Hard time finding bus drivers

have you looked at city bus drivers?

 

I hope I never have to look at one.

 

Heck, do you ever look around at the other truck drivers in a truck stop?

 

Passengers, or walk-on freight, are demanding and hard to please. Plus legalized pot means the pool of clean drivers is shrinking. Raise the pay until you have all the drivers you need.

 

Or Chineses or Serbian or Somali or Russian.

 

Passengers are always complaining. "I'm hot, I'm cold, I'm on fire..." I don't need that.

 

At roughly 12 hours drive time between the two points, plus several stops, how does one driver complete the trip and then do you pay for layover?

 

Before driving, I worked in Retail.

I'm now in a situation where I don't deal with the ####### public and I like it that way.

 

Are we there yet? Im thirsty. I gotta go. My kid is sick. etc etc etc etc.

My personal favorite? Driver has to dig out a passenger whose fare expired at Raleigh but now we are in Charlotte on a saturday night with the whole city closed up tight until Monday Am. (Bankers town) Spend 20 minutes telling dum dum to get off that bus. (I wont, I cant, this place is a dump, where do etc etc etc etc.)

Lord knows I never will be a coach driver, even at a million dollar annual salary. It's not worth it. Why? Because when someone finds that last nerve and grinds same... the whole bus including the company that owns it now has a very big problem.

 

If busses were set up like a cattle truck I would do it. Be kinda fun zapping a punk downer!