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Bus Drivers, School

Drive a school bus to transport students. Ensure adherence to safety rules. May assist students in boarding or exiting.

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

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Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

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Bus Drivers

Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Motor Vehicle Operators

Check the condition of a vehicle's tires, brakes, windshield wipers, lights, oil, fuel, water, and safety equipment to ensure that everything is in working order.

Comply with traffic regulations to operate vehicles in a safe and courteous manner.

Drive gasoline, diesel, or electrically powered multi-passenger vehicles to transport students between neighborhoods, schools, and school activities.

Escort small children across roads and highways.

Follow safety rules as students board and exit buses or cross streets near bus stops.

Maintain knowledge of first-aid procedures.

Maintain order among students during trips to ensure safety.

Pick up and drop off students at regularly scheduled neighborhood locations, following strict time schedules.

Prepare and submit reports that may include the number of students or trips, hours worked, mileage, or fuel consumption.

Read maps and follow written and verbal geographic directions.

Regulate heating, lighting, and ventilation systems for student comfort.

Report any bus malfunctions or needed repairs.

Report delays, accidents, or other traffic and transportation situations, using telephones or mobile two-way radios.

Report delinquent student behaviors to school administration.

Computer scanners

Desktop computers

Laptop computers

Multi-line telephone systems

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