"Bus Nut" - A Vintage Educational School Bus Safety Film

[Psybur]

Why don't school buses have seat belts?

[policefan1971]

Good god, man. This is the scariest , trickiest trip to elementary school I've ever seen. The Warriors had an easier time bopping their way back to Coney Island!

[Rawr5649]

when I was in elementary school we watched this HORRIBLE scary bus safety vid. It showed a girl getting run over by a bus!

[saftlinerc2]

@jfs1988, it is a Thomas

[jfs1988]

I wonder if that bus was a Carpenter/Wayne. The chassis looked a bit like it.

[HippyHillbillie]

@jfs1988 It is neither. It is an International chassis with a Thomas body

[bed792]

is bus nut a girl or guy?

[beyo2120]

ok it said 1980 at the end..so maybe it is doesnt look it though

[seka1986]

@beyo2120 It looks like 1920.

[beyo2120]

i doubt this was 1980 looks older than that

[HippyHillbillie]

@beyo2120 the S-series International began with the 1979 model year & the S-series is what they used in this film. Either it is a 1979 or 80 model. Granted the film had an older flavor to it than '80, but I have no reason to believe it is any older than the copyright date

[kageosx]

When she grew up she became a rapper. Her first single was "All Over My Face"

[fbebeats]

22 people were looking for porn...

[appleintosh]

and this video was supposed to teach us what?

[frenchfrieperson1]

@appleintosh not sure but i think its supposed to teach you not to runi n front of the bus and road saftey?

[mercurygrandmarquis1]

do you have a video of ol #23 that you can post too?

[rewindablender]

ITs A TWINKIE!!! White people on the inside yellow on the outside!

[PurpleDinousaur]

what the fuck is this shit lmfao...?

[mariusbleek]

lol. i'd bus a nut all over that girls face

[Chenzel05]

That little black girl has a kickass jacket

[grudainc]

racist bastard lol!

[glasscitadel12]

that jackie is sweet, ain't it?

[glasscitadel12]

@Chenzel05 that is a cool jacket.

[1987ian]

it would be cool to have that bus nut shirt. they should sell it at hot topic. i wonder who that girl is now.

[TCBProductionz]

Suicide.

[thirtyworld]

I made my own.

[edgebet]

why not just go to a school that isnt miles and miles away then you wouldnt need to get on that old clunker and watch yer buddies trying to commit suicide everyday.

[Tr3ySw4g]

somethin about this seems very racist and cruel

[efcuttin]

The fact they have a little black girl with a T shirt that may say "Bus Nut" and imply as one who merely likes buses,but in the adult world who made it they KNEW EXACTLY what that phrase implies give it a racial slant...Unless a black guy directed it,then it's plain sickening...

[anilao87]

this is very boring, and dumb

[GFB102]

no it isnt, it helps the kids in pre-k and k and even gr.1-2 to show them how important bus safety is.. if you found this boring try and find the "death zone" video..

[TCBProductionz]

Still a shitload of fuck.

[Fafouin13]

Why not ''busT nut'' instead? lol

[ellocoforever]

@Fafouin13 Ahahahahaha

[Shanman91]

When he had that yellow shirt up to him, I coulda sworn that it said "10" on it, like OMG! Pele!

[dwi189]

That style of International came out in late 1978 or early 1979......I remeber when I was in Junior High back in 8th grade, our Schools district bought 3 new IH S series International Thomas.....They had the 392 V8 wit 5 speed manual. An International Loadstar Thomas was bought at the same time....345V-8 with Allison 4 speed Auto....this was probably right at the time of transition from the Loadstar model to the 'S' series.

[weasel884]

our school has an ol gas one it didnt last long we called her ol 19.best bus our school had a 1981 international with a 392.

[dalekrueger]

i remember our school bought 2 Sseries in 1982 or 83 with blue bird bodies,their first diesels

[AirForce194]

bust a nut

[Dmundell1]

"Good morning Bobby! I wish all the kids were as careful as you are when you get on the bus" YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME lol

[DavidRobertLaman]

I recall more dialog involved in "Bus Nut." What seems to be cut from this: Before Dad leaves, he tells Bus Nut Bobbie, "Remember to look up and down before you cross the street, dear."; after Mom helps Bobbie into her cumbersome coat, she says, "Take candy from a stranger, sweetie."; Mrs. Harris, before she opens the bus door for Bobbie and the gang, rolls her eyes and thinks, "Jesus, doesn't that little weirdo ever get sick?"; Mrs. Harris orders Bobbie to stop staring at her in the mirror.

