Deplorable Me
.700 Nitro Express
What happened to walking to school up hill in a snow storm 5 miles barefoot?
NYS to ask CDL drivers if they want to drive a school bus
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What if they do decide to? That should be their choice. More choices are always good. I highly doubt many would, but that should be up to them.
Why do you, me , or anyone else get to decide what is more important for that truck driver? Your employment is your choice, not a community vote. If they choose to go that path, that's their right. If you, me, or anyone else doesn't like it, oh well... that's just a sad day for them.
If that's the case prices for food will just go up. People will always want to buy food. It's not like everyone can protest and stop eating for a month, if they have to pay more for truck drivers the cost will just be passed on through the supply chain and end buyer. That's how supply and demand works, if the supply is short then prices go up which will cause more people to take up that work to capitalize on the higher pay until an equilibrium point is met.
Can be scary, I get that. Also, you don't know schools will be shutdown in a month, that's pure speculation. It's possible, like basically anything in life, but far from certain.
Try $50,000-65,000. To get into six figure territory you need to be an owner-op and guess what? After they pay all their overhead they take home around $70,000 or so on average.
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
here ya go CDL training school ..
spat
.700 Nitro Express
Not sure that lawsuit would go anywhere.
Otherwise anytime any kid got hurt anywhere they would have been "on their way to school".
They're not *required* to take the bus now.
Or, we could, I don't know, fix the fucking tort system.
SCOTUS should eliminate all immunity for government agents, and you'd see that shit fixed fast.
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IraIII
.40 S&W
Here you go 90k 6 days a week home every night Rochester NY to Harmony PA and return
CDL Class A Driver for Dedicated Postal Route – Home Daily -...
Midwest Transport, Inc. is one of the largest transportation contractors associated with the United States Postal Service. A truckload carrier with a national presence, operating in every...
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I don't disagree about the tort system, just pointing out why they bus every kid nowadays. Even the cost of defending a lawsuit you win can be enormous. My guess is they did a risk analysis and determined paying to bus every kid was the likely cheaper option.
spat
.700 Nitro Express
I bet they heard from a couple of their neighbors and found out that parents wanted kids bussed, and that taxpayers would foot the bill.
I doubt they factored lawsuits into it.
These are local school boards, not fortune 500 corporations.
Saltwater60
.950 JDJ
Possibly for all CDL drivers. I know of plenty of over the road or long haul drivers that make more. Walmart store manager told me they are starting them at $95k now.
That's a fairytale inflated figure. That is an overly optimistic highball estimate based on a driver traveling tge maximum distance allowed under the hours of service regulations. It does not take into account delays at shippers/receivers, traffic, construction, weather, breakdowns or delays in getting dispatched onto new loads. It also doesn't account for hometime. At a $.62 per mile rate I could probably hit 85k a year if I drove 620 miles a day every day, every week month after month. In reality that just isn't possible. You strive for a 500 mile per day average and even that is not possible sometimes, particularly in the Northeast.
I would say for a really on the ball, well paid OTR driver 70k per year is realistic. But you bust your balls for that. I'm paid $27 an hour, straight time. I'm home everyday and off on tge weekends. I average about 55 hours per week and I'm doing 60k a year. That is pretty typical.
Catskillkid
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Uphill, both ways, in the snow, just like the old days.
If
That is technically possible if the school were situated at the bottom of a valley.
byron
.308 Win
Just got this email from dmv
Dear
This school year, a nationwide school bus driver shortage has negatively impacted the beginning of the school year for many school districts in New York State.
As a current or former CDL holder, you may be qualified to serve your community as a school bus driver this school year. Given the shortage this year, many districts are offering signing bonuses, retention bonuses and other incentives to attract drivers.
If you are interested in helping the children of your community, please fully complete DMV’s School Bus Driver Candidate Survey.
If you are already serving your community as a school bus driver, please disregard this email and thank you very much!
Thank you,
New York State DMV
Dear
This school year, a nationwide school bus driver shortage has negatively impacted the beginning of the school year for many school districts in New York State.
As a current or former CDL holder, you may be qualified to serve your community as a school bus driver this school year. Given the shortage this year, many districts are offering signing bonuses, retention bonuses and other incentives to attract drivers.
