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14362 messages, Last post on Nov 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM
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Replying to: jensad (Nov 15, 2009 10:41 am) Bus drivers are human and sometimes make mistakes (hopefully few). Here in NY there are phone numbers on the back of all school buses that you can call for complaints of a serious nature. The supervisor will call the driver in for an explaination. Unfortunately, every joker with a cell phone calls to make bogus complaints which dilutes the impact of the real ones. Once a call came in that a driver was driving down the road with "a knife, a gun and a bottle of booze". Another driver, a farmer who had an old injury on his hand was called in to explain the multiple complaints about him "giving the finger" to motorists who didn't like his broken knuckle. You mention cars running stop signs. That is our number 1 problem. It's so bad that we have the kids stand on the bottom step and look right down the side of the bus before they get off in case someone is trying to run the reds on the shoulder. The other day I was signaling for a left turn. the car coming the other way was also signaling for a left. She slowed down and I started to make my left also. Suddenly she turned off her directional and gunned it right at me. I barely got out her way in time. When I finished my run she had called in to my supervisor and said I was speeding, driving recklessly and tried to run her off the road. She of course refused to leave her name. 
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Replying to: jensad (Nov 15, 2009 10:41 am) 40 in a 65, sounds like home 
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Nov 15, 2009 3:58 pm) As long as the supervisor has a sense of reasonable and right and wrong, that's a great idea. I was behind our local district's bus after dropping something off at school for my kid. I got behind the bus and it stopped to drop kid and no flashing lights on rear. The stop sign on left side of driver came out with flashing lights on it. I knew the local school board office number since my wife used to work for them. They transferred me to the bus barn supervisor. Meanwhile the driver made another stop and lights didn't work either. Bus guy said the driver had to be activating the lights or the stop sign wouldn't have come out. He was going to call the driver to let him/her know. I knew the local number. I saw the missing red lights flashing as a safety hazard. I also knew the bus was going to be running the rest of that route of dropoffs and go to an elementary after a few minutes and pick up another full bus of elementary kids. I suspect the bus got switched for one of the spares after completing the high school route using emergency flashers to flash brake lights on rear. We have had many accidents in the area with people crashing into school buses during the last 3 years. Usually they have kids on board when it happens.
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Nov 16, 2009 6:09 am) That's the kind of thing the phone # was ment for. I have to check 161 items every time I take the bus out. If something doesn't work I have to get it fixed. Still, a fuse can blow any time and make the bus unsafe. I for one would not mind a call like you made. "...people crashing into school buses..." We have that too. Usually they say they "didn't see" the 30 foot long bright yellow bus with all the lights flashing. Most often the police find a cell-phone still turned on in their cars. Once we had a bus going through a trailer park with speed bumps every 50 feet so you know the bus was going pretty slow. Some clown in a suped-up beater was showing off for his girlfriend who was on the bus. He hit one of the bumps so hard he launched his car into the air and jammed it all the way under the rear axle of the bus. When the police arrived this joker claimed that the bus was doing 60 and had slammed on it's brakes.
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Replying to: fintail (Nov 15, 2009 4:21 pm) But I do remember other officers who mentioned citing school bus drivers for speed, and not following red light protocol when escorting children across the streets ect. And if there was an school bus accident, the CHP investigated the t/c. But I am sure it is different in other states. Good luck to all and have a wonderful week end. jensad |
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Ok so I head out one nice crisp Saturday morning. I get on the interstate with very light traffic and set my cruise control and head down the road in the far right lane of a three lane interstate. Well I slowly ,very slowly, approach a pickup truck in front of me. Now mind you traffic is very light and we are the only two cars for some distance before or after us. So I signal and merge into the center lane to pass this guy (admittedly slowly). While I am in the middle of this pass some guy flies up behind us rather fast and tailgates me. Still no traffic for at least a quarter mile in front of us and none for almost a half mile behind us, just us three. But this clown just sits on my rear end looking frustrated that I am holding him up. Now I have to wonder if he was in such a hurry why didn't he use the left lane and pass us as it was completely empty.
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Nov 22, 2009 10:22 am) 101-Year-Old Man Buys a 426-Horsepower Camaro (NY Times)
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Replying to: 210delray (Nov 06, 2009 9:34 am) Did your son get a police report? My 2000 Intrepid's hit-and-run is being covered by the uninsured motorist clause. I did get a police report, though. Maybe that's the difference? Also, I guess they might handle things differently in Cali, versus Maryland?
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 22, 2009 11:06 am) |
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 22, 2009 11:06 am) LOL I love that 101. And I thought I was too old to buy a sporty car. I wonder if that guy was the ex-boxer that snake duked it out with a while back. Got to watch those 101 year-olds, they can cane you pretty bad. 
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