Fisrt Student Bus Taxpayer Waste

This bus was seen just hanging out at Shaw's in Middletown instead of transporting students to and from school. The bus is totally empty and the door wide open. This company is absolutely horrible and should not be allowed to operate further.

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[RENEGADE123Scorpion]

First Student is owned by First America which in turn is owned by First Transportation which is based out of the U.K. and they operate all of the public trains and bus systems in most of the U.K. and Europe as well. They have over 500,000 school bus drivers in the U.S. and Canada. Most of them are very competent and underpaid.

[Woldeb]

@RENEGADE123Scorpion

So now we are outsourcing our school bus operations to Europe. Glad to know my tax money is being well spent.

[RENEGADE123Scorpion]

@Woldeb These large bus companies are like "WalMart", they come in and underbid everyone else and snatch up all of the business. They offer cheap prices that no one else can provide. The schools and towns love to do business with these large companies because the money they save can be put back into pay raises for the superintendents and school administrators. If you don't like the service, blame your town officials and board of education. They went for the cheapest service.

[Woldeb]

@RENEGADE123Scorpion

Thanks for the info! It was very enlightening.

[RENEGADE123Scorpion]

maybe the driver is on break? Maybe they are waiting for a field trip or athletic trip to be over? If the drove a group to an athletic game or field trip, maybe they were told they could go get breakfast or lunch and come back at a certain time to when the group is ready to go back?? Why assume someone is doing something wrong? Bus drivers are poorly paid. You need a CDL to earn $18,000 per year and be abused in a high stress job. Garbage truck drivers make more.

[Woldeb]

@RENEGADE123Scorpion

And garbage truck drivers are a lot more competent than this company's drivers!  On my street, every truck has been able to go around for years without any problem. The two drivers before the current one had no problems negotiating the street I live on for three years. This current driver claims he is incapable of traveling the same route. Totally INCOMPETENT!

[gajda1984]

You are too busy judging those that work nickle and dime jobs. worry more about the tax evading billionaires that are better at evading taxes than Al Capone. And then hide behind politicians that say they are patriots and "Christians".

[RENEGADE123Scorpion]

@Woldeb You are welcome. Also, one more thing....with regard to home-to-school routes, it doesn't cost the town anything extra if the bus is sitting in a parking lot somewhere. The school negotiates a price at the time they give the company the contract. The price is a set price. They get a lump sum and if it takes longer, the bus company eats the cost.

[RENEGADE123Scorpion]

@Woldeb

Just because you had a bad experience with a couple of drivers doesn't mean you need to be rude and insult everyone. First Student is the largest bus company in North America. They bought out Laidlaw Transit a few years ago and Laidlaw also owned Greyhound Bus Lines, so now First Student owns Greyhound. They also own and operate the transit bus services (city bus lines) in several large metropolitan cities across the U.S. and Canada.

[RENEGADE123Scorpion]

maybe the driver is on break? Maybe they are waiting for a field trip or athletic trip to be over? If the drove a group to an athletic game or field trip, maybe they were told they could go get breakfast or lunch and come back at a certain time to when the group is ready to go back?? Why assume someone is doing something wrong?