Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you tonight about
becoming a transit bus driver. The process that you need to go
through from the interview to being successful in getting called in to do
the training, to being a transit bus driver. As well what is going to
happen in the subsequent days after that. okay in terms of being a transit bus
drivers well we're going to answer questions for anybody who is taking a
license this week or has questions about any part of driving driving commercially
a truck a bus or getting their license for the first time so that's what we're
going to talk about today and peaches hey how are you tonight and Dave McLean
is here Dave are you watching the Superbowl game and you asked me if I was
watching and I'm not watching it because I'm here doing a livestream tonight
and I think that's one of the things as I've been competing with the Superbowl
today and yeah the channels been kind of has been quiet as it often is on holiday
weekends so unless anybody has questions let's see what do I need to talk about
what do I need to do yes I wanted to thank sunny for bio retention cells I
think that's what it's called anyway it's oh you're Ella dave is ready
to learn how to be a bus driver in Ontario that's a nicer Ryan
yes transit buses we're getting there so yeah that's actually a bus Nathan from
the TTC in Toronto the comments aren't showing
there we go Cory thanks for that I put them up because I noticed that they
weren't on last week's feed and I forgot to transition them over to the other
side Simon oh how can how can you measure 5th wheel play Simon you'll know
when you're driving the truck you'll feel the trailer slopping around in
there so when you hit the brakes you'll feel the trailer kind of come forward
and then you'll feel it go back again on thing there isn't a way to measure 5th
wheel play without a mechanic and they actually have a device that has a pole
with a fifth wheel with a kingpin on it and they stick it into the fifth wheel
and they jiggle it back and forth so in order to actually have a precise
measurement on how to measure the play in the fifth wheel you got to take it to
a mechanic otherwise the only way you're gonna know is when you get slop in the
trailer when you're braking in those types of things all right Samantha how
are you welcome to the live feed tonight I see that there are some people who are
not watching the Super Bowl Wildman saw tuber tour bus at a hotel
this summer taking retired folks on sightseeing trips around the country was
thinking what a gravy job this would be staying nice hotels everyday eating for
free yeah and wild man I can talk to you a
little bit about that I did do a little bit of tour Coach driving while I was in
Australia and so I can talk to you a little bit about that and some of the
types of work that you can do okay Jericho era of Jericho row yo Sam is
here Sam is with the rookie auto driving school in the Bronx and if anybody is in
New York there look Sam up and lots of great comments and lots of successful
students and students that have been very happy with the training that
they've received their debut took the comment away about somebody scoring a
touchdown I caught it just before it went okay
like Ken is here wild man
yeah Wildman it's it's it's an interesting job and you do get to go to
places and I mean it's certainly a lot easier if you're single if you're not
single then it's you know not so much because there are you can be away from
home from a fair bit so okay lykan you're most welcome Sam working on my
class be living in CTA and CT like Anna is that a Class B in Connecticut is that
a school bus do they have a separate class a license for buses there just let
me know that in the comments here okay so people wanting to know yep Eagles
scored a touchdown in a surprising way we all have to watch the replay to see
that so okay barakat thank you so much for that all right so we're just gonna
say it the comments I'm gonna go through the presentation here I'm gonna get it
up fairly quickly and go through that because I think last week I had somebody
comment that I got it I was answering questions too much in the a can too much
so I'm gonna get right to the PowerPoint presentation tonight for those people
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answer those those comments and questions for you okay Big E hold that
question because I will answer that question because there's kind of two
answers to that okay single no kids wild man that is ideal because if you
want to get this out of your system in terms of going and being a coach driver
and over-the-road truck driver that's if you don't have attachments to family it
certainly makes it a lot easier alright so get this going here
there we go okay one second just bear with me here and just put myself down in
the corner there there we go all right so city bus driver and that is
a Narayan transit buff with a wheelchair accessible ramp and the ramp is going to
be used for not just wheelchairs and other mobility devices but also moms
that have baby strollers and those types of things and this is a picture of me
not in a transit bus but this is a picture of me driving greyhound when I
was living in Australia some of you been into the other previous live streams
have seen this image before and the reason that I'm doing this is because I
was doing some work on a investigation on a post crash investigation involving
a transit bus and I talked to three or four operations managers last week and I
got some really good information and I got some different information from
different operations managers operations managers are people who are basically
responsible for making sure that the buses go up and down the road they work
closely with the human resources department in terms of hiring personnel
they take care of any sort of discipline and they also match available drivers
