how do i start??

My wife drives for a suburban area, and it is basicly the same. They expect a bus driver to baby sit and drive a 72 passenger bus around in traffic. The way the kids act these days... something has got to give. I have heard of bus drivers smacking kids and going to jail. On the surface, it made me mad that they hit someone else's kid, but after the stories my wife has told me, it don't suprise me. Kids spitting on her, throwing things at her while driving, gropping her. It's not good enough for her to report it, if it isn't caught on the camera, it's like it didn't happen. She has quit three times in the last four years because of the BS she deals with. My son graduates in two months... my daughter in two years. I am going to try to get her to change jobs this summer...

I know you will do fine. Good luck to you Rosalina.

 

I drove schoolbus for a while....I hauled high school kids and they were not too bad. As a driver we did not have very much power when it came to correcting the kids. I do not condone hitting kids to correct them. I do believe that you should be able to tell them to sit down or behave. Now you cannot tell them that, you must submit the bad behavior to the office and they take care of the problem. By correcting a child in front of others you could humiliate the child thereby lowering their self esteem and making more problems for them..... What a Load of Crap. I can remember getting yelled at as a child and I stopped the bad behavior. Kids are so spoiled it isn't even funny. Do parents and authority really believe that this is the way kids should be treated...OMG!

 

I don't think hitting a child is a way to correct them either. I just understand how a driver could "snap" and pop one after months of abuse with no action from the office. The person driving has a family to support and these kids that lack parental guidance are making thier life miserable.

If they had public canings of the parents of the kids that act like that... it may have an impact on how these kids act. I wouldn't want to too see a child get spanked or thier feelings hurt. Maybe hit the parents with a fine too.

We put our kids in a private school after my wife drove the bus for the high school. It has put a financial strain on us, but it is worth it. There are consequences to the kids bad behavior at that school.

The schools started going down hill when they took Prayer out of the school.

 

Why do all you guys want to go "over the road"???? OTR sucks it dosen't pay well at all. If I was new and had a CDL B, I would get a job driving a dump truck, a concrete mixer, or a roll-off container truck. The pay is decent, you get paid by the hour for all your hours, and if you hook up with the right company you will get in a union (probably Teamsters) and enjoy hourly pay and a good health benifit plan.

 

Please change post to ----- slapping kids for a living....the ins and outs

 

why thank you..............i "try my best"..........(most times)..............

 

Speak for yourself and not others. My next check is FOr $3800, it was supposed to be $4500 but I got cheated out of my second west coast run. I'm a company driver too. You can keep your union. SHow me a concrete mixer that will make that and I'l sign on tomarrow