NYS to ask CDL drivers if they want to drive a school bus

[Saltwater60]

I can’t think of a stupider idea. Also what truck driver wants to drive school bus? If you’re an u employed CDL driver right now you suck or are the laziest person on earth. Everyone I talk to can’t find drivers to move goods and these fucking morons are going to ask them to step away from that to drive kids to school? How the hell can this country even operate? We can’t cook, we can’t move goods, we can’t get kids to school. This country is failing.

New York state is trying to persuade more than 550,000 commercial driver's license holders to become school bus drivers amid a crippling shortage

New York also will expedite the commercial driver's license testing process to help tackle its part in a nationwide shortage of school bus drivers.

news.yahoo.com

 

[BuffNiag]

This is what happens when you cancel rent for over a year.

 

[libertysnake]

They are trying to recruit govt plow drivers to drive school buses. What good is a school bus driver if the roads aren’t plowed?

I'll be honest, with the trash being taught in schools non-sciences wise, they're probably better off not learning it.

 

[Saltwater60]

They are trying to recruit govt plow drivers to drive school buses. What good is a school bus driver if the roads aren’t plowed?

Firefighters and police too. She is leading our state. That’s pretty scary. We can’t get goods yet let’s pull those delivering our goods off the roads to drop kids off at school. I’m baffled?

 

[1075tech]

Some schools are paying parents to bring their kids to school.

I want a refund.

Pine bush schools started nearly two weeks late because of a shortage of drivers

 

[Parzival]

You can make a lot more money driving a dump truck vs driving a school bus full of obnoxious kids.

 

[Blimey]

In rochester they are so desperate for drivers I think kids missed first day, then they had the public busses start driving them around.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

They are trying to recruit govt plow drivers to drive school buses. What good is a school bus driver if the roads aren’t plowed?

You're asking them to think more than one day in advance.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Can you just see Podmonkey driving school bus as a side gig? Poor kids.

 

[kev74]

Between the bottom feeders not having to pay rent for a year plus, the old lady bus drivers scared of the chinavirus, parents letting their kids act like animals, and pot being legal so a bunch more won't pass a drug test, nobody should be surprised by the lack of bus drivers.

 

[Podmonkey]

Can you just see Podmonkey driving school bus as a side gig? Poor kids.

$30 bucks an hour with 50 hours per week is what they'd have to give me.

 

[Acer-m14]

hire swift drivers .. what could go wrong ..

 

[spat]

I can’t think of a stupider idea. Also what truck driver wants to drive school bus? If you’re an u employed CDL driver right now you suck or are the laziest person on earth. Everyone I talk to can’t find drivers to move goods and these fucking morons are going to ask them to step away from that to drive kids to school? How the hell can this country even operate? We can’t cook, we can’t move goods, we can’t get kids to school. This country is failing.

New York state is trying to persuade more than 550,000 commercial driver's license holders to become school bus drivers amid a crippling shortage

New York also will expedite the commercial driver's license testing process to help tackle its part in a nationwide shortage of school bus drivers.

news.yahoo.com

I wonder what the ratio of "no" to "fuck no" was in their responses...

 

[Deplorable Me]

Why not train the new democrats coming across the southern border to be CDL bus drivers. Come on man, they came here for the work.

How about the displaced oil pipeline workers....

 

[Jsmegs77]

In many districts, school bus drivers start at $14-$16 an hour and only get 6 hours a day with a big gap mid day. You’d make better money working at Aldi and not have to deal with the literal problem children. Some areas (Binghamton city school district, I think) have been offering $20+ because nobody wants to do it otherwise.

Wife is a school bus driver and has been for the past 8 years. She likes it but we are in a decent district and the buses are run by the district as opposed to an outside contractor. They’ve always had staffing issues though.

Couldn’t get me to do it. I like my cargo quiet and stationary.

 

[Saltwater60]

My friend told me their district has their own bus drivers and they are short bus drivers too. They have a worse shortage on lunch ladies so now they are forcing bus drivers to work and serve lunch. I said I’d quit you can’t make them do that. Many only want limited hours. It’s a great retirement job.

 

[Podmonkey]

My friend told me their district has their own bus drivers and they are short bus drivers too. They have a worse shortage on lunch ladies so now they are forcing bus drivers to work and serve lunch. I said I’d quit you can’t make them do that. Many only want limited hours. It’s a great retirement job.

Retirement part time work is exactly what school bis driving is. You can't support yourself, let alone a family of that kind off income alone.

 

[technicalgadget]

On the plus side, I can use this program to fast track myself to getting my commercial drivers license and drive trucks instead of school buses.

