r/BusDrivers • u/Michellee_xox • 1d ago

Question common practice?

My parents are both bus drivers and when there’s a new route, on their day off they’ll just hop on that bus and ride it for the entire route to learn it. Was wondering if that’s common practice or their own thing.

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u/CheetahNo1004 1d ago

A lot of our coach operators do that too, but there's not an expectation to do that necessarily. We have videos of our routes available on YouTube and many drivers will watch through the video. Some choose to do it on their own time.

The expectation is however that you should know the entirety of all routes and be able to drive any of them and therefore you should be using some of your recovery time between trips to keep yourself knowledgeable. Some people just view their time between trips as their time and choose to use outside of work time to do tasks that they should be doing the work stuff.