not even if being chased by the zombies... would I try and cross a washed out road with a fast current cutting across it... but this idiot didn't want to ever be a bus driver again. Anyway, who knew busses floated?

A school bus driver from Bath, Pennsylvania has been arrested after police say she abandoned a bus full of middle and high school students at a gas station

The students on the bus reportedly joked about the poor driving until they realized it began posing a threat as the driver was unable to keep the bus in its lane, and that's when they asked Mankos to pull over.

“The major thing on the ride that threw everybody off was when there was a turn, a right-hand turn, and when she took it, she was going far too fast,” said Mason Persiani, a student on the bus when Mankos was driving. “She ended up being halfway into the opposing lane of traffic."

Mankos reportedly refused to pull over and kept driving. Eventually, video footage taken from the students on the bus shows the driver asking the students if they wanted her to call their parents to pick them up. She shortly thereafter pulled over at a gas station and refused to let the students off the bus.

Students opened the emergency exit at the rear of the bus and began to jump out. It was at that point when Mankos reportedly walked away from the parked bus and handed the keys to an employee at the gas station, but not before flipping off the students and telling them to "go f**k themselves."

Police later charged Mankos with driving under the influence

http://www.thedrive.com/news/26871/angry-school-bus-driver-gives-kids-the-middle-finger-abandons-them-at-gas-station

a Hicks National Safety School Bus demonstrating the roof strength

based on a Chevrolet chassis

http://pogphotoarchives.tumblr.com/image/178008701654

Sure, why not recycle?

https://www.svtperformance.com/threads/random-picture-thread.1159350/page-5

Reported by to be only 1 of 17 Dodge Power Wagon school buses known to exist

https://barnfinds.com/1948-dodge-power-wagon-school-bus/

school bus driver surprised 70 students by getting them Christmas presents

Jenkins has worked for Richardson ISD for seven years and saved money from his paychecks this year in order to buy presents for the students on his daily route. His initial idea was to host a gift exchange, but when his wife Shaneqia pointed out that the kids’s families might not all be able to afford gifts, Jenkins decided to buy each of them what they asked Santa for instead.

"We talked about the things that they would want and I made a mental note of it and wrote it down," Jenkins said.

On the day before Christmas break the 70 gifts were all onboard, including puzzles, electronics and even a bike.

Jenkins, who has worked for Richardson ISD for seven years, said he remembered being the child who didn't get much for Christmas.

"I had an auntie that would buy a pack of socks and she would give us all one pack of socks and wrap it," Jenkins said. "When you're going to school and you have a hole in your socks, that new pair of socks meant something to you."

Jenkins said his work is his calling and he hoped to show each child they have value and are loved.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Richardson-School-Bus-Driver-Surprises-Students-with-Gifts-503420831.html
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-to-do-christmas.html
https://www.facebook.com/LakeHighlandsElementary/photos/a.631045276941766/2126689870710625/?type=3
https://twitter.com/JHubenHawkeye/status/1076250078652841986

two '29 Ford taxi's which have been converted to delivery vehicles by painting over the side windows (homemade sedan deliveries) and a Model AA School Bus with a drivers side door

taken May 25, 1934 in front of the Texas Capitol Building in Austin

the Model A Ford Taxi had the lowest production of all 1929 Model A's other than the Town Car (4,576 vs. 913).
 In fact, Ford made more A-400 Convertible Sedans in 1931 than they made Taxi's in 1929
(4,864 vs. 4,576)

http://forums.aaca.org/topic/207364-vintage-delivery-trucks-on-main-street-usa-a-pictorial/?do=findComment&comment=1086072

been too long since I've shown some love for the COE

https://www.facebook.com/CaravanTurkey/photos/a.548025318638068.1073741825.370468146393787/897774023663194/

10,000-square-foot underground bunker created from 42 school buses entombed in concrete, 35 years ago, is the largest private nuclear fallout shelter in North America

Dubbed “The Ark Two,” the creation, spearheaded by 83-year-old Bruce Beach, sits 15 feet beneath the earth in the rural town of Horning’s Mills just outside of Toronto, Canada

It could accommodate a couple hundred people for several months. The bunker was designed to support a community, equipped with everything from months worth of food supplies to plumbing, a well, kitchen, laundry, library, dentist, nursery, daycare, ER/surgery room, and even a morgue.