[mroctopuslungs]

This is probably the most racist thing i have ever seen.

[RandomPurpose]

how so?

[Dmundell1]

yo this isnt racist at all....so cuz they are black, that makes the video racist? ignorant.

[Nesseight]

WTF! Nobody gets killed in this video? I kept hoping one of the little bastards would get hit but it never happens. One star.

[Canuckboy123]

But Amy got hurt once, and it bled. :(

[Streetcar1743]

That bus was built more like the early 1980s. The International was one of the first "S" series that came on the market. In this video, safety comes first! When a bus driver puts his or her stop arm out, motorists are supposed to stop, but sometimes they don't.

[warth38]

lol she looks like she lookin for her pimp

[deqian2]

I really think the wear on this vid looks fake. I mean, should there be stripes like that, they look like this was shot in 1930 and then the movie was used every day for the next 80 years.

[warth38]

could of been used alot >?

[bringouturdead]

that kid looks like styme from little rascals.

[AirForce194]

bustnut

[Stsfan7]

cry driver cry

[Acct1941]

That school bus looks like a 1974-1986 (They are extremely similar) International Harvester bus with a Thomas conversion.

[busrailfan]

I drove Blue Bird School Buses in Calgary, Alberta that had an earlier style than that bus had. The units that I drove that had an earlier style than the one in the video were built in 1977-78. The one in the video was probably built in late 1978 or later. Hope this helps.

[Besmerched]

lol one time my pass driver ran a stop sign and a cop pulled him over, we were all laughing to fkin hard.

[g2s101]

bust a nut

[synestheticmusic]

O_o

[roachcoachman]

bustnut

[jarrett798]

i am a bus nut i love school buses they rock this fucking world

[assholer8reloaded]

Real bus drivers run all stop signs, ignore traffic laws, smoke pot, and have sex with students while driving. I loved my school bus.

[K1ll3rM4st3r]

pfft you have spammed every bus related video with your shit

[KidVlogger317]

yah, my bus driver always runs red lights and one time he went into a opposite traffic lane because of a traffic jam

[jessisamadepressed]

My school FINALLY got new busses but the losers had to wreck it.

[bellydancer1970]

nice video, takes me back to the 70s.

[evolunacy1]

mid 40s? nice day to be outside?!

[bellydancer1970]

got to remember, in those days things were more easy going.

[squishedbananas]

buses kill more people alone in the US than anything else... KILL KILL KILL , ban buses.

[MiniPoof2Saddlebreds]

buses do NOT kill more in the us! What the the heck?!

[hutchensriley]

Montana school buses have stop signs that eject out of the let side

[jeep2003912]

New Jersey does too

[jessisamadepressed]

So do massachusetts

[bedfordpk]

Toronto buses don't (canada0

[copkillerXK2]

Mag.. Male ass grabber.. Fag means Female ass grabber

[Roushfan5]

Wow.

"Your dumb, crossing the street with out looking" before running out in the street, right infront of a car. Smart

[fordbuilder]

Mrs. Harris is HOT.

[copkillerXK2]

Get ur damn eyes checked.

[apguilbea]

what is wrong with u.... i hope ur bein sarcastic

[wtfanman60]

This is propaganda.

School bus: the black child's mortal enemy.

[03S10driver93]

lol, that was cool, yeah have you seen the new thomas busses?

[Locustx925]

watch?v=DkBsP1AhS7E

[Locustx925]

LMFAO@3:50. i would have done the same thing

[TheDoucheFairy]

my school is cheap we still have our 80's buses cause every other district has new ones D:

[bigasswhiteboy08]

eight and a half minutes of my life ill never get back...

[guod61]

very interesting but kinda boring but good vid

[hoody29]

Yeah, the School Bus safety videos are monotone to say the least, especially the older ones (case in point). The ones we currently use aren't much better

[panda123xo]

I want the 8:30 of my life back.

