WATCH: Jessica Clark learns how to drive a school bus

In need of drivers, St. Johns County shows it can teach almost anyone to drive a school bus... including Jessica Clark

[@rickprobst7555]

I've been a bus driver it's not hard just gotta remember to take right turns wider

[@jasonrodgers9063]

And USE YOUR MIRRORS!!!

[@osheagresham5577]

I’m thinking about doing it always wanted to be a bus driver since I was a little boy my love for buses never ceased and I love kiddos now that I’m a young adult myself ❤

[@jasonrodgers9063]

You'll be hired in a heartbeat! School systems across the USA are BEGGING for new drivers! Louisville, KY will need one more Oct. 1st, when I finally get to RETIRE!

[@michellejackson8259]

I just became a school bus driver 2 months ago, just in time for the first day of school!

[@me-pz5yi]

❤️

[@jasonrodgers9063]

Best wishes!!

[@sassy_Bree]

Was the tests and training hard?

[@REGULATORS_408]

How do you like it

[@milkcocoa718]

I’m in training now. Will be done with training just in time for school

[@josephmuthami4710]

School should employ driver helper to ensure safety of children

[@henrysullivan8389]

We have those in clay county Florida it's called a bus monitor

[@Lycan_24_7]

Dealing with entitled kids and Karen and Darrens parebt would be the biggest worries of doing this job in my opinion

[@jasonrodgers9063]

There's are certain percentage of that, but as a driver gains experience, he/she learns to deal with it.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I'd do this. I always love ginormous vehicles and feel safe in them! I feel exposed in tiny cars or on small things/bikes. I read an article on this, and laughed for a half hour when they wrote about "make sure everyone can see you..." the thing is yellow and black and 40 feet long. My father is literally almost entirely blind and HE could see this thing! Lol

[@eldoradoboy]

ha! while ive never driven for a school.. ive literally driven a bus before i drove a car... a family friend used to sell bluebird.. and I got to drive one. (a shiny brand new 1980 model at the age of 11..) i rememebr the first time I stabbed the brake pedal and it was just like her!! great memories... I own 3 classic busses of my own now..

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I got tears in my eyes when she was all excited to have driven it! Lol. I'd think you do it like a Ferrari at speed, come into the curve on right turns and get it from the inner edge. Reverse going left. Start turn on the RIGHT side to go left. Or swing out a bit opposite way before making the turn. Not sure how well that works in something this big, tho...

[@LavVenizalda]

you just roll over pal

[@paigecraig8245]

Uhhh, don't quit your day job just yet

[@casedistorted]

I do it, they can go fast but it better to go slower. They’re ridiculously heavy

[@evielknievel4972]

Thank you Jessica for taking one for the team!

[@alexartiststudios7981]

Well I think this is cool as heck I love driving I live big vehicles and I think it's also a skill! You can get paid real good with some bus companies

[@EliseRoss-di1ee]

I passed my CDL using apps. Now I will be driving next week

[@mykv4792]

Cameraman was like “let me out” lol

[@anniesue4456]

Wow in 3 minutes I call BS ... It takes about 3 months there are a few pretty tough tests and lots of physicals and background checks and you have to practice lots if turns!!!!

[@TheAndokid1]

Yeah I feel like they say 3 minutes just to get people for the job.

[@user-tb7rn1il3q]

It’s no different than driving a car with a boat or a moving van. Seriously no training is required.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Most states don't require it of its yours. Then it's no longer the C (commercial) in CDL. Some states have weight requirements. Illinois for example, is the lowest at 16k pounds. Hawaii is about the only one with strict rules. If you've been there, TRUST ME, you DO NOT want to drive the road to Hana. It's 8 hours of VERY challenging terrain. No guard rails if you were to go over. I wouldn't do it on a small motorcycle and I saw minibuses do it. It was crazy! They're all 2 lane, too! Nope, nope, nope!

[@Scott-got-caught]

​@@user-tb7rn1il3q the "training" is mostly compliance training for safety stuff. The driving part shouldn't be difficult if you've driven a vehicle and are confident in your driving. A bus is higher and longer but that shouldn't matter. It's just like with any car, you get used to it

[@JohnPiperBoots]

Hahahaha so cute. Yay she did it! 😁

[@Hamdalorian]

Now try it with a bunch of belligerent kids behind you that don't listen.

[@ElSantoLuchador]

Which is exactly why I would never be a school bus driver or a teacher.

[@casedistorted]

Ahhh they’re making her drive a fat nose, school bus which some people prefer but the flat noses are so much easier

[@panicclinic]

I WANNA PRACTICE DRIVING A SCHOOLBUS!!! LET ME PLZ PLZ PLZ

[@donnieabrahams6823]

Good job

[@iMr.Jetpacks]

Ay she did good for her first time! I always wanted to be a bus driver

[@jameshenderson3238]

"Hey Kid....Knock it off....ya hear?"

[@aleskyfinis1025]

Good 😊

[@flavianofloris4459]

Ridicoulos

[@Sisko1500]

Me load's GTA 5 & Fails

[@BusMaster99]

"The bus drives like a car except you use the parking brake a lot." You're supposed to use it everytime you park in any vehicle. Don't they teach this in driver's ed?

[@TheAndokid1]

It’s cause in the school bus you put it in neutral and pull the emergency brake cause there’s no parking feature on the gear shifter thing on a school bus.