with available equipment so if a bus is broken down in those types of things are
going to oversee service and maintenance and repairs of vehicles as well and
they're going to sort of coordinate all that sort of different operations of the
day-to-day work that a transit company does in order to provide service and
keep the buses going up and down the road so that's what operations managers
do alright and we get rid of some of this junk here there we go we'll get rid
of this there we go that's better and we'll make this a bit bigger where it's
the bigger no view zoom zoom out zoom in there we go okay so for those of you who
haven't been here before don't know me are new to smart drive test smart drive
test helps new drivers get a license regardless of class truck bus or car and
motorcycle as well and also as well helps you start your career as a trucker
bus driver and helps veteran drivers to remain crash free I'm Rick auguste I've
been a driving instructor a commercial driving instructor for the better part
of twenty years and I'm licensed in the province of British Columbia I also have
a driving school yes I have a doctorate in legal history and for those you don't
know legal history is the study of policing courts and prisons and my
expertise ISM is in policing as it relates to traffic I was also a truck
driver through most of the 90s here and there off and on again over the road I
did drive into Manhattan and most of the stuff east of the Mississippi in the
United States also drove through Canada and then I moved to Australia and while
I was going to university I drove for Greyhound for a year before I actually
got there and then part time I drove regional for a company called v-line
which is essentially the bus system that hooked up between the different trains
and those types of things so that's in a nutshell Who I am
alright so this week two videos up turning left centered left turning lanes
I did a video on that and I also caught a car going through a charging a yellow
light and the vehicle turned left and there would have been a collision had
the vehicle proceeding straight through not applied the brakes so I put those
two videos up this week and as well both of those videos are in the playlist left
turning playlist so if you're going for a road test you definitely want to look
at this video about the mechanics and the techniques and skills involved in
turning left and definitely have a look at those if you haven't seen those
alright so in terms of being a transit driver and this also applies to truck
drivers as well and this is my mate bill bill Walker who some of you may or may
not have seen his information about he was one of my students and then he went
off to northern Alberta hiren in Canada and he became a truck driver two days
after he went on a truck driving school
in the way that he found his job as a truck driver was he started looking for
a job right away and he started networking he talked to everybody he
could talk to you about what he was doing the fact that
he was going to truck driving school and the fact that he was looking for a job
as a truck driver and it's the same with what you want to do you may not get in
on with the local Transit Authority right away but if you go to work for the
pear Transit Authority you know moving people around with mobility challenges
and those types of things or you work for the local church driving a bus and
those types of things all this work is going to contribute and make you a more
attractive applicant for the Transit Authority so you want to do that before
you even start going and getting your license all right now the other thing if
you need to go and get a license if the Transit Authority isn't going to train
you because there are some transit authorities that will train you to get a
license right from the ground up however if you do go and get your license before
you apply to the Transit Authority and there are other transit authorities I
did talk to a Transit Authority where most of the applicants already had their
license and this was in the province of Ontario where there was both a transit
license so Class C and there was also a school bus license which is Class B and
most of the people that applied had a Class B which is considered a little bit
higher license than a Class C and I'll talk to you a little bit more in detail
about that a little bit later in terms of higher licenses but if you're gonna
go get your own license what I would encourage you to consider is to think
about just getting the highest class license possible because if you get the
highest class license oftentimes you're gonna get everything you're gonna get a
truck license you're gonna get a bus license as well and that way if the
transit thing doesn't work out and you don't want to do it because for whatever
reason it doesn't fit with you then you always have options of going and being a
truck driver or doing something different and that's one of the
attractive aspects of being a commercial driver is that there are lots of options
you're not stuck with what you're doing now one of one of the cons of being a
driver is and I'll say this up front is is that oftentimes you're only ever
going to be a driver if you work for a company for a number of years oftentimes
there is very little room or promotion there I'm not saying that
it's not there but the possibilities the possibility that you're going to go in
like one of the operations manager that I talked to went on to be a driver
trainer and then went on to be the operations manager that is that is rare
in terms of drivers getting promoted into something that you'd beyond being a
driver so know that and that's one of the reasons I encourage you to get a
higher class license with a truck and then you could go on and do something
else all right so the interview process and
the interview process varies between transit companies depending on where you
