So yesterday I posted about a Phoenixville Area School District bus driver at about 4:45 PM screaming and cursing and yelling out his bus window at all drivers everywhere.
The comments I got made you think I had personally impaled Christ on the cross again. 
I was a passenger in a car in the lane next to the small white SUV. That small white SUV was on the line they weren’t over the line. Further and to the point, they were trying to back up to give the bus driver more room in the bus and people we’re not giving them enough room to back up.
No one else was yelling except the bus driver. And that is not acceptable behavior and that is my point.
I don’t really want to hear about how hard a bus driver’s life is. I know it can be challenging, but that does not excuse that behavior and that’s what we’re talking about the behavior. And face it at different points in time everyone’s life pretty much can be hard.
These people who drive school buses are charged with driving our children. And there are a lot of amazing bus drivers who are super sweet that everyone loves, and then there’s this guy.
And then, of course, there was that time a few years ago, when we were behind a Krapf school bus sitting at a freaking traffic light IN REVERSE. And oh yes, I saved that video.
We were all in traffic at a light on route 100 in West Whiteland and we were scared, yes scared, until the driver realized they were in reverse. We had nowhere to go. We couldn’t get into the lane to the right of us, we were stuck. That is not the kind of situation where you want to lay on the horn because you don’t want to startle the driver, because then they would have probably plowed into us when in reverse.
Road rage is kind of a scary thing. And it’s scary when you see it happen and you are stuck in traffic nearby. And that driver was raging.
That is not acceptable behavior for anyone driving. But it gives you extra pause when it’s somebody like a school bus driver. So haters are gonna hate hate hate, but I stand by my opinion.
I will note I was briefly down on the Main Line today, and I also saw some less than stellar bus driver behavior there. But I was driving not a passenger in a car, so it would’ve been unsafe for me to take photos.
Even small school buses are still bigger than your average car or SUV. I don’t pretend that I would be able to drive any size school bus, but I also think some school bus drivers have to be more aware of what’s going on around them and how their behavior might be perceived to other people.
Someone said to me well why didn’t you go to the school bus company or the school district. There’s no point because when you call either of those kinds of entities they don’t care and half of the time they don’t even take your information down. When I sent Krapf the video I took five years ago and even followed up with phone calls, I never received even an acknowledgment.
So save the hate mail school bus drivers. It will fall on deaf ears. Let’s be safer on the road and behave like adults.