Why buses? They were cheap (just $300 a pop) and have reinforced steel roofs, which make for ideal bomb shelter molds.

https://inhabitat.com/man-buries-42-school-buses-to-build-north-americas-largest-nuclear-fallout-shelter/
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-buries-42-school-busses-to-build-the-largest-private-doomsday-bunker-in-north-america.html

a super rare Mercury Aircraft all aluminum bus

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212275615586051&set=a.1493925788617.2070172.1248220299&type=3

today, the news reported the amazingly terrible driving record of that school bus driver responsible for injuring 43, and death of two, due to driving across the median of a New Jersey highway

The 77-year-old school bus driver involved in last week’s fatal New Jersey crash has had his driver’s license suspended 14 times, eight speeding tickets and one citation for an improper lane change.

Six of the suspensions were tied to unpaid parking violations, seven were for administrative and paperwork reasons and one was for driving while his license was suspended.

In addition to the deaths of 10-year-old Miranda Vargas and 51-year-old teacher Jennifer Williamson, there were 43 others injured in the crash of the school bus carrying 38 fifth-grade students and seven accompanying adults.

https://nypost.com/2018/05/22/school-bus-driver-in-deadly-crash-had-license-suspended-14-times/

Other news reports that there is a video of the event, http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/nj_school_bus_accident_weve_seen_the_video_and_bus_drivers_actions_are_inexplicable.html

The long yellow school bus comes into the video frame on the right, slowly making its way down the ramp to I-80 west from Route 206. The driver passes the end of a concrete strip separating the ramp from the interstate. To the left, a dump truck travels down the center lane of the three-lane interstate.

the driver makes a seemingly inexplicable sharp left onto the interstate, darting nearly perpendicularly across the highway.

The driver, a source says, is heading toward a cut-through to the eastbound lanes, the kind used by State Troopers and other emergency vehicles, but occasionally repurposed by motorists making illegal u-turns.

The dump truck swerves to try to avoid the collision, but it's simply not possible. The bus is too long and takes up too much of the highway for a fully loaded dump truck to completely avoid.


Why isn't the entire driving record of a school bus driver checked during the application process?

I get it that what he may have done in the 60s and 70s isn't very relevant to his current driving style... but 14 damn suspensions of his license? That's a clear sign to anyone with half a brain that the person isn't cut out to be a school bus driver responsible for the well being of 4 or 5 dozen kids in rush hour traffic.
a school bus carrying 38 fifth-grade students and seven accompanying adults

some cars are abandoned so long that a tree grows in the engine bay, and needs to be cut out. That's not unusual, it's even expected. But 3 trees boxing in a bus? That's pretty tough

Randy Roeber found the old 1938 Dodge bus in West Bend, Iowa, in a farmer's wooded, overgrown grove amid hundreds of other broken-down automobiles that had been put out to pasture.

"It had been a school bus until 1951," Roeber said. Then it sat forgotten in that grove for 60 years. Trees had grown up around it and through its windows. Roeber had to saw down the trees to get it out. One tree had wrapped around the old bus so tightly, "I had to carve it away from the bumper," Roeber recalled.

Roeber pulled the bus out of the grove in 2011. It took him and his wife, Vicky, their family and friends more than two years before it was ready to show off.

The bus was so rusted he had to come up with new sides made of wood, as well as a new hood. He bought a Dodge truck chassis to put under this bus, and added seats and other interior items from Winnebago.

In the end, he converted a 1938 West Bend Consolidated school district Dodge Superior school bus into an RV. Roeber and his wife drive it around 7,000 miles a year.

With an appearance at the Kansas City car show on the Hot Wheels tour across America in search of a custom car to be the model for a die-cast Hot Wheels toy car, Randy's bus was chosen to compete against 14 other custom cars from across the country.

The Hot Wheels Legends Tour launched from Hot Wheels Headquarters in Los Angeles, and will be making stops at fourteen Walmart stores across the U.S.—including New York, Washington D.C., Kansas City, Nashville, Chicago, Seattle, and Phoenix.

At each event, judges—consisting of members of the Hot Wheels design team, automotive influencers, and Walmart Store Managers—will vote for the car that will be crowned part of the new “Sweet 16”, and the winners from each stop will win an all-expenses-paid trip to the finals at the 2018 SEMA auto show.

