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The following letter was sent to me recently ( July,2002 ) from a driver that requests to be unnamed. After reading the letter it will be obvious why this person asked not to have their name used.
It is hard to imagine that contractors like this are still in business, but they are, and will continue to be until drivers, parents and boards of education make their concerns known and demand that safety rules are strictly adhered to.
As long as town's and companies put dollars ahead of safety, the types of misconduct outlined in the letter will become more and more commonplace
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Comment:
" The big problem I have at my company is when there is something wrong
with a bus we find on a pre-trip inspection, and it could affect the safety of
our students, like the sos lights being out, a turn signal not working, etc. We
are told to take the bus anyways. I refuse when this happens to me, then the
dispatcher begrudgingly gives me another bus, and hands the bus I just reported
to another driver and tells them to take it until someone does.
The last problem I have is that all of their route sheets are incorrect, so when
you send a new driver out, a driver who doesn't know the route, they will most
definitely get lost because the route sheet is so very wrong, and it is
distressing for the children to be pulled over because we don't know where we
are, and the radio signal cannot reach dispatch in certain towns we drive, and
we are asking kindergarteners where their stops are, and the company has known
the sheets have been wrong for 8 months, they will not correct them, even when
we drivers have sat down and written them out correctly, they refuse to make new
ones".
End of letter
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