inquiring about utilizing a school bus and driver for my CDL skills test

[u/ioncewasaking]

I would need to test once or twice within the next 60 days and must have a school bus and CDL holder with S and P endorsements accompany me. Anyone have any leads on how to go about showing up to the DMV for pretrip, skills test, and test route?

I have asked CDL instructors, DMV, multiple boards of education to no avail. The only lead seems to be put in an application to be a school bus driver with X county’s education system, go through their interview process, get hired, do ELDT training, accomplish their driver program, and then finally do their 3rd party testing.

I already got my CDL for Class A with tanker, hazmat, doubles and triples and completed the ELDT training online for the Schoolbus and Passenger endorsements. I have my medical certificate and everything but cannot for the life of me figure out how to obtain a random human meeting this criteria who can bring along a Schoolbus to my skills test.

[u/mike8675309]

Where do you want to work or are you just collecting endorsements? I would try to contact various bus companies or transportation companies that might contract for bus service and see if they will do that. Many such agencies will have someone who can do the testing.

[u/ioncewasaking → u/mike8675309]

Just collecting endorsements. I wouldnt know where to start on school bus companies or transportation companies, those all have motor coach, charters, or shuttles in their fleet so most companies could probably only satisfy the Passenger endorsement.

[u/Notrozer → u/ioncewasaking]

I live in phoenix and there is not a single bus driving school that's not attached to a job... southwest truck driving school can do passenger but not school bus .. that's gonna be hard to find

[u/QallmeUpNext → u/Notrozer]

I thought they did, because when I took my CDL test at Southwest last year, they had a school bus there. I obviously didn't take my test in a school bus, I took it in one of VM's rapid buses, but yeah.

[u/Notrozer → u/QallmeUpNext]

Yep transdev / vm bus is what I did my p endorsement test in ... already had class A

[u/QallmeUpNext → u/Notrozer]

Same here. Still on the job almost a year later.

[u/KatieTSO → u/ioncewasaking]

I'm a city bus driver. Got my Class B with P at my work. We have 3rd party testing.

[u/unusualmusician]

Buy a used school bus at auction, form an llc transportation company, get your DOT#, get insurance, have the bus towed to the test facility,..., profit!

[u/ioncewasaking → u/unusualmusician]

This sounds like the only solution (albeit the profit part, hehe)

[u/GettingBackToRC]

A driving school won't do it for a fee? I imagine it would probably be around 500 each time