go and I talk as I said I talked to four different transit companies in Ontario
and the hiring process was different one of them was you had to submit an
application you get called in for an inch and Ischl interview with the HR
department the operations manager and those types of things and usually
there's three or four people who are going to interview you it's a behavioral
question interview process and basically what a behavioral interview is is
questions that ask you about your past act reactions that you've had in actions
that you've taken and choices that you made in your career and then they base
future events on what you did in the past that's a behavioral question
interview most one of the one of the common themes amongst all of the transit
authorities and all of the operations managers was attitude this is a job
above customer service transit operators is your frontline workers and it's about
attitudes so they want people who are going to be able to work with the with
the public and they're not going to be get upset they're going to follow
policies and procedures and those types of things and they're going to do their
job and that's what they're looking for so the one Transit Authority you've had
to apply you in it for an issue initial interview if you pass the initial
interview then you did some online questions you pass that part you went in
for a second interview and then you went in for the training process if you were
lucky enough to be hired and offered a job now you went in for six weeks of
training after the six weeks of training then you were offered a probationary
position and it's not a full-time position it's a
casual position where you are on probation and you're on probation for a
long period of time up to a year with some of these companies it's quite a
long period of time and so you can be on probation if you're hired on full time
if you're hired on with other companies you can be on a casual basis in and she
was saying that it was not unusual to be on a casual basis for three to four
years and I'll talk a little bit more about what you're looking at if you do
get hired on in your working casual because that can be a bit of a drag for
some people and some people may not be able to you know make it through that
initial period because it is a lengthy initial period okay so some of the pros
of driving a transit bus you're always employed if you're working for a transit
company here you are not not going to be employed you're always going to have
work if you're on a casual basis with some of the transit authorities as they
ask you're gonna be asked to be available 40 hours a week and you're
gonna work 40 hours a week so and you're gonna make a decent income you're gonna
get benefits after three or four months and you're gonna get a uniform allowance
they do give you uniform units as I talked to one operations manager it's a
quite nice uniform that give you pants shirts jackets you know it's about
$1,000 which they give you in a form and then as needed it's me it's going to be
replaced as well most transit authorities make between twenty and
thirty dollars an hour so it's a good wage a good benefit it's a full
comprehensive benefit package for you and your family and you get a uniform
and you know the works not too hard you're not gonna work Midnight's but you
are gonna work late if you're working afternoon shifts you're working
afternoon shifts you're probably going to work you know sort of six to 132
o'clock in the morning now most of the information I'll just say this for the
people who might be listening from the states most of the information I'm
giving you is about transit authorities in Canada and most of my experience with
transit authorities is in Ontario they don't find a great deal of variation but
if you find that what I'm saying is a little bit different in the US just
leave a comment there and for those you're watching on the replay as well
just leave a comment in the comment section there and just give me some
information about you know how it's different in the United States maybe you
don't work in a union shop maybe you don't get a union uniform allowance
maybe you don't get benefits and those types of things so could you just leave
a comment that would be really great okay so the cons of driving a transit
bus and I do apologize that I put union-shop under there that was an
oversight on my part that was not meant to be a car but one of the reasons that
maybe what I was thinking at the time that I put this on here was that Union
shop and the reason it's a union shop is that you are going to be based you're
going to be promoted on seniority not on merit so if you do a really good job and
you think all I should be promoted well you're that's not gonna happen in a
Transit Authority most of the time you're going to be promoted on seniority
how long you've actually been with the company the work hours are not
attractive for a lot of people and I know that you know there was a time that
I considered being a transit bus driver and working these hours was not
desirable for me at all you're going to work weekends and you're gonna work
nights for a very long time probably much more than a dozen years in the
beginning you're going to work split shifts and split shifts are essentially
you go in the morning you work the rush hour in the morning till about 9:00
o'clock and then you go home until about two o'clock in the afternoon and then
you come back in the afternoon and you work the afternoon shift the busy rush
hour in the afternoon from about two to six maybe seven o'clock you get a full
day but you go home in the afternoon for about four hours and I mean for some
people that may be attractive for me it's not attractive because when I go to
work I'm at work and I come home at the end of the day I don't want to come home
and then go back alright you're going to work the spare board and the spare board
