What Is City Bus Driver Training Really Like?!

Let's take a look at what bus driver training is really like. Is it fun? Difficult? What do you do in transit bus training?

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VIEWS AND OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN MY VIDEOS ARE MY OWN AND DO NOT REFLECT MY EMPLOYER.
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[sampsonl-mill]

18 years later my pre trip has been condensed to a 30 second walk around lol

[TrainfanJanathan]

Coming from being a truck driver, I was shocked with how easy it is to parallel park these buses. I was like, "There are windows everywhere, so I can see through the walls! I can see exactly what each part of the vehicle is doing!"

[reginabeasley]

I have a lot of respect for transit drivers they deal with a lot of people who aren't nice at times and they drive in all kinds of weather kudos to you all

[AtlExpress]

My first week of training with New York City Transit I wanted to quit we had a woman superintendent training us screaming at us every 2 seconds the second week they change instructors to some guy and he was calm laid back didn't scream and yell and passed everybody and now I'm still here 15 years later

[Aliceintraining]

one more thing, the air brake portion of the CDL must be done correctly, any failure on the air brake portion will result in automatic failure of the CDL driving test, at least in my state.

[SolarWraith]

Square your turns, rock and roll, dirty the nose on the turn. I remember those days. Yeah, that dude is in pretty much every CDL video out there.

[damedash]

Man La metro here lol. Man, I remember my time back In training what an experience. We had a test every Friday and you had to pass with at least 80% on your exam. Talk about studying all night lol. You learn the job and yes it's bus boot camp because they're taking you out of the regular everyday driver world into a world-class professional driver.
Hard training to the point where your habits in that bus goes into you driver your own car..and still getting the big picture. Once your driver license turn from C into an CDL B your life has changed. You're held at an higher standard. Them speeding tickets... those are higher then the regular folk.. Why cause your suppose to know better.... That's what the judge will tell ya... So you gotta put respect on that street But what a rewarding career it has been for me 14 years of driving and still going. I started when I was 21.... BUS DRIVER LIFE best channel bro much love to you my good sir keep doing what you are BiG DAME out!!!

[mrmaturitydelinquent]

Hey guys, I'm a bus driver trainee just ending my 5th out of 8 weeks of driver training at Liberty Lines Transit in Yonkers NY and I can verify first hand that everything thats shown in this video is exactly what I'm going thru right now. Its the most intense job training experience I ever went through. There are two big binders full of information including rules, routes, bus manuals and much more. Our company has 35 foot, 40 foot and 60 foot articulated buses and we have to learn all of them, and by the way I find the artics actually turn better than 40 footers. Learned a lot and got a lot more to learn. It was nerve-wracking as hell for the first month.

[simplesimple]

The hardest part for me when I was training to drive buses getting used to the signal lights on the floor I don't know that just threw me off

[JediTev]

I got yelled at constantly when I was training in Portland, and I was an experienced operator. I'm light rail now!
Everything he showed, the Square your turns, rock and roll method, and pretrips are VERY important! You need all these tools to be a successful and safe bus operator!

[Aniara]

Comparing with my country, the "Bus driving bootcamp" looks like when we get the (ordinary) drivers licence to drive a bus. Then after that, there is a 140 hour class of laws and regulations to get the "CDL" on top of that, and finaly you add on the company training and line training.

[NFvidoJagg]

Watching them do the walk around, reminds me of doing my pilot license

[nestasurf]

I was surprised how in depth the training was when I went through it. It wasn’t long though before I realized why it was so in depth. Excellent training!!!

[LuxCustodis]

I hated the dreaded parallel park. Almost messed it up on my road test and they give you ONE try (with 3 times you can step out of the bus to check your trajectory). 50 foot backing and offset backing was by far the easiest.

[christopherchi]

My training with Disney was like 6 weeks. First half was classroom and road training with CDL testing. Second half was location training. First half of the second portion was learning how to get around all the resorts. Second half was actually working out of all the “hubs” (all the theme parks and Disney Springs) with guests onboard with an assessment if you comprehend what you learned if you can satisfactorily drive unaccompanied.

[philstone]

I wish I had the amount of training you went through. With that stated, the best training is actual hands-on driving during your first year of being a bus operator. Great videos. Keep it up.

[Linktransittraining]

Yoooo! I'm not gonna lie, it took us a few minutes to recognize that pic in the thumbnail. We were like, "That bus looks familiar... That cone placement and bus yard look familiar... IT'S US!" Shout out to Keywan for not only having us in the thumbnail but adding a snippet of one of our training videos in your video! Also, shout out to Spokane Transit for helping us set that course up! Just wanted to say Link Transit's Training Dept. are huge fans of this channel. We use a lot of Keywan's videos to show our trainees examples of what they can expect once they get out there with the public. Anyway, just thought that was super cool! Keep it up, sir, love the videos!

[XMovs]

It's so funny you posted this today i have my final evaluation tomorrow at 6am here in Houston hope to pass and graduate Friday to be an official bus operator. its been a long 13 weeks your channel has kept me entertained and motivated through out this journey thank you very much also a Milwaukee native.

[TVHouseHistorian]

That first clip was produced by the transit district I work for 😅. Yes, training for city transit can be kinda stressful. We got very good training where I work.

I think the thing people need to know is the fact that city bus operating is a completely different animal from most other career paths. The training is intense, but getting out there on your own for the first time is even more intense. In my opinion, a *lot* of people come to this profession unprepared for the realities of what we face everyday, which is why the attrition rate is so high in this industry. It takes people who have a lot of grit. Personally, I love this job, and would recommend to *anyone, * except that not just anyone can do what we do. You have to be a person who can let things roll off you and not take it personally. As I’ve stated in comments I’ve made in some of your other videos, a bus operator has to be able to keep the main thing the main thing by realizing you’re out there getting paid by the minute. Now you can either work hard and get stressed out for that pay, or you can take it like an Ex-lax, chill, and make that money the easy way. I prefer making my money the easy way. I get paid by the minute no matter what happens, and that’s what keeps me coming back everyday. Follow the rules, be nice to people, and let things And then get paid… and then buy yaself a nice car… go shopping and get you some nice threads, and go on nice vacations… and on your off time, strut around like you got this life by the *balls!* 😅

[dddaddy]

Very interesting. Tbh this is better in some ways than our training. Yes, those videos can be super corny, but they make you understand and remember more, at least that's what I think. Plus, the driving part of the training seems more 'practically oriented' than ours, which is just basically 'go and try'.