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IC-RE
Top Member
USA
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 Posted - 02/22/2005 : 3:14:55 PM
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Just curious, at night, where do you all park your buses? In my county the drivers can either take them to the garage compound, home with special permission, city bus parking lots, county vehical lot (ambulances, fire trucks, public buses, cop cars) and very few are kept at the schools.
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Jake
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/22/2005 : 3:35:29 PM
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In Jefferson County, it is manditory you bring your bus back to the bus compound. Not just any bus compound, the one the bus came originally from. Then, certain buses part in certain spots, sub buses in the sub buses spot, regualar route bus in the regualr route spots, ect. It is very hard to keep track because their is over 1,200 buses in my district. I know, some buses (our 1989 Blue-Bird Fords, and 1989 GMC Ward Mini-buses are assigned to different High schools for the high schools needs.
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78fordwayne
Top Member
USA
2868 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2005 : 3:47:49 PM
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| Some of the drivers by me park there buses at home. It seems only the senior drivers are aloud to do that here. But about 98% of them are parked in the schools lot. |
Robert B.
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1983WardFord
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/22/2005 : 3:50:32 PM
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| We have a compound where we are supposed to park our buses--nowhere else! Spots there aren't assigned, partially because of the screwed-up way the lot is set up. A few of our perfect-attendance drivers have their own spots, though, while others have a spot or an area they like the best. |
Due to the current economic condition, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off until further notice. |
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kd4jfd
Top Member
USA
1168 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2005 : 4:05:06 PM
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| In my driveway. It's ~3.5 miles to my first stop and it would be more than 15 miles to the bus shop. |
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IC-RE
Top Member
USA
4117 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2005 : 4:05:40 PM
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| with over 1600 school buses, and three garages (compunds) our system is CRAZY! In the summer's we are frequently losing buses, not actually losing them but forgetting whre they were parked at the end of the school year. Last year, my driver said that she spent 5 days looking for her 2002 IC RE because the county failed to mention to her that her bus was rented out over the summer to day camps and pre schools. here, your bus is your bus and no one elses. If you change your route, your bus goes with you. With the older buses they are parked in the same lots as the newer buses, and are not organized. they are mixed in with special ed. and you are responsible for your own bus, and where it is parked. I am not sure if you are allowed to park somewhere else without permission though. |
 bus 1980, a 2008 IC RE 300 for Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, Virginia. |
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coolbusdriver
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Canada
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Posted - 02/22/2005 : 4:14:30 PM
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| I park mine at home. We have some that park at home, but most buses are parked at the yard. |
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92FrdCarp#11
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/22/2005 : 4:22:48 PM
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| In my county, drivers are allowed to park their buses at their home or at a school or somewhere in town where they know that the bus won't be messed around with. I don't think that any drivers here park their bus at the shop. |
Johnny
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BlueBird44
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/22/2005 : 4:42:07 PM
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| I park mine at my contractors house all her buses stay at her house enless the driver has room at there house and is semi near the route. Right now all the buses stay at her house which is pretty convient since the fuel tanks is housed there we would still have to come and get diesel there. If I didn't live intown I would keep my bus at my house. I bring it home sometimes during the day but it's really not suppose to stay at my house for an exteneded period of time. I also dont want to wake my neighbors at 6:30 idling my engine. |
IC-The Golden Shield of School Transportation |
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Bluebird 7
Active Member
USA
27 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2005 : 4:54:29 PM
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| All the buses where i work get parked in the garage every night. |
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IC
Top Member
USA
3413 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2005 : 4:55:09 PM
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Hey IC-RE, A LOT more than a few are parked at schools. I would guess it's about half. The biggest yards (West Ox and Newington) only hold about 300-400 buses each. The school principals don't like buses taking up their parking spaces, but they have to put them SOMEWHERE!
I park at 11 Oaks, which is an old school that is now an ALC (special school for gangbangers and other BAD*** kids that have been expelled from regular schools).
The parking at home started going out of style when pre-trip inspections became the law. If the neighbors complain about horns blowing and air brake tests at 5:30 in the morning....you can't park it at home anymore. |
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80-RE4
Top Member
USA
5700 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2005 : 5:59:11 PM
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None of ours get parked at the school. Our buses go back to the bus garage, which is located in town. Needless to say, our yard is pathetic. Bumpy, dusty and dangerous. We're under 345 kv high tension wires and hear them buzz all the time. They're pretty spooky also, especially when it's raining out or when there is snow on them because they make crackling noises and sometimes, when it's really warm or cold, you can see blue waves around them.