[mitchmcmichael]

So she WANTS to be a bus driver? She isn't aiming that high in life.

[harryrnpttr]

This is a really bad video 8 minutes just to tell kids not to run infront of a 2-TON BLUNT OBJECT TRAVELING AT 30 MPH NO SHIT.

[Intocable8306]

so ghetto but great! lol

[LaddyDongdegs]

I have the toy bus in the beginning, it's painted black, yallow, and silver as a failed work in progress.

[hoody29]

Niyou77... do you EVER think before you speak. Nevermind, that was a dumb question. Sorry, I lack an education nor am I a productive member of sociey. GROW-UP, AIR HEAD!

[danilesmithers]

i am sure they have, as i say, they are very nice, lookswise, but why use such an unqualified design, why not have stories behind a volvo b7l or a mercedes citaro or some american mark if you wish, but just in something designd for town trafic? hopeing for a busdriver or someone else with an answer to reply

[Luzern76]

Watch the film again and look for the cross-view mirrors. Children and other pedestrians can be see at all angles with those mirrors.

[danilesmithers]

hi luzern76, thanks for answering, im happy someone did. i took a look at those mirrors you mentioned, i guess i was wrong, you realy can see a lot. but still i am wondering, why the rest of the world uses rear engined busses (od mid engined) and american schoolbuses use front engines?

[Luzern76]

Have a good new year as well! I hope that helps.

[danilesmithers]

is there a specific reson or is it just a tradition? (i have never seen them in use for "normal" service as coaches or town buses) and also, you write that front engined buses are fine for rural or suburban areas, but i always imagined these busses operateing in urban areas, are there also other bustypes for use in the cities? however, thanks again for answering and have a happy new year

[Luzern76]

There are rear engined school buses, but front engined school buses are the most affordable. Many school districts are funded by a property tax levy. Poperty owners finance the local school system which includes transportation costs. The bigger the budget, the higher the tax rate. In larger cities, the money is taken out of the city budget. Also, private companies operate school buses as well. Some districts choose to hire these companies. The companies also want low cost buses.

[danilesmithers]

thanks, i didn't think there was a difference in costs... well, now i finally know why american schoolbuses have got bullnoses. thanks and all the best.

[harryrnpttr]

Some schools just don't want to spend the money, EX. I was going to a BRAND NEW school, it was even finnshed yet, with a price tag of around 2.3 MILLION dollars, and we where riding old blue birds looking just like that. I must say though at the end of my 8th grade year have the busses where new BRAND NEW blue birds.

[someone343454]

luzern76 you are right you can see all ponts of the bus with the mirrors only not the back witch i thank thay need back up monitors for the driver.

[crapper1]

school busses are cool man they got character each one of em has stories and shit behind em

[dlwfamous]

some of the spare buses in our has a special marking now theres 10 of them with no spare bus marking.

[danilesmithers]

(please don't get me wrong, i think they are very nice, but sincce several busdrivers posted here: aren't they terrible unsuitet?)

[Luzern76]

danilesmithers,

You can see the mirrors from 5:21-5:25, and at 4:13. Also, front engined buses are fine for rural or suburban areas. Transit style (flat front buses) that you refer to are better for city driving.

[danilesmithers]

(i'll give it the credit of being old on the high floor and the door but you stil operate front engines busses, don't you? do americans hope there busses will run over some children?)

[danilesmithers]

my goodnes, high flor, front engine, big, obscureing bullnose, manual gearbox, hand operated dors and worse only one, this thing has got all characteristicas of a long distance coach (with the exeption of the interior design of corse) and it was built especialy for service in a town, worse in one school district, where it never leaves town? who thoght or didn't think when the designed these things?

[telefishopolis]

okay that shirt obviously said "tun sub" this video is a lie

[hoody29]

Just because she was interested in School Buses doesn't mean she was "beaten as a Baby" or "Stupid". Have you not been reading all of the other comments? Obviously you all are interested because, you not only must have watched the video... but POSTED COMMENTS! So... what's wrong with you? Maybe her Bus Driver is someone she personally looked up to and just happened to be a Bus Driver. When you were kids, or younger didn't you want to do what your "hero" or person you looked up to did?

[Trublumatt]

Hoody29 your absolutey right! She's a sweet girl with a passion to drive a bus.

