I can guaranty you've been trained much more rigorously than most school bus drivers.
Not where I went to school.
Our course was a bit longer but we spent the more than the difference learning inspections of 2 vehicle parts, hazmat, and doubles and triples.
That's all theory. No driving.
Then we had to learn several basic backing/parking maneuvers that took the bulk of the remaining time.
The bus drivers got nearly twice the actual road time in a shorter course.
Then again, they typically needed it as they tended to be people who (rightfully so) didn't have the confidence that they could drive a big rig.
And you've spent a LOT more time in snow and ice than most down south.
I suspect the latter is true for you wife.
Not really true on the wife so much.
But yeah, 100 hours probably just this week.
Though snow and ice are entirely different beasts.
And I'd wager folks from Nashville to Dandridge have a LOT more experience with ice than where I'm from in Pennsylvania.
On my common route it tends to snow from New England to the Tennessee/Virginia border and ice from there to the New Mexico/Arizona border.
Even on the off chance you do know what you're doing down here, too many crazies that don't that I don't want to deal with.
I'll give you that.
Problem is everything shuts down so nobody learns how to deal with it.
Much like when you go to a touristy spot in the mountains and have to deal with all the people that can't drive in the mountains.
I must say it is my opinion that bus drivers, especially school buses should have to pass a very intensive adverse driving conditions test to get their passenger endorsement.
And only the elite should be awarded that endorsement.
Their cargo is much more precious than mine.
How does one calculate priceless*X where X= # of passengers?
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