Bus Drivers

A school bus driver carries her own stop sign with her when she drives. She can stop traffic whenever she needs to! Read about the many kinds of bus drivers in your neighborhood and learn how they help people get where they want to go.

Explains the dress, tools, training, and work of school bus drivers as well as special features of their buses.

Profiles the career of bus driver by looking at the work bus drivers do and the educational requirements needed to become one.

Nathan Vass has been driving a Seattle city bus at night for the last decade. He began writing a popular blog, The View from Nathan's Bus, about his encounters with the riders of the No. 7 bus, which cuts through the heart of the city's Rainier Valley, one of the most racially and ethnically diverse zip codes in the US. Nathan's blog entries grew into this book. His stories and photography illuminate an overlooked part of urban life and highlight the simple connections people make on a daily basis. His depictions of interactions on the city bus range from heartbreaking to hilarious to inspiring.

Introduces the work of the bus driver, who helps people by taking them where they want to go.

Provides school bus drivers with basic knowledge about medical emergencies. A few basic principles well learned and correctly applied will be of considerable value in meeting these emergencies. Deals with the basic principles of handling serious medical emergencies, but major emphasis is on the variety of minor injuries or illnesses that may occur while students are riding on school buses -- the ones that the school bus driver is most likely to encounter. Covers: spinal injuries, shock, poisoning and drug overdose, bites and stings, head injuries, mental health emergencies, breathing and airway maintenance, foreign bodies, and more. Illustrated.