I approach a stop that I sometimes pass up without a ring or without anyone standing on the curb. Still no chime or no dash light. I coast without accelerating. I make the decision to stay in the traffic lane and pass the point of pulling to the right to bring the door to the …
Category Archives: The Art of Driving a Bus,
Big Mouths and Crybabies
“Big mouths run hot.” So says our elected leader in the receiver’s office before picking up my outfit one morning. Apparently, a common thread running through arguments rebutting a write-up for running ahead of schedule is that of complaining about other persons, places, or things like our equipment as causes for running ahead of schedule. …
EPU
The switch to pull-out off of track five never works when we a late. Or, if once in a blue moon the yard starter’s call to the overhead crew is answered, we have a working pull-out switch for three days. All the coaches behind the switch don’t trigger the selectric box because the boxes are …
Upper Yard
At the Potrero trolley bus barn, we have two levels. Unlike the Presidio trolley barn (which has one level and a tricky pull-out from track one and a pull-out to Sutter) the Potrero barn has many lanes of challenging tracks. There is a horseshoe U-turn maneuver from tracks ten, eleven, and twelve that can lock …
The Dao of Doug: A Bus Driver's Perspective 