If you are interested in helping the children of your community, please fully complete DMV’s School Bus Driver Candidate Survey.
If you are already serving your community as a school bus driver, please disregard this email and thank you very much!
Thank you,
New York State DMV
me tooJust got this email from dmv
Dear
This school year, a nationwide school bus driver shortage has negatively impacted the beginning of the school year for many school districts in New York State.
As a current or former CDL holder, you may be qualified to serve your community as a school bus driver this school year. Given the shortage this year, many districts are offering signing bonuses, retention bonuses and other incentives to attract drivers.
If you are interested in helping the children of your community, please fully complete DMV’s School Bus Driver Candidate Survey.
If you are already serving your community as a school bus driver, please disregard this email and thank you very much!
Thank you,
New York State DMV
Saltwater60
.950 JDJ
I love it you maybe qualified to serve your community.Just got this email from dmv
Dear
This school year, a nationwide school bus driver shortage has negatively impacted the beginning of the school year for many school districts in New York State.
As a current or former CDL holder, you may be qualified to serve your community as a school bus driver this school year. Given the shortage this year, many districts are offering signing bonuses, retention bonuses and other incentives to attract drivers.
If you are interested in helping the children of your community, please fully complete DMV’s School Bus Driver Candidate Survey.
If you are already serving your community as a school bus driver, please disregard this email and thank you very much!
Thank you,
New York State DMV
So what are you going to do?
Jsmegs77
.308 Win
I just got the same thing. No thanks.
byron
.308 Win
worked for a school district as a mechanic for a few years and was licensed and certified drove maybe 4 or 5 times as a Sub that was enough for me.
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
i agree ,... any lawsuit would fail .. look at all the parents that drive there kids to school .. so if in a auto accident the school is at fault .. no way ..
Dear XXXX,
This school year, a nationwide school bus driver shortage has negatively impacted the beginning of the school year for many school districts in New York State.
As a current or former CDL holder, you may be qualified to serve your community as a school bus driver this school year. Given the shortage this year, many districts are offering signing bonuses, retention bonuses and other incentives to attract drivers.
If you are interested in helping the children of your community, please fully complete DMV’s School Bus Driver Candidate Survey.
If you are already serving your community as a school bus driver, please disregard this email and thank you very much!
Thank you,
New York State DMV
Same here.
Saltwater60
.950 JDJ
On Boston mass apparently kids had to ride in a party bus with a stripper pole and neon lights die to the driver shortage. Now I’m not sure how the driver shortage leads to a party bus but hey. I thought we may get a laugh at it.
Boston students ride party bus with stripper pole, neon lights amid driver shortage
A group of high school students in Massachusetts had to ride on a party bus complete with a stripper pole and neon lights during a recent field trip — an experience their teacher said highlights pr…
www.wivb.com
Cavalry
.308 Win
I got my email last night as well. The only advantage to this I see is if someone let their CDL lapse in the last two years it appears they are willing to let you have it back. That is what I gathered by running through the online form anyway.
STS556
.223 Rem
I got the email too. I have a class A with hazmat and tanker. Like I am going to give up my Teamster job that I have had for close to 25 years to make $300 a week to drive a school bus.
But it's for "the children".
Madmallard
.223 Rem
My sister drives cross country and right now is making $ 80,00.00 as a company driver for a company out of North Dakota. She's been driving cross country for years.
Deplorable Me
.700 Nitro Express
I wonder if I can borrow a hay wagon and tractor from my uncle?
Saltwater60
.950 JDJ
I hope you’re making good money since they are practically begging for you to show up to work right now.
Russ Woody
.45 acp
According to my wife that works with all them little bastards, that's not NEAR enough.
Truebeliever
6.5 Creedmoor
If it’s such an emergency, then send in Uber drivers-lol
I know a few retired cops who said before they retired they would work as school bus drivers as a retirement job. I’d rather stay working full time than do that.
I know a few retired cops who said before they retired they would work as school bus drivers as a retirement job. I’d rather stay working full time than do that.
Roger that. Only thing worse is painting.
kev74
20×102mm Vulcan
Are we supposed to start calling bus drivers "heros" now?