[@BusMaster99]

@@TheAndokid1 Even with park, the parking brake should be applied, but many drivers just put it in park and forget about the brake altogether.

[@TheAndokid1]

@@BusMaster99 yeah cause an automatic car has the parking feature so the parking break is never really needed.

[@BusMaster99]

@@TheAndokid1 No, really?

[@TheAndokid1]

@@BusMaster99 yeah.

[@pattyoconnell1950s]

Do you have to be Covid vax?

[@chelseysantana5310]

No it optional

[@kojoowusu7009]

Nope you don't have to be vaccinated. I hope dey keep it dat way.

[@TheAndokid1]

@@kojoowusu7009 i think it depends on the school district, bus company, and the state. Here in NYS the local districts require all school district employees to be vaccinated or face a weekly COVID test that they don't even pay for.

[@acethedriver2895]

@@TheAndokid1 Florida makes it illegal for employers to force you to get a vaccine so Florida is saving jobs because of Ron Desantis .

[@TheAndokid1]

@@acethedriver2895 oh.

[@keegancan]

👍🏻 nice job going slow, as if you go fast you might not like how your body moves with it.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

You don't need a CDL to own one in most states. Because it's no longer a C if it's yours. Depending on state. Illinois still wants one over 16k pounds. I think. Hawaii, rightfully so. Roads there are a nightmare in the mountains. Don't do the road to Hana on big island yourself. Trust me. It would SUCK.

[@jasonrodgers9063]

True. But to get HIRED and carry passengers, trust me, it's VERY regulated (rightfully so- people's KIDS)!

[@marklintwo]

Too bad they aren't manual transmissions!

[@BusDriver71]

Used to be manual until the 80s. On the bus model in the video (Thomas C2), you can get a manual as an option which is neat.

[@willbrake9252]

Who cares

[@davidchunko1560]

Back when I was in school in the 90s 60% of our busses were manual stick except for the flat nosed bluebird buses now in 2022 there all automatic I think it's so they can get drivers who don't know how to stick shift plus today's buses are all electronics now and led flashing amber and red lights the doors are now electronic back in my day the buses all had handles to open and close the doors and now buses take def which is a special kinda fuel for eco reasons I think there trying to do away with diesel school buses to and go to regular gas for eco reasons

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@@davidchunko1560 I'll venture to say it's more b/c the diesel costs more, by quite a bit if you needed one daily. Also, horrible for the environment.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Why do something yourself if a very basic computer is a billion times better at it than we ever were? Very basic brain boxes have been there since, what, like 1981? And I've never had one fail or HEARD of anyone have one fail. I'm grateful for modern advances in safety and mechanics. I would have killed for automatic on a Gold Wing on the George Washington Bridge. I aged 25 years trying to do that effer on a 900 pound Gold Wing. It's one lane, very narrow, nowhere to stop, (but you'll spend the entire TIME on it stopped!) And it'll be just crammed. Plus, there's a nasty grade in there, too. Least fun driving anything anywhere in my...33 years driving. Runner-up, Tennessee Gap in a blinding rainstorm. Nowhere to pull over for what felt like a billion miles. Tho the road is very wide, it's very fast, lots of semi trucks going 85 and you could go right over the edge. Apparently, I wasn't ready to die yet, because I came damn close. Lol

[@thedemocrat3786]

QUESTION: DO YOU KNOW WHY YORK COUNTY NEED BUS DRIVERS SO BADLY?!.... SIMPLY BECAUSE ALOT OF BUS DRIVERS HAVE QUIT! WHY YOU ASK! BECAUSE THEY ONLY PAY THEIR BUS DRIVERS HALF OF ALL THE HRS. WAGES THEY WORK! FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU WORK 70 HRS. EVERY TWO WEEKS YOU DON'T GET PAYED FOR 70 HRS FOR TWO WEEKS YOU GET PAID ANNUALLY 49 HRS. EVERY TWO WEEKS! THAT SUMS UP TO ROUGHLY ABOUT ONLY ABOUT $1200.00 DOLLARS EVERY A MONTH TAKE HOME MONEY! IT DON'T MATTER HOW MANY HRS. YOU ACTUALLY DO WORK! YOU STILL ONLY GET PAID FOR 49 HRS WORTH; JUST BARELY ENOUGH FOR PAY ONE TO PAY THEIR REN'T! NOT TO MENTION JUST HOW MANNY BAR HOPPERS THEY HAVE ALREADY DRIVING A SCHOOL BUS!

[@kbledson1]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@AkwandeBhengu-ol8me]

Hi

[@AZISMYKINGDOM]

They pay the same as McDonald's no wonder nobody applies.

[@Saras232]

They pay 23 an hour in Chicagoland area

[@AZISMYKINGDOM]

Dam! Thanks I'll keep that in mind if I need a bus driver gig. 😁

[@mayhemjr.803]

Some school districts like the one I live in offer a pension. That's why I applied. Wish me luck😊

[@sassy_Bree]

​Did u pass was it hard whats the process

[@mastrogepetto7500]

"But... I cut the grass a couple of times..." Very good, you're a school bus driver and a grass cutter--that's a sideline... (extra income👍)

[@casmatori]

Shame you couldn't have found an American or even an English speaking person to appear on the news.

[@lynnhopson9400]

I❤the love and hate you and hate for you to have just