Training for inter-city bus operators
is usually provided by the company hiring the
driver. Training includes safe driving techniques,
risk management, advanced and severe weather driver
training, driving for fuel efficiency, and in
some cases includes psychology and behaviour management
components.
Inter-city bus operators are tested at regular
intervals: driver training is, for most companies,
an ongoing process throughout the length of the
driver's career.
Greyhound buses keep their drivers up
to speed in their training programs. Bill
Shoults, who is in charge of the training
programs at Greyhound, keeps his drivers’
paws in gear.
“There are six weeks of basic training,
which includes 40 hours in class and a minimum
of 60 hours driving a bus,” Shoults
says. “We also implement six weekly
evaluations.”
Once tests are completed, drivers take
their buses out for ten days with various
drivers on their new routes. Once those
ten days end, new drivers have a probation
period of 120 days to complete.
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