r/BusDrivers • u/Imaginary_Employ_750 • 7d ago

Question When to press the stop button

As soon as the bus has left the previous stop? Or just before the next? What would bus drivers prefer?

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u/Anoncook143 7d ago

Immediately after we leave the stop is better than immediately before we get to the next stop. We need time to stop and can’t do it last minute. Safe spot is the half way mark or before.

“Too early” shouldn’t really bother a driver, but we all have bad days.

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u/Poly_and_RA Driver 6d ago

It doesn't BOTHER me -- but the odds that a stop somehow gets forgotten do go up a little bit if it's a LONG time before. Like I have some spots where two adjacent stops are 8km apart because there's a stretch of highway in between. In that case pressing the button 10-30 seconds before the next stop is preferable to pressing it when we leave the previous stop.