is for runs where drivers are on holidays drivers are sick they don't
come in that you have an extra run somebody hired of transit bus to take
you know the old folks down to you know shuffleboard and those types of things
so you're going to work that and as one of the operations managers said to
me you know if you're new at these bigger or urban transit authorities like
in Toronto in those types of places it's probably gonna better part of 10 or 15
years you're gonna work weekend nights you're gonna work every statutory
holiday now one in the same time if you work on a statutory holiday on Christmas
and Easter and those types of things you're going to be compensated for that
probably most of these people are going to make time and a half maybe even
double time on you know working New Year's Eve or working Christmas or
something like that now if you're not customer service inclined you don't want
to be a transit bus driver because you're on the frontline I already talked
about being promoted on seniority and and I also touched on the fact that
there's little opportunity for you being anything but a driver okay you go to
work for these transit authorities you're always going to be a driver
there's very little opportunity you might get promoted to being a dispatch
supervisor you might get promoted to being an operations manager but you're
going to be with the company for a lengthy period of time before any of
that happens okay and as it says down here in the bottom with most companies
you have to pay your dues alright to get your license and part of the training
you're gonna need a B license or a C license and some of these companies will
train you so they will train you right from the ground up you don't have to
have a license other companies are going to require that you do in fact have a
license and you're going to be taught air brakes and you're gonna have to do
air brakes and as I've said before in other video our other videos that these
air brake courses are technical they're outdated they're from a point of view of
a mechanic there's in my mind there's far too much information for drivers to
understand especially in this day and age of air brakes that are simply not
going to fail and if you'll have a look at this video here on air brakes
explained it'll give you the down-and-dirty on air brakes okay and
then there's how to brake a larger vehicle braking a larger vehicle with
more weight and you need more distance than those types of things and there's a
lot of emphases on Valve's and systems in terms of taking air brakes and you
need to be a professional driver you need to know more road signs you need to
know Heights and dimensions of the vehicle in those types of things because
they're you're gonna say well transit buses are on the same route all the time
what happens if there's road work and you get detoured onto another road and
those types of things you're gonna have to know the dimensions of your vehicle
so you don't get into trouble and you don't take the roof off or the
air-conditioning off the top of the bus because if that happens and your
operations manager says to you well what happened how come you took their air
conditioning unit off well I didn't know and and that's not good enough for a
professional driver so you have to know all of this stuff so I'll have a look at
this this video is well on road signs in the top ten signs that you need to know
as a commercial CDL driver ok dispatch supervisor I did talk a little bit about
super dispatch supervisors these are your partner in crime when you're
driving the boss is the transit bus and there are going to be times during the
day when you're driving the transit bus that you're gonna get behind schedule
there's going to be traffic there's going to be delays you're going to have
too many passengers on your vehicle they're going to have to put on extra
buses during the rush hour so that
they're gonna have to put on extra buses to accommodate the extra past news and
those types of things especially if you are going to a university in those types
of things when I rode the transit in London Ontario and I was going to
university there there were often times that the bus was fall and the driver
just drove to the University because it was full of university students okay so
they insure that bus is running time they're your immediate boss they're the
ones that are gonna say listen do this or do that you know drive past two bus
stops because there's another bus directly behind you in that bus response
for picking up the passengers at those stops so they're responsible for that
now one of the other things I want to talk a little bit about is transit buses
versus school buses because these two buses these two types of buses are
incredibly different okay transit buses pull over to the curb
they have bus bays and the purpose of a transit bus is to try and get off the
road as much as possible to try and facilitate traffic flow in an attempt to
reduce congestion within urban areas okay school buses on the other side on
the other hand stay on the travel portion of the road and they do not move
off the traveled portion of the road and there's a lot of things that protect
school buses when passengers are boarding and alighting from school buses
and the flashing lights top arms the law is meets up heavy penalties for drivers
that pass school buses and those types of things whereas transit buses don't
have any of that protection okay they move into bus bays they have isolated
exchange areas and they pull over to the curb
and up to the bus stop sign to a light and board passengers and the reason for
that as I said was to facilitate traffic flow within the urban center so know
that that's a little bit different than what you're going to encounter if you're
driving a school bus so if you being a school bus driver and you move on to
being a transit bus driver there's going to be some different things that you're
