I have been training individuals for years to become School Bus Drivers. However, I could only train them to safely operate the school bus. There is a lot more that goes into driving a school bus that I have learned over the past few months of filling in for the local school district. Here are some of the larger issues that they never train for. #1 Garbage cans are the enemy. When you have a 40 foot vehicle that has the turning radius of a brick in a shoe box, you need all th

A CDL is a Commercial Driver License. A commercial driver license is required if you are going to be operating a motor vehicle with a gross commercial weight rating of 26,001 pounds or more, hauling a placardable amount of Hazardous Materials, or operating a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers. See the full definition here: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/faq/what-difference-between-commercial-motor-vehicle-cmv-and-non-cmv