The Hot Wheels people aren't just looking for the prettiest cars as they travel across the country, said Tyler Charest, a Hot Wheels die-cast designer. "We are also looking for great Hot Wheels stories."

Hot Wheels continues to value impeccable standards of design and performance—and is searching for vehicles that reflect the passion for ingenuity and creativity.

The next Hot Wheels Legends Tour stop will be in New York/New Jersey on May 19, 2018, at the Walmart Supercenter in Teterboro.

http://whotv.com/2017/06/30/goodguys-bring-5000-vehicles-to-des-moines-only-one-1938-iowa-school-bus/
http://inforum.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=55266038&event=1919003&CategoryID=78068
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article210368404.html
http://www.knfilters.com/blog/hot-wheels-celebrates-five-decades-with-custom-car-contest-and-legends-tour

instead of taking the time to just go on to the next exit, a bad decision was made to u turn in the median, known to everyone to be illegal. For a bus? At 11 am on a freeway on a weekday? Impossible

43 of the 45 people involved were injured, the other two died.

Don't be in a hurry to get into a crash, waste all the time it takes to just go on down the freeway until the next exit

Worst timing of any possible, a New Jersey dumptruck from a ridiculously unsafe trucking company https://nypost.com/2018/05/17/truck-company-involved-in-deadly-school-bus-crash-has-dark-history ran into it. That company had 238 fines and tickets in just the past two years, 1 every 3 days on average for 730 days straight

https://twitter.com/i/moments/997137949341954048?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=6573c8d784794a9090e6bfda077bd855&uid=618592367&nid=244+277221376

FWD school bus near Clovis, New Mexico, 1920.

 The Ranchvale Elementary School, completed in 1919, was the first consolidated school in NM.  It was permanently closed after the 2016 school year.

Thanks Steve!

School Buses from the Strahan Ohio, Consolidated School. Lined up waiting for students at the end of the day on a very muddy street.

The Buses have chains on all four tires, but what good are chains on the front tires? Yeah those muddy ruts indicate that the roads are not prepped, they are just the ground dealing with spring thaw, by the looks of the leafless trees in the background

https://onceuponatown.tumblr.com/post/143509165845/school-buses-from-the-strahan-consolidated-school

The roads were too damn snowy, or, the driver wasn't slow enough. Regardless, no kids were on the bus, and the driver wasn't hurt. Frederick County on route 77 in Catoctin.

https://www.facebook.com/truckershadenoughmagazine/posts/1852115228194897

today, I salute Wisconsin school bus driver Trudy Serres! She crocheted toys for every kid on her route

Wisconsin bus driver Trudy Serres crochets toys for each of the elementary school kids on her route for Summit Elementary School in Oconomowoc.

Whatever they ask for -- no matter how wacky the requests -- they get. She’s done ice cream cones, unicorns, “Star Wars” characters and many more-elaborate, custom designs.

"One day a boy came up to me and said, 'Mr. Stuckey, look at what my bus driver made me!' and he showed me his stuffed animal Trudy had created just for him," Summit elementary school principal Brian Stuckey added. "The boy was so proud and you could tell the pride he had in this little gift. The last few years we have been working to build connections and relationships between our school and our fabulous bus drivers and Trudy has taken that to a whole new level."

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/national/hot-topics/elementary-school-bus-driver-crochets-toys-for-every-kid-on-her-route/553439399
https://www.facebook.com/tserres1

1939 Blue Ridge Virginia, school bus

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelryerson/29165707213/

school busses of India

http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/03/30/the-tin-can-school-buses-of-india/

last month I ran a post, why don't school busses have seat belts. Some said because they are so safe they don't need them. Lemme, ask again... why don't they all have seat belts?

https://www.facebook.com/Swift.Best.In.Crash/posts/1371318016281203

Correction, why don't they all have seatbelts in all the seats. Obviously the woman who is thrown across the middle aisle isn't wearing one, and wow, she is going to have whiplash tomorrow. Looks like she bit her lip too.

Yup, the kids in the row of seats behind her do have seatbelts on, proving my point about seatbelt safety on buses. They need them. Buses aren't inherently safe enough without belts.