Family and Friends....
What you see here happens... More often then what you would ever imagine...
As a Safety Trainer, Operations Director and General Manager for Durham Transportation and The Texas Schools for the Deaf back in Texas I had to respond to scenes like or similar to this....
So many lives are impacted when such a senseless act of unsafe driving happens when School Buses are involved in Traffic Accidents,
So many times the driver of the Bus was/were tried to be laid to blame... YOUR DAMN BUS DRIVER.. DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE... I heard that so many time.... Rest assured, If that driver had not completed a thorough training program, passed a Commercial Driving Test given by the state which they are expected to drive in they would not have been behind the wheel of that bus...
Keep in mind, if you will, when you see a School Bus driving down the road, try to remember that the driver of that Bus is not only making sure that they are driving that bus SAFELY. but they are doing it while controlling up to 71 KIDS who have been penned up in a classroom for the last 6 to 7 hours and have now been set FREE. AND THE DRIVER IS DOING SO VIA A MIRROR ABOVE THEIR HEAD WHILE DRIVING!!!!.. That's Kids from the age of 4 to the age of 18 MIXED.
So next time you see a School Bus on the road... IMAGINE YOURSELF AS THAT DRIVER.... AND GIVE THEM THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE.... BECAUSE... I JUST ABOUT BET YOU WOULDN'T EVEN DARE THINKING ABOUT HAVING THAT JOB!!!!
If by chance YOU ARE A SCHOOL BUS DRIVER...
Bless you and Thank You...
IF YOU FEEL THAT SAFETY AROUND SCHOOL BUSES ARE IMPORTANT...Please pass this on to others...
John Glass
