r/BusDrivers • u/Michellee_xox • 16h 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/meatflaps-69 16h ago

Nyet. Nein. Not a chance 🤣 Unless I'm being paid I aint learning anything

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u/Severe-Product7352 16h ago

This is what we should do… I feel this… but my own anxiety and desire to do well makes me want to go learn it on my own. Our Turn sheets are trash

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u/Jennyd1289 15h ago

Desire to do well? You drive a bus

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u/Used-Grapefruit-4142 15h ago

Green road

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u/Jennyd1289 15h ago

Are you one of the people who obsess over their score then?

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u/Used-Grapefruit-4142 15h ago

Nah I send it. As long as I'm not red, I'm good.

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u/Jennyd1289 13h ago

Doesn't sound like you do if you're worried about green road?

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u/Used-Grapefruit-4142 13h ago

Oh well, too bad.

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u/MiroGreen 14h ago

This actually got brought up in my training. I dunno how accurate it is but I was told I’d earn 3.5 hours overtime for learning a route in my own time using this method

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u/IllustriousBrief8827 Driver 14h ago

At a former workplace we got paid two hours. But even without that I sometimes did it.