Thread: NSW police looking for witnesseses to this

As a semi-retired bus driver I can vouch for how difficult it is to do school runs. When I eased off from full time driving, the company offered me several school runs and I rejected them out of hand, I will continue to do route work and even then the school kids (particularly primary age school kids) who get on the bus are noisy and sometimes difficult to control. I'm afraid I haven't the patience to nursemaid unruly schoolkids. The problem is if you are distracted from driving (as it appears this bloke might have been) YOU THE DRIVER get the blame if you have an accident and kids are hurt. I don't want anything to do with that.

I don`t care if said driver got distracted , Any bus driver in my opinion should be professional with that amount of young or older lives in their control not mentioning anyone else driving on the road with them.

That was just plain dumb and ignorant and i see this every day with any form of vehicle for that .

For example i did a 700 k return country rd trip yesterday and yes how many idiots i saw was un bloody believable .
Not one bloody copper seen oh about half a dozen speed camera`s , So the majority of these people can not maintain speed on a country road and this varied in a 100 k zone they varied from 100 k to 60 k and this was daylight and a clear sunny day at that then you get the tools sit up ya bum in a road construction area , Pass way over posted the limits , Pass on double lines and this was in the day light wait for the trip home

Lets just say the trip home was very frustrating with a camper in tow how many people that don`t know how to drive with head lights coming at them is astounding , I would have counted maybe 25 cars on country single lane roads that as soon as some heads lights were coming at them the brakes would be jammed on and then there were slight curves that were more than capable of being driven at the posted 100 k limit yep brakes jammed on from maybe 9o k to yes 60 k and below.

All these idiots if they suffered night blindness which my partner in her caring voice tried to justify their stupidness Should not be driving of a night simple .

What i`m getting at here is the level of education for new drivers young old or immigrants ever 457 visa holders is just plain poor , Also the government`s (police) are more on revenue raising with safety devices than actually policing the roads and yeah i get it they are understaffed so who`s fault is it (Goverment).

Originally Posted by Ausfree

I'm afraid I haven't the patience to nursemaid unruly schoolkids.

when i was in primary school, most of our drivers didnt have patience either. if we acted up, the driver would open the front door while doing 60. opening the door causes the brakes to lock on. the bus would come to a screeching halt and kids would go flying. once the bus was stopped, the driver would turn around and ask, did someone want to get off? with all the noise, i thought someone wanted to get off. he would close the doors and keep driving with us all silent.

cant do that now days.

Originally Posted by Eevo

when i was in primary school, most of our drivers didnt have patience either. if we acted up, the driver would open the front door while doing 60. opening the door causes the brakes to lock on. the bus would come to a screeching halt and kids would go flying. once the bus was stopped, the driver would turn around and ask, did someone want to get off? with all the noise, i thought someone wanted to get off. he would close the doors and keep driving with us all silent.

cant do that now days.

You are right, you would get the sack if you did that. The rules nowadays are you cannot discipline the kids or raise your voice. The only thing you can do (as one poster has already mentioned) is to stop the bus and wait until the children settle down.

Originally Posted by johntins

I believe you have taken my comments out of context, perhaps deliberately, perhaps not.

Hmm what makes you think I was referring to anything you said? In fact I have no idea what you have said because I have not read anything you have said and if I was referring to anything you said I would have quoted it.

I saw the interview and just commenting my interpretation of what was said nothing more, nothing less.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Hmm what makes you think I was referring to anything you said? In fact I have no idea what you have said because I have not read anything you have said and if I was referring to anything you said I would have quoted it.

I saw the interview and just commenting my interpretation of what was said nothing more, nothing less.

Sorry, thought you were keeping up with the thread. No offence meant.

Unruly kids can certainly be a problem, particularly for a driver on their own.
Kids have to be trained in sensible behaviour on public transport. Parents don't seem to do it much, so it falls on drivers.
On sports days our students are accompanied by teachers and the drivers work for the school and are experienced at handling kids, so the kids quickly learn the score.
Troublemakers are made to sit with the teacher.
If they play up they get banned from the bus next sports day and left at school to do study catch up, so they don't like that.
They usually grow up by about Year 9 and make better choices. Those who don't shape up often end up being expelled.