posted by Shelley
My day started early with school bus inspection. Bus inspection is one of those things that you think I’d get used to after 20 some odd years of owning a bus, but it simply isn’t. There’s nothing like a good ole’ bus inspection for raising my blood pressure into the unhealthy range. Today was no exception.
I find it very odd that our school’s corporation buses aren’t required to have the same inspectors as we are — C’ville’s superintendent schedules the school owned ones to be inspected in his hometown of Austin, while he schedules the owner operated buses to be inspected in Seymour. I’ve been through the drill in both places — and let me tell you — Austin’s inspections are cake. I’m not sure if any of us passed today, I know that I didn’t, and I know of 2 others that didn’t pass either. I’m all about child safety, but c’mon …let’s be fair.
One of the things that I was written up for today was that my windshield washer shooter wasn’t positioned right on the window. Perry commented that he wondered if the safety issue there was the fear that a defenseless child might have an eye put out from a sudden blast of windshield wiper solvent. Heh. I’m also having a window replaced per their requirements that is too ‘foggy.’ It’s a side window that has been like that for at least 10 years and passed every time previously. I’m all for child safety — but some of the things that are checked are downright petty. For example — checking expiration dates on iodine swabs in a first-aid kit. Certainly there other issues a tad more important when you’re hauling children to and from school!