number of other times as well. Full time drivers usually do 2 circuits a day. Senior drivers often choose back to back (e.g. going into NYC at 5am and 11am), and the less senior drivers are stuck with a split shift: one morning and one evening rush.

@@yitznewton Thank you for the information. I often wondered how many trips drivers make into Port Authority.

Look again, 0:23 The 300 got the DT engine

The only one I have access to is the science explorer bus that I did a while back

Ours is pretty basic, no automated cash handling or scanning of customer devices. You sign in with the route info, select current zone as you drive, and it keeps count of tickets and cash collected. The interface is a little dated and hard to navigate like an old printer, but it's not too complicated. It helps that our lines don't have all that many stops.

@@yitznewton ok thank you so much I really appreciate your response.