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Request Congress to Extend OSHA Protections to School Bus Operations and School Buses.

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  • Oct 6th, 2012
    Someone from Brookneal, VA signed.
  • Oct 6th, 2012
    Someone from Bunker Hill, WV writes:
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    We can't drink even water nor can the children. We could certainly use an air purifier they make them for vechicles
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  • Oct 5th, 2012
    Someone from Bunker Hill, WV writes:
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    More ppl from the board office need to ride to see the conditions on a school bus!
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  • Oct 5th, 2012
    Someone from Hedgesville, WV writes:
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    The temp inside my bus has often been 112-114 this does not account for the humidity
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  • Oct 2nd, 2012
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  • Sep 12th, 2012
    Someone from Burleson, TX writes:
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    It was 106 degrees outside on Friday 9/8/12. Add 10 to 15 degree's to that on an un air conditioned school bus. Lets all ask Corporate or Congress to ride with us in there suits and ties. So we can see how many have heat strokes. Just a thought.
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  • Sep 12th, 2012
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  • Sep 11th, 2012
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  • Sep 11th, 2012
    Someone from Bedford, TX writes:
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    School Buses should be looked at by OSHA and protected. Parents need to wake up and realize that their kids ride on these buses and hold the companies accountable to take care of them like they tell them they do at the school board meetings. They transport America's Most precious Cargo.....our future leaders!!! :)
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  • Sep 11th, 2012
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  • Sep 10th, 2012
    Someone from Weatherford, TX writes:
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    If I have one child sitting in a hot car, I can go to jail, but if I have 30 kids sitting on a hot bus, it's business as usual.
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  • Sep 9th, 2012
    Someone from Faxon, OK signed.
  • Sep 8th, 2012
    Someone from Faxon, OK writes:
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    I have been driving for 28 years and yes it gets hot and the pressure builds. Its not bad if you are allowed to open the roof vents to let the pressure out of the bus, but we have been told we can't open them. Even with all the windows open there is just to much pressure. On top of that, drivers are surrounded by heaters that leak heat. Also, we are closest to the motor, which is creating excessive heat. My head starts hurting from the pressure, my sinus's are full of pressure, my eyes start hurting, my leggs are hot , my temper gets going. I can't stand it., you could have a stroke. The days not over and your exhausted. That in its self is a hazard, an exhausted bus driver. What irritates me more are the liars that make these rules (our drivers are being lied to about the vents) who don't have to drive bus's or never have and dont have a clue about the heat and dont care.. Heat is a health hazard, especially when you had humidity. We need to get all parents involved, because nothing will change until then, because your employer, like mine, sure dont. I am not concerned about an a/c on my bus, but I need to be able to use every means possible to vent the pressure and you have to use the roof vents. Its no different than your house or the weather when you have a ridge of high pressure , you can have 50 mph winds, but you are not going to get relief until that ridge of high pressure is gone. And let me add, you better put Obama back in office if you want any hope of things being done. Romney would just recommend firing you and down sizing, cuz your costing him money. I'm still angry. it was 109 friday and the humidity was so high, my head is still pounding and my sinuses are pressurized. I can only take so much medicine. In addition; maybe, we all should contact insurance companies and workmans comp, because when a worker gets sick because of this, who has to pay? They do. Its to their benefit as well for workers to be in healthy enviroments. They could threaten rate increases or something.
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  • Sep 3rd, 2012
    Someone from Madison, GA writes:
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    As a former Morgan County, Georgia School Bus Driver, terminated after reporting suspected child abuse and/or neglect, I can attest to the fact that some of the longest Morgan County school bus routes are NOT airconditioned while shorter routes with drivers with LESS seniority, are driving brand new airconditioned buses.
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  • Sep 2nd, 2012
    Someone from Madison, GA writes:
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    Our Children are at RISK: Heat Exhaustion &School Bus Safety
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  • Sep 2nd, 2012
    Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL writes:
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    5 and 6 year old children on 100 degree buses for up to an hour or more - bus has NO A/C.
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  • Aug 29th, 2012
    Someone from Phoenix, AZ writes:
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    I'm a bus driver in AZ and my route is 2 and half hrs. It is unbearable to me & one my kids.
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  • Aug 15th, 2012
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  • Aug 12th, 2012
    Someone from Round Rock, TX writes:
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    School Buses should be air conditioned. This Texas heat is unbearable.
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  • Aug 10th, 2012
    Someone from Clementon, NJ writes:
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    it should be mandatory for all school buses that transport students on the hot months of the year to have a working A/C !
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  • Aug 9th, 2012
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  • Jul 23rd, 2012
    Someone from Wichita, KS writes:
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    I drive for a great district but the heat in Aug. and Sept. is ridiculous. We had 6 weeks of 100+ days last year & recorded 125-130 degrees where I sit. I am on there for 3 hours! Kids are on for 45 min to 1 hr. This should not happen!
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  • Jul 17th, 2012
    Someone from West Haven, CT signed.
  • Jul 8th, 2012
    Someone from San Diego, CA signed.