going to have to employ when you're lighting and boarding passengers okay so
that's essentially in a nutshell about being a transit bus driver you have any
questions at all we'll head over to the questions and answers here and as I said
for those of you watching on the replay if you are transit bus driver and you
have any different information all of that certainly helps out the smart
drivers who are working towards being a transit bus drivers so good luck on your
road test and remember pick the best answer not necessarily the right answer
alright just transition back over here okay and Corey's gonna tell me to get
the comments back up there so get that back over there there we go okay okay
where did it go there we go all right
okay Brian lawless in metro-system ah Brian where are you they're gonna run
24/7 yes so you're gonna run 24 hours and that is one of the differences about
buses in the United States is there going to be a lot of bigger metropolitan
areas in the United States where the transit system will run 24 hours here in
Canada most of our transit systems do not run 24 hours they only run till 1:00
1:30 in the morning so that is one of the differences and
thank you for letting telling us about that oh thanks Sam I was hoping to give
a fair sort of well-rounded presentation on
that okay ah Dave are you talking about coach buses are you talking about city
buses in terms of advertisements on the sides of these buses so Sam was a bus
driver too were you who did you drop which authority did you drive for Sam
did you drive you there in New York all right let's see who else
Bartolo you failed your driving test twice okay Bartolo why did you fail your
test what was the feedback that they gave you
okay peaches wants to know what the relay valve is on a truck peaches a
relay valve is essentially a valve that sends a message to tell somebody else to
do the work so think of it like if I wanted to send flowers to my mom who
lives in Ontario 2,000 miles away I wouldn't drive to Ontario and get
flowers and take them to my mom I mean my mom would be really chuffed if I did
that but the faster way to send flowers to my mom is to call on the telephone to
the local flower shop and then just get them to deliver flowers to my mom it's a
lot faster and lot more efficient and that's what the relay valve does is when
you push down on the foot pedal the brake pedal it sends a message to the
relay valve which is located near the brake chamber at the back of the unit or
near where the braking system are the braking unit is at the wheel and it says
okay I want six pounds of pressure delivered to the brake chamber so it
just draws the air directly from the air tank and sends it out and that way it
reduces the amount of travel or the amount of distance that the air pressure
has to travel in order to apply the brakes and it reduces brake lag in the
system so that's the purpose of the relay valve okay like in straight truck
just get my B permit okay there we go all right Nathan what's your favorite
bus manufacturer Nathan I think you'd have to ask that for Sam ish because
Nathan you're talking about transit buses right
because I haven't driven transit buses I have driven buses in Australia and the
buses in Australia that I drove were all coaches they were all Highway coaches
that I drove and there was such a mishmash of different buses that I drove
that I just can't remember
okay so there's Sam he worked for New Jersey Transit also did charity for
Coach USA and Saddle River tours well that's interesting and what Sam
what was your most interesting tour that you went on with Saddle River Tours
watch what we're going to hear more favorite ones okay Moo toddy are you
kidding yes I'm Canadian
no actually mu toddy most of the rules in North America are more or less the
same there's some minor differences but for the most part driving rules and
driving laws even if you go to Australia they are similar around the world I mean
there's very little difference I mean yes there's going to be some different
variations on signs and those types of things and some slight variations on the
rules but for the most part driving in Canada in the United States is going to
be more or less the same so yeah okay Dave how fast can a huge bus travel from
Toronto to the Chicago uh well Dave if you're talking about a Greyhound bus
they could probably make that run in about eight hours because Greyhound
buses if you've ever been on a Greyhound bus they moved they could they really
they really kick it out the Greyhound buses that I drove in Australia did not
kick it out because they were all governed at 100 kilometers an hour that
was the fastest they would go but I know here in Canada I've seen Greyhound buses
and you're pretty hard-pressed to keep up to them so they could probably do
that run from Toronto to Chicago and a Greyhound bus in about eight hours is
what they could do okay
okay Dave I'll tell you this from the experience that I've had with driving
older transit buses and driving coaches is that when they're in the lower gears
and because we have electronic diesel engines what you do is you just put you
just put the throttle on the floor you just push it right to the floor and once
the vehicle gets up to the speed because most of these vehicles are all
automatics you just lift the pedal up and then just get it at the cruising
speed that you want to go because because they're so big and because you
have so much weight that you're trying to move you really just want to get it
going and that's that's the fastest way to do it okay there we go so Sam most of
the work you did was picking up people in New York and New Jersey and taking
them to Atlantic City Jersey for the casinos there you go Atlantic City New
Jersey for the casinos well that must have been lots of fun did you get lots
of tips Sam with doing the tour bus driving down to the casino and those