 

[Apeman]

Around me the pay isn't bad. It's the schedule that sucks. Nobody wants to work those hours.

Apparently our school district is also short on cafeteria workers too. That pay does suck.

 

[GOPerfect]

Maybe they should make kids walk a little bit further, change the requirements and the minimum mileage make these fat little kids walk

 

[Cavalry]

On the plus side, I can use this program to fast track myself to getting my commercial drivers license and drive trucks instead of school buses.

Unless I read something wrong the only thing they are doing it waiving the time between permit and roadtest. Its been awhile since I took the roadtest, but I remember having to schedule it, they only did it every week or something and there was a limited amount of slots.

On a side note, as a CDL holder, no one had contacted me looking to see if I wanted to drive. I had a 19A endorsement for probably 20 years, so pretty qualified lol.

 

[tony]

As @BuffNiag and others have mentioned stop all the free give-away nonsense and perhaps more people would go back to work.

What these dems are doing is such nonsense. From the top to the bottom they all have it wrong and are so blind to it...

Maybe a novel idea like the old CCC Camps would work. For those whom have never heard of it try google...

 

[Deplorable Me]

Someone in the City of Buffalo suggested using the National Guard as bus drivers. I say load the little bastards on the bus and off to boot camp.

 

[Apeman]

Other than people not wanting the job another reason for the shortage is covid. They're putting fewer kids on the busses so that they're spread out. That's added addition bus routes for each district

 

[SonOfSun]

I can’t think of a stupider idea. Also what truck driver wants to drive school bus? If you’re an u employed CDL driver right now you suck or are the laziest person on earth. Everyone I talk to can’t find drivers to move goods and these fucking morons are going to ask them to step away from that to drive kids to school? How the hell can this country even operate? We can’t cook, we can’t move goods, we can’t get kids to school. This country is failing.

New York state is trying to persuade more than 550,000 commercial driver's license holders to become school bus drivers amid a crippling shortage

New York also will expedite the commercial driver's license testing process to help tackle its part in a nationwide shortage of school bus drivers.

news.yahoo.com

What's the problem with asking?

Govt; Are you interested in driving a school bus?
CDL holder: No.
Govt; OK, bye.
CDL holder; bye


....and your issue with that is?

 

[SonOfSun]

Maybe they should make kids walk a little bit further, change the requirements and the minimum mileage make these fat little kids walk

Until the district gets sued... because thanks to the last 30 years in this country everyone is a litigious douchebag.

You think paying to bus every kid is expensive? Wait until you have a lawsuit over some kid getting injured or abducted while walking to school.

 

[Bigfoot]

I used to ride my dirt bike to and from school. Except on rainy days. Then my dad took me.
Otherwise I would just get kicked off the school bus again. The bus driver was a jerk. She didn't like me. I was a good kid, but not really... Just sayin'

Is driving a school bus easy work? An easy way to make some additional money?
Do bus drivers have to be vaccinated? Are kids annoying? Asking for a friend.

 

[Saltwater60]

What's the problem with asking?

Govt; Are you interested in driving a school bus?
CDL holder: No.
Govt; OK, bye.
CDL holder; bye


....and your issue with that is?

I have no issue with it other than an employed truck driver won’t leave a $70-$100,000 to drive a school bus. Also what if they do leave and drive a bus? What’s more important Johnny getting to school or Johnny getting fed? Go ask a local farmer and see what they are paying to get goods shipped in and out. Also go ask them how easy it is to find some one to ship the food we need. This is what is scary to me.
Plus all the schools will be shutdown in another month anyway and we won’t need them.

 

[Saltwater60]

I used to ride my dirt bike to and from school. Except on rainy days. Then my dad took me.
Otherwise I would just get kicked off the school bus again. The bus driver was a jerk. She didn't like me. I was a good kid, but not really... Just sayin'

Is driving a school bus easy work? An easy way to make some additional money?
Do bus drivers have to be vaccinated? Are kids annoying? Asking for a friend.

I rode my bike to school everyday until I got my drivers license. If school was open me and my haro racing bike made the trip daily. It was 2+miles. If my parents drove me or I took the bus I couldn’t drink and make out with my girlfriend on the way to school. If I was picked up after school how would we have sex on the way home before her mom got home.
All we need to do is find every kids motivation to make them walk.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

They are trying to recruit govt plow drivers to drive school buses. What good is a school bus driver if the roads aren’t plowed?

Put a plow on the bus and watch the state try to figure out how to ass fuck itself for the bill.