School Bus 1
Number of seconds for visual lead time in the city
What is 12-15 seconds?
Distance to move students when exiting the bus.
What is 12 feet?
What is violating the hands free phone law?
You can see the students behind you and the top of the back window in the top of this mirror.
What is the rearview mirror?
Minimum age to be a bus driver
What is 18?
You can see the front of the bus, the front tires, and the service door with these mirrors.
What are the crossover mirrors?
The 3 zones of the Safety Circle
What is zone of recognition, zone of action, accident zone?
2/32nds and 4/32nds
What is the minimum tread depth for the rear and front tires?
When approaching a stop for student pick in a non-urban area, activate the Amber lights at this amount of feet.
What is 200 feet?
A bus can have up to this many feet with a tail swing.
What is 3 feet?
50 to 150 feet up to 400 feet depending on the length and width of the bus.
What is the blind spot behind the bus?
Apply the service brake, place the bus in gear, build the RPM's and release the parking brake
What is the procedure to prevent roll-back on a hill?
As a bus driver you cannot do this with a route, only a school official can.
What is change the route?
These 3 things add up to the total stopping distance
What is perception, reaction and braking?
If there is more than 2in of play in the steering wheel it could indicate a problem with..
What is the steering box and linkage?
Activity where more students are killed as pertaining to a school bus.
What are loading and unloading the bus?
What is: Havin a BAC .04 or more; Refusal to undergo BAC testing; Driving a CMV when the CDL is suspended/revoked; leaving the scene of an accident involving CMV
When picking up students you should check the mirrors, activate your amber lights, and put this on about 100-300 feet or 3-5 seconds before pulling over.
What is put on the right turn signal?
Four reasons to activate your hazard lights
What is backing, at a RR xing grade, disabled and with 10ft of the roadway and to warn other vehicles of an upcoming hazard?
As a general rule, when crossing tracks you need to have the length of your bus plus 15 feet.
What is the queuing or staging area?
This violation will result in the loss of your CDL
1st offense 60 days
2nd offense 120 days within 3 yrs
3rd offense 1 year within a 3 yr period
What is Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing?
Move the student away from the danger zone, secure the bus and retrieve the object yourself.
What should you do if a student drops an object in the danger zone of the bus?
No student can be escorted across a roadway if there are this many lanes.
What are four or more lanes?
If your privilege to operate your personal vehicle is rev-can-sus for this reason you will also loose your CDL for 1 year for the 1st offense and for life for the 2nd
What is a reason due to alcohol or controlled substance?
Your bus is rated for 72 students. There are 75 students you let get on because they are small. What rule did you break?
What is exceed the manufacturer's capacity?