types things I mean especially people won big at the casino I'm sure that they
were giving you tips and whatnot Dave that's fast for a bus yeah they're gonna
do they're gonna kick along there I know that for a fact I remember when they
Dave I got on a greyhound out of Toronto and I was going to London and I bet you
that guy was doing 130 140 kilometers an hour which is 80 miles an hour
that guy was moving I remember that because unfortunately and in the back of
the bus it was at the very back of the bus and the driver hit the brakes I
don't know what for and I remember coming off the seat okay
Dave how much is a city bus and a coach bus well I know a coach a highway coach
runs upwards of four hundred and fifty to five hundred thousand dollars I know
they're expensive they're incredibly expensive I know the buses that they
were buying Australia the new buses were upwards of half a million dollars and
they were Highway coaches and they were they were pricey yeah for sure okay
yeah pretty slow day so most people are watching Super Bowl here okay so wild
man a lot of the ads I've seen for Coach bus drivers here in the states require
one year over the road commercial truck driving experience now that's
interesting that that's what you've seen now maybe a wild man if you could send
me one of those ads and I could have a look at it because that's an interesting
requirement I don't think I've ever seen that before that they require over the
road commercial truck driving experience because often times truck drivers are
not the best bus drivers because there are truck drivers for a reason because
the freight doesn't talk back to them I would think that most of these bus
companies would want somebody who's much better off you know much better dealing
with the public and has customer service experience than being a truck driver
because I mean we can teach anybody to drive the bus you cannot teach people
customer service I mean you can to a certain extent but really customer
service is really the crux of what you want people to do in terms of teaching
them how to drive a boss and whatnot okay I think it's gonna be a short night
tonight I think we might just wrap this up Patriots about to make a comeback
there we go that's awesome okay Sam yes indeed the inside the bus was so
loud because of the music they were playing the passengers turned the bus
into a party bus I made sure I didn't complain so I get a good tip yeah I got
a few tips Sam when I was I drove I mentioned at the beginning that I drove
to coach for a very brief period of time when it's in Australia I think I was
just looking for some more work and we went from Melbourne down to Port
Bay which is our Port Phillip Island Port Phillip Island
yes Port Phillip Island where there were fairy penguins little fairy penguins and
they go out to the ocean for the day and then at night they come up on the beach
and they go up to their burrows and they live in burrows and we used to go down
and we would stop at a little farm there and they had some kangaroos and
wallabies and those types of things kangaroo
kangaroos and wombats Wallabies and kangaroos are the same thing Wallabies
are just smaller and smaller and they had some other animals Australian
animals and those types of things so we stopped there for a little bit and then
we often times in the summer we would go for dinner first because they didn't
come out until dark and we would go into a restaurant it was in a town called
cows so of course I had to deal with cow jokes while I was driving in there and
those types of things so and you know you know what do you call a cow that
just gave birth decaffeinated so those are my cows oaks that I told
while I went into cows and you know we got free meal at the restaurant and
whatnot we went down and got to go to the fairy penguins it wasn't very I mean
after that you'd been there a couple of times it wasn't you know too much to do
and you just kind of hung around the bus after that so but that was one of the
things I did and then it kind of the drag about it was is that we come back
and we didn't get back to Melbourne till about 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning and
then you had to sort of drop these people off at different destinations at
the hotels and those types think there's a lot of these people that were going
down to see the ferry Penguins were tourists in Melbourne and staying in
hotels and you had to drop them off at the hotel so the time you got back to
the terminal to put the bus away whose one or two in the morning and then you
had to go home so is it made for a long day okay wild man good videos learning a
lot you got a good channel glad I found it thanks so much wild man that's great
they appreciated your compliments and those types of things and I really
appreciate it and keeps me going what's an average wage for a draw greyhound
driving bus Dave most of these Drake Graham people are going to make 20 25
dollars an hour is the amount of that you're gonna make for driving a
Greyhound bus it's it's a competitive wage and I don't know Canada because I
didn't drive in Canada as I said I drove in Australia but I made $25 an hour in
Australia I got a uniform and as I said and Sam may be able to say something to
this as well I did get all my meals paid for and they did put me up in a hotel
and that was the reason that I went to drive coaches for Greyhound when I was
in Australia because you got to stay in a hotel I mean some of the hours were
pretty tough in terms of driving for gran and those types of things one of
the runs that we had was that you would drive to Canberra and you would get you
would leave at 7 o'clock in the morning you got there at 3 in the afternoon you
slept until 3 o'clock the next morning and then you took the bus the 4 o'clock
in to Sydney and came back and the time you get back to think you got back at 3
