Bus Driving Videos
Please select your desired video from the list below:
Pupil Transportation
Basic Driving Skills
- PT5001T – Pre-Trip Inspection
Details up-to-date guidelines for this most important procedure. Includes extensive instructions for correct mirror adjustment. Complies with CDL Pre-Trip Inspection Regulations. (Run Time: 12:30)
play video - PT4002 – Loading and Unloading
Includes when and how to use light systems, how to stop at pick-up points, using mirrors, merging back into traffic and more. (Run Time: 20:54)
play video - PT4003 – Basic Driving Skills
Includes proper choke usage, braking operations, correct procedures for left- and right-hand turns and more. (Run Time: 19:00)
play video - PT4008 – Driving The Activity Bus
Helps the driver understand the added responsibilities and planning requirements for activity bus operation. (Run Time: 14:10)
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Behavior Management
- PT4201 – Understanding: The Key To Managing The Middle School Rider
A program designed to help drivers understand middle school students. (Run Time: 45:00)
play video - PT5005T – Keeping The Lid On It: Behavior Management Practices For The School Bus
Gives drivers practical ideas for dealing with minor as well as major problems on the bus. (Run Time: 16:30)
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For Parents
- PT4014 – A Safe Bus Ride: It All Begins With You!
A unique program aimed at helping parents prepare their young students for the bus rides to and from school. (Run Time: 12:30)
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Special Needs Driver/Attendant
- PT4501 – Introduction To The Special Needs Bus
Gives a complete over-view of the challenges facing the new special needs driver and attendant. (Run Time: 13:15)
play video - PT4502 – Loading And Unloading The Special Needs Bus
Demonstrates the use of wheelchair lifts, tie-downs, personal safety restraints and other equipment and procedures involved in loading and unloading special needs students; the importance of bus driver and attendant working as a team; and what’s involved when there is only a driver. (Run Time: 14:35)
play video - PT4503 – Evacuating The Special Needs Bus
Demonstrates how to evacuate ambulatory and non-ambulatory riders from the special needs bus. (Run Time: 16:15)
play video - PT4504 – Transporting The Physically Disabled
Describes the challenges involved in transporting the physically disabled, stressing the importance of allowing them to be as independent as possible. (Run Time: 16:15)
play video - PT4505 – Transporting The Mentally Disabled
Explains the behavior and attitudes associated with mentally disabling conditions. Stresses the driver’s role in the overall daily education process. (Run Time: 13:17)
play video - PT4506 – Transporting The Emotionally Disabled
Explains the behavior and attitudes associated with emotionally disabled students. Stresses a patient but firm attitude to maintain control on the bus. (Run Time: 12:25)
play video - PT5002T – Wheelchair Transportation
Provides detailed instructions on handling and securing wheelchairs on and off the bus. (Run Time: 13:28)
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Transporting Pre-Schoolers
- PT5003T – Transporting Infants And Toddlers
Uses NHSTA guidelines to demonstrate driver and attendant procedures for properly securing infants and toddlers in approved child safety restraints. (Run Time: 14:10)
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First Aid
- PT4006 – Driver First Aid
Addresses the day-to-day minor injuries a bus driver must handle. (Run Time: 18:30)
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Special Needs Sensitivity Training
Based on the highly acclaimed program developed and conducted in seminars nationwide by Ken Routson. In this program, each driver experiences, through simulation, the disabling conditions affecting special needs students.
- PT4510 – Transporting Students With Hearing Disabilities
play video - PT4511 – Transporting Students With Visual Disabilities
play video - PT4512 – Transporting Students With Mental Disabilities
play video - PT4513 – Transporting Students With ADD/ADHD Disorders
play video - PT4514 – Transporting Students With Orthopedic Disabilities
play video - PT4515 – Sexuality And Socialization For Students With Disabilities
Deals with the subject of sexuality on the special needs bus in a frank, factual manner. (Run Time: 9:00)
play video - PT4516 – Understanding The Dysfunctional Family
Gives a better understanding of the stress and emotional problems that sometimes lead to a parent’s uncooperative or hostile behavior. Drivers learn to be patient and understanding of both passengers and their parents to help them reduce or even eliminate problems. (Run Times: 21:00)
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Health And Safety
- PT4508 – Universal Precautions For The Special Needs Bus
This program includes information on preventing the transmission of HIV, as well as CMV, Hepatitis A & B, flu and the common cold. (Run Time: 10:00)
play video - PT4010 – Who’s Liable
Provides answers to complicated legal issues including the four conditions to be met to prove liability: duty, breach of duty, cause, and damage or injury. Sample court cases help drivers understand these terms and how they apply to determine who is at fault in the event of an accident. (Run Time: 22:00)
play video - PT4011 – Common Sense: Insuring Your Personal Safety
Stresses the importance of putting the twin tools of common sense and personal awareness to work to reduce workman’s comp injuries. (Run Time: 15:30)
play video - PT4012 – For You – The Veteran Driver
Looks at the strengths and weaknesses of being a veteran driver. Helps remind veteran drivers of the importance of correcting bad habits before they cause a serious problem. (Run Time: 25:30)
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Communications
Communications: It’s Not Just Talk is a three-part guide to better communications. Each program can be used separately or as a group. (Total Run Time: 36:00)
- PT4301 – Foundation Of Communications
play video - PT4302 – Why Do People Act That Way?
play video - PT4303 – Five Steps To Better Communication
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Defensive Driving
- PT4004 – Safe Driving Principles
Presents examples of potential driving hazards a school bus driver faces during a daily run and how to prepare for them. (Run Time: 18:30)
play video - PT4611 – Driver Awareness
Puts viewers “in the driver’s seat” as they watch 35 different moving traffic scenes played out in front of them and choose the correct or incorrect action. (Run Time: 36:00)
play video - PT4612 – A Matter Of Time
See what can happen when your attention is diverted from the road for just two seconds! (Run Time: 10:00)
play video - PT4614 – Alcohol And The Commercial Driver
Graphically shows how just 2 beers can affect a driver’s abilities. (Run Time: 13:00)
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Emergency Evacuation
For Drivers and Attendants:
- PT4007 – Emergency Evacuation
Covers the driver’s responsibilities for an emergency evacuation. (Run Time: 13:50)
play video - PT4503 – Evacuating The Special Needs Bus
Demonstrates how to evacuate ambulatory and non-ambulatory riders from the bus. (Run Time: 16:15)
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For all students regardless of whether they ride the bus everyday or just for field trips as well as all school personnel:
- PT9000 – In Case Of Emergency
Demonstrates proper emergency evacuation procedures for all bus riders: students, attendants, chaperones, etc. Also available in Spanish. (Run Time: 12:15)
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