[Niyou77]

Actually, you're wrong. She's not going to get an education, which discounts her as a productive person in our society. Bus drivers are high school dropouts or people who can't speak English.

[someone343454]

you are wrong about that where i live witch is polk county florida ever one from white black mexican drives a bus here and you have to have a high school diploma and must have 5 years driveing in your personal car and you have 1 week class room training and 8 hrs of on road training than you can become a bus driver so you wonder how i know this well lets just say that i have drove around in a 84 passenger school bus and 84 kids is not all you can get on tham i use to have 107 that road my bus

[mitchmcmichael]

She wants to be a bus driver? She is REALLY stupid.

[Ooshbala]

what type of kid is into school buses like that? she was obviously beaten as a baby.

[Lycan2026]

What's wrong with liking school buses? I LOVE em', so are you saying I was beaten as a baby?

[Ooshbala]

yes i am saying you were beaten as a baby.

[someone343454]

i love school buses and wonted to drive tham ever since i was prob about 7 or 8 OH NO I WAS BEATEN AS A BABY. wrong guess again my mom grandmom aunt and outer memebers of my fmaily drove a bus and guess what i drove one of tham busses and yes i liked it and no i am not a driver no more cues i am driveing big rigs now so yall get a life the ones that are bad mouthing school bus drivers cues you dont know the shit that thay go threw to safely get your snotty nose brats to scool and home

[Niyou77]

Agreed.

[chagy05]

All school buses in our county In West Virginia are stick shifts ! Brand new 07's also ! Its for safety

[hoody29]

Plus... it's not really hard to drive Double-Clutch... but it does take some practice, especially in a School Bus with all the other things you have to do

[hoody29]

Yeah... I agree, but alot of School Bus tranny's are synchronized. Very few are unsynched. It's still easier to double-clutch to shift, but not required. The Bus in the video is probably one of them. My Mom and Gram's buses were the same kinds (1980-1989 model IHC S model chassis)

[KB1KOI]

WOW, a bus with a stick shift.

[hoody29]

On a funnier side note, I sent this video to a few friends, including my Boss and told her that Mrs. Harris reminded me of her; as a Joke. She replied back that I reminded her of little Joey Adams, because no matter how many times she yells at me I still don't listen.... LOL! Just wanted to share

[hoody29]

Yes... it was. 1979 IHC S1800/Thomas. Read my first comment below. This film was made in 1980, so this bus was only 1 year old.

[Luzern76]

S-Series -- King of all school buses! I rode on an S1700 one year. It was a 1983 Ward with a 4 speed manual. I remember the old Loadstars as well.

[jefferyb304]

cool

[ClassicTVFan82]

That IH S-1853 with a Thomas body (?) appears to be fairly new at the time this film was made.

[Luzern76]

I've driven Thomas school buses. Unfortunately, the quality has gone downhill over the past 8-10 years (wiring, switches, etc.) The Freightliner hoods also crack easily. Thomas used to build quality buses. It's a shame, really.

[summerdude]

at my school district, we have blue bird busses. They are like the newer 2 year old or so ones with the engines in the back.

[hoody29]

If you've never done the job... then who are you to comment. Alot of us are College graduates (like me) who could be making $50,000 or more a year. Alot of us do this because someone in our family also drives or drove School Bus (again, like me). Last comment was VERY assenine, but everyone's entitled to their opinion

[XgenArea51]

Way to aim high!

A bus driver seriously?

[supreme2005]

My mom has been a schoolbus driver for 10 years and she says that seat belts on school buses would do more harm than good in a crash. They would trap the passengers in their seats and the driver would have to go through and make sure everyone got out okay. Think of the nightmare that would be in a bus full of say kindergarteners. It's just easier without them.  School buses are actually the safest form of transportation there is anyway.

[someone343454]

i agree with your mom thay need to take seat belts out of school buses. to make my point lets say thay ran off the road in to a lake with tham kindergartrners looks like to me that the kids would drown i dont thank one person can pull over 90 kids out of a seat belt and all wile the bus is under water i dont thank so so yeah out with seat belts

[RPWproductions]

or have an auto release, if they all hit the roof and get knocked out they're just as helpless

[someone343454]

yeah i do agree thean that means busses are not safe at all

[johnmartinez123]

If cars go underwater, you have a problem. Maybe they should not have seat belts either?

