Bus Driver Life
The first thing a bus driver does before starting their route.
What is a Pre-Trip inspection?
This flashing light means the bus is about to stop.
What is the amber warning light?
In the late 1800s, this type of wagon was used to take kids to school.
What is a kid hack?
You must stop for a school bus with red lights flashing unless you're on this type of road.
What is a divided highway?
This U.S. state is the largest user of school buses.
What is Texas?
The document that gives a person permission to drive a bus.
What is a Commercial Driver's License?
What is the most common exit in the bus?
What is the front door?
This decade saw the creation of the first motorized school bus.
When was the 1910s?
Many states require school buses to have this feature to protect passengers during crashes concerning compartmentalization.
What are padded high-back seats?
This is the average number of miles a school bus drives each year.
How much is 12,000 miles?
School bus drivers use this device to call for help or report issues.
What is a radio?
You must stop for a school bus when these are flashing.
What is the red warning light?
This year, the color “school bus yellow” was officially chosen.
When was 1939?
The stop sign arm and flashing red lights are legally considered this type of signal.
What is a traffic control device?
How many tires are on a school bus?
How many is 6?
This is the federal department that oversees bus safety in the U.S.
What is the Department of Transportation?
The arm that extends in front of the bus to help kids cross safely.
What is the crossing arm?
Before buses were yellow, their bodies were often made of this material.
What is wood?
This technology is increasingly used to catch illegal passers of stopped buses.
What are stop-arm or traffic cameras?
School buses are built with this type of steel to resist impacts.
What is reinforced steel?
On average in the United States, how much do bus drivers get paid annually?
How much is $55,952?
Number of feet cars must stop from a bus with flashing red lights in the United States.
What is 20 feet?
In the 1920s, this fuel became common for school buses instead of horses.
What is gasoline?
This 1939 event helped create national standards for the color, size, and features of school buses still used today.
What is the National School Bus Conference?
The average seating capacity of a typical large school bus.
How much is 72 students?