o'clock in the afternoon and then at 8 or 9 o'clock that night then you drive
drove the overnight back to Melbourne so the hours were not great like you were
not driving during the day and you didn't have a regular night shift so you
know driving for greyhound may not be the ideal either in terms of
work hours and those types of things
which which bus are you talking about Cory I don't remember that's three that
gave you trouble the bus that gave me trouble oh is that the one with the
passengers on the holiday weekend is that the one you're talking about Cory
that's a funny story
Nathan would I ever want to be a BC Transit bus driver well I'm pretty busy
with what I'm doing now Nathan in terms of the You Tube channel one of the
things about being a youtube channel when you first start out you're thinking
oh this is really isn't gonna work out and then once it gets to the size that
it is now it is really busy I'm answering a lot of comments and trying
to keep up with videos and those types of things so I don't think being a VC
transit drivers in my future anytime soon but you know I did train some
people here who went on to be transit drivers to the BC Transit
Authority and they're doing well and they like doing it right you know for
some people you know they're working at Walmart right now and then they want to
go on and work for BC Transit I mean if you're working for Walmart then you go
to work for a Transit Authority that is a big step up in terms of your work
hours and the amount of money that you're gonna make in those types of
things so for a lot of people it's going to be a good opportunity for them to
advance their career and move forward and what they're doing in those types of
things so yes okay Cory okay so Dave that's a good question why do buses have
so many ads on them and the reason they have so many ads is because these
transit authorities are all subsidized you may not know this but the fare that
passengers put in the fare box does not cover in any stretch of the imagination
the running costs for those buses most of these buses in Canada and this
probably is similar for the states are subsidized by the federal and provincial
governments to a very large extent most of them are most of the smaller transit
authorities are subsidized to somewhere of about 70% by taxpayers for these to
go up and down the road and this is one of the reasons that they have
advertisements on them is because the money that the passengers put in the
fare box is not enough money to pay to have all the personnel required to keep
a Transit Authority going and moving the buses up and down the road and fixing
the buses and buying new buses and those types of things so that's one of the
reasons why they have advertisements on them and as I said as well a lot of the
government funding is about to the tune of about 70% there's only one or two
transit authorities in Canada and Ottawa Transit is one of those transit
companies our bus companies that actually is able to support itself with
the fares that it generates because Ottawa Transit
is one of the best transit authorities in Canada remember riding it after years
of riding London transit and I went to Ottawa and I thought all I need two
hours to get to the train station and I was there in about 11 minutes so yeah
that's exactly right Dave know the fares do not pay for the buses
any stretch of the imagination as I said these most of these bus companies city
bus companies are heavily heavily subsidized by the government so most of
them up to the tune or seventy seventy five percent okay so that's why they
have so much adverse Masson them Brian and Brian just said that yes it's about
seventy percent in the states as well so most of these transit companies are
being subsidized by the government the fair that you pay to get to ride that
bus does not pay for that bus to go up and down the road okay sir Cory wants me
to tell the story about the bus okay so I had one bus it was a holiday weekend I
was on the run the same run that I just explained to you that goes up goes to
camber in Australia and then and then it goes to Sydney you you sleep overnight
go to Sydney the next morning come back and then you drive back to Melbourne at
night and this bus they gave me most of the buses the coaches the highway
coaches are 52 passengers so when the bus is full it's 52 passengers and when
the bus breaks down they do one of two things they send another bus out or they
send the mechanic out whoever gets there first the other bus or the mechanic
that's what they do they either fix the bus or they take all the passengers to
put them on another bus now this bus they have one bus because the company
that I worked for had a mishmash of vehicles and this one bus would hold 54
passengers and the bus broke down it broke out of broke down right at the
border of New South Wales in Victoria and so we get in to the service station
and we're there for about two hours and finally the bus broke down what happened
was it was it was a shifter with it was an electric shift and they pumped air
through the shifter so it felt like a real shifter and what happened was it
really shortened the wire and when it heated up the short wouldn't connect so
you couldn't shift beyond third gear so the bus broke down cooled down for about
two hours and then it went again and we everything was fine we got up to
Canberra and the thing broke down again as we're coming into Canberra and they
spent another two hours while I went off to the hotel and whatnot so I get up the
next day and we go into I go into Sydney on a different bus that they had brought
and I get into Sydney and there's the bus and it cooled down and it worked
fine and that's the bus I'm taking back to Canberra so I get on the bus
and I get all the passengers on the bus and we're driving down the road and I
get on the microphone and I say to the passengers
you know those well-oiled machines that run on time with full efficiency