[someone343454]

well tell the truth no car bus truck are safe no matter how you look at it

[hoody29]

Be thankful School Buses have now what they do. When I started School (1990) buses in PA weren't required to have crossing gates OR Stop signs. In fact, out of our fleet of 20 buses at our School, only 1 had a stop sign, until like 1993. The bus in this Video came from Welsh Equipment which contracted in the State College School District before State College did their own buses. The district used this bus for a LONG time... I've actually seen it in person. It's nice for being a 1979 model.

[langlebl]

They don't put belts on school busses because they don't need them. The seats backs are high and cushioned incase there is impact with something, and the cabin is set high, so passengers are sitting above the impact if something was to hit the bus. With seatbelts, the passengers would have to go through the hassle of taking them off in the event they need to get off the bus in a hurry. Kids today would be using them to beat each other, strangle each other, and break glass.

[Matteo42]

They're not gonna put seatbelts on school buses. That itself is a major safty issue. Whats next seatbelts on transit buses?

[someone343454]

hey come to polk county all the new busses have seat belts

[xcryinginrainxx]

Nice how this video can teach Bus safety, but how about seatbelts? This video's old but still, how come they never thought of putting seatbelts on a bus with 15+ children that drive through streets where anyone can hit the bus and injure or kill someone? What the fuck prevented them from putting seatbelts?

[someone343454]

thay dont need tham cues the bus is made of steal

[azarmoe]

I remember stick shift buses. My concern now and in the future is the use of seat belts on the bus. Kids don't like to put them on, and you can't force them to! It's a problem!

[kittywentcuckoo]

well, now. that was certainly amusing. XD

[mitchmcmichael]

I want to punch that girl.

[s0uperp00p]

where do you keep finding all these videos?

[Tyler6688]

lol

[mitchmcmichael]

she shook her head 7 times.

[Mariamousie]

God help the children of the future who ride on "Bus Nut's" bus...

[someone343454]

why?

[XxDARKESTHOURxX]

I loved ol 23 better

[cmarlow330]

wow lol School bus's were stick shift back then? and im shocked they didnt have stop signs on the bus back in 1980 like we do now!!

[SheriffGeneralStoner]

Ohio had them stop signs on school buses as far back as the late 60's

[christopherdork]

Yes, they were stick shift. The really old ones (and maybe this one too, I think) had unsynchronized transmissions that had to be double-clutched.

[cmarlow330]

Un Synched Trannys?????

Double Clutched?????

[christopherdork]

Yeah, in a modern car you just shift from gear to gear. In a big bus or truck, you had to manually synchronize the drive shaft and the transmission by waiting in neutral or reving the engine in neutral between gears. It takes practice to learn to shift without grinding.

[cmarlow330]

wow....... it just looked like she was just changing gears and wasnt going back to neutral

hmm..... Interesting though!

--- cm

[christopherdork]

She kinda hesitated between 2nd and 3rd long enough to be double clutching--it goes about that rhythm.

I can't actually believe I'm relieving this part of my youth.  Thank you for indulging me in it. :)

[cmarlow330]

I just cant picture that

be going downt he road......... 1st..... then go into NEUTRAL then 2nd..... then NEUTRAL then 3rd lol.... be like ROLLING for a few sec when you go back into neutral lol before the next gear

haha your welcome

[christopherdork]

That's it. Clutch in, shift from 2nd to neutral, wait a couple seconds (knowing exactly how long is the hard part--and, if you get it wrong, the gears grind and won't go in), clutch in again and shift to 3rd. To downshift, you rev the engine in neutral, which also takes practice to get just right. It's kinda fun once you get the hang of it.

[cmarlow330]

lol wow

[christopherdork]

The lady in the video with those old 1960's glasses does it very smoothly.

And they thought that little girl was the bus nut!

[cmarlow330]

lol its hard to belive this was from 1980

geeeeeeeeez.... lol 4 years before my time lol

yep the little girl was the bus nut lol

[zymaymyn]

Did you notice you typed "but nut"?

[thefollowersoflight]

How bizarre...

[mitchmcmichael]

just watched this on your website.Great site.