I'm one of those people who strongly believes that high voltage power lines cause diseases, such as cancer, so I wonder what the effects are of those who are doing the office work, like the managers, and maintance people.
We've got those huge poles in our yard so we've got to be careful where we park.
Some people bring there buses home overnight in order to allow more space in the yard. When i used to do morning and afternoon I would take my bus home during routes -now i don't obviously because I only work half shift.
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Edited by - 80-RE4 on 02/22/2005 6:29:21 PM |
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CrownBus1
Top Member
USA
633 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2005 : 9:12:48 PM
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| All of the buses in my district are parked at the bus yard. None of the drivers take them home. On occasion, 1 or 2 might be parked at a school, but this is rare. |
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Edited by - CrownBus1 on 02/22/2005 9:13:47 PM |
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scottyd
Advanced Member
USA
491 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 02:37:48 AM
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| I usually take my bus home for the mid-day break, depending on the run I'm covering. Living in a townhouse, we can't have commercial vehicles parked in the neighborhood overnight. There is a school right behind my house where I would park if I ever got my own bus. Spec Ed has such a shortage of buses this year that most of the Floater II's and all Rangers had to give their buses for spares. |
Scott
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IC-RE
Top Member
USA
4117 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 07:55:30 AM
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| wow scottyd, are they going to fix that problem this year with 2005 IC FE's? I was told we are getting 220 more than double the usual amount, maybe you all will get more too? |
bus 1980, a 2008 IC RE 300 for Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, Virginia. |
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scottyd
Advanced Member
USA
491 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 08:54:04 AM
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| IC-RE--I heard about 3 weeks ago that we were not getting all the buses we were supposed to. I don't know if that's just spec ed or county-wide. |
Scott
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IC-RE
Top Member
USA
4117 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 08:56:12 AM
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thats good maybe you won;y have a shortage any more
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bus 1980, a 2008 IC RE 300 for Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, Virginia. |
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specialneeds54
Advanced Member
USA
361 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 1:13:46 PM
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| Just about all of us Take our buses Home Just so much easier that way |
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Cody
Top Member
United States
1630 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 6:02:35 PM
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| We bring ours back to the garage we have. I dont really see a point in keeping them at home, unless you live far away from the garage they're kept at. |
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Tmac0384
Advanced Member
USA
375 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2005 : 11:45:01 PM
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| where i used to work, drivers would leave them at the bus lot, take them home, or park them at one of the schools. it was really based on what the driver wanted to do. at the lot, it was all fenced in and cameras everywhere. at schools and homes... no surveilence. i personally brought my vehicle home, it's easier. and when i go back to driving, i'm gonna bring the bus home, and either park it across the street at an old farmhouse or just park it in the driveway, but too many cars in my driveway, so it'd be across the street. |
sometimes older is way better than new.
some photos of mine: http://community.webshots.com/user/Bus213
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Tmac0384
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 02/24/2005 : 11:46:36 PM
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| another thing... today it snowed all day... and it's still snowing. nothing's better than having that bus in the driveway to cover it up, so no shoveling really has to be done! |
sometimes older is way better than new.
some photos of mine: http://community.webshots.com/user/Bus213
(it's a work in progress... tons of photos to come!) |
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YardBird
Advanced Member
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2005 : 07:42:05 AM
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| We park in the company yard in no particular order. |
Sure! I'll pick your kid up closer to the house... Widen your front door!
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Thomas Ford 85-16
Top Member
USA
4177 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2005 : 1:08:35 PM
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| We park all 86 of our buses in one fenced bus lot set back in the hills where it's quite well concealed. Each bus has a numbered parking space where it must park, and they are serviced in two drive-through garage bays (each bay can hold two buses). It's quite a nice facility, it was built in 2002. I can't think of a time when buses were ever taken home by the drivers... Even the routes from the 1950s indicate that the route either started at a school, or at the bus lot. |
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thomas86_a
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/25/2005 : 2:11:22 PM
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| We keep our fleet of 13 buses at the bus lot on the school grounds, it's fenced in along with the bus garage that was built in 03, the drive comes off of the street and goes by the bus lot and then continues on to the bus loop in the rear, 5 of the buses use that loop the other 5 go around to the other side. We do allow drivers to take their bus home with them if they want to but right now we don't have any drivers that prefer to do that. When you drive in the bus lot their are 12 spots on one side (for regular route buses) only 10 of them are used and on the other side there are 4 spots for spares, currently all of those are full but next year only 3 of them will be. |
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