they all like yeah yeah we know and I'm like well you're not on that bus and the
first thing that happened was we had to get fuel because they didn't feel the
bus up because it arrived late and the people that filled the bus up so we had
to stop and get fuel well of course as soon as we stopped we got fuel everybody
got off the bus and we start going down the road again and the same problem
again it won't shift so we drive back to the service station and I called a
mechanic and I'm like the bus is broken down again I can't get it to go and
there so they're off the phone and waiting another 15 or 20 minutes with
all the passengers on the bus and the mechanic calls me back and he says we
can't get a mechanic out to you today it's a holiday weekend it's Sunday and
you're gonna have to fix the bus well I just broke out into hysterics because
this bus is broken down three or four times already on a holiday weekend we
couldn't get it going and now they wanted me to fix it
well again the bus cooled down we got it back to camber and they could never send
another bus out because they had to send two buses out and it was a holiday
weekend they didn't have two extra buses they couldn't get a mechanic to fix it
they couldn't figure what it was and I think it took them better part of two or
three days before they actually found the short in the bus so that what's the
one problem with one of the buses that we had never a dull moment driving
coaches for greyhounds Drive I have ever Nathan I've ever been on a TransLink bus
no I haven't been on a TransLink buses there's something interesting about
TransLink buses Nathan
okay so Dave Transit buses they have a depo so when they go back to the depot
at night there are mechanics and other service people that's their job we had a
guy who worked for Greyhound in Australia and that was his job he filled
up the buses we didn't have to fuel at the buses it was rare that we had to
fuel up buses and just on the topic of talking about coaches and
not if you do go into a service station and you fuel up the bus make sure you
get on the phone and it's a lot easier in this day and age because we all have
cell phones get on the phone and call the restaurant that's going to be at the
service station or the service station and say listen I'm bringing in a coach
I've got 35 people on the bus and we're gonna be there in a half an hour
otherwise if you show up with a bus full of people 35 people and Sam will
probably say something to this as well and you just dump them on a service
station or a restaurant and they don't know you're coming they're going to be
very upset with you because if you give them some lead time they're gonna get
some more staphon and they're gonna be ready and they're gonna have a bunch of
stuff ready for the passenger so they can get you in and out of the service
station as quickly as possible so if you're fueling the bus you can't you
can't have the passengers on the bus you actually have to let them off the bus
but as I said most of the time there's service personnel in the depot and those
types of things that they're gonna do that for you that's not something you
have to do as part of being a transit bus driver and that's a nice thing about
being a bus driver as opposed to being a truck driver because if you're on a
truck you got to fuel it up yourself whereas the bus somebody else does it
for you okay so Brian most transit buses are
natural gas or diesel I do know there are some buses that are electrical here
in the LA area yes and you're right Brian some of the buses in Vancouver and
other large metropolitan areas are electric as well so yes so it's not
always going to be diesel fuel that you're putting in the bus but it's going
to be propane it's going to be natural gas or they're going to be electric so
and Sam said the same thing you didn't have to fuel the bus and when I drove
buses for for Greyhound it was only that one time that I actually had to put fuel
in the bus most of the time I did not put fuel in the bus service personnel
put fuel in a bus and like I said that's one of the nice things about driving a
bus is that you don't have to fuel all of us and you know most of the time you
don't have to clean it either you just bring it back to the Depot you
park it and there are service personnel that's their job they clean the bus they
fuel the bus they do all the other work that needs to be done to the bus you
just drive the bus so that's one of the nice things about that and I think I
could say the same for transit drivers I don't think a lot of transit drivers
or cleaning buses and those types of things either so just know that as well
all right so I think we're just about any questions there I think that gives
you a fairly good overview of bus driving and you know pursuing a career
as a bus driver and whatnot and if you for those of you watching on the replay
if you have any questions or comments leave a comment down in the comment
section there all that helps so if you like what you see here share subscribe
leave a comment down in the comment section as well hit that thumbs up one
and you know if you have any questions about that
or need any more help like I said more than happy to help you Dave yes
Melbourne still has trams and Toronto still has trolleys and those types of
things a little bit different I mean obviously you drive your own tracks and
that sort of thing so it's gonna be a little bit different driving those trams
and trolleys but you know we can talk about that in another video
whatnot so yeah we'll just leave it there so all of you who have passed your
road test the last week congratulations on doing that if you've got a road test
coming up this week good luck on your road test this week and remember pick
the best answer not necessarily the right answer have a good night bye now
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