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

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  • Aug 31st, 2011
    Someone from Bon Secour, AL signed.
  • Aug 27th, 2011
    Someone from Choctaw, OK writes:
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    I am a driver, seven years now, and I have driven for 4 days during over 100 degrees on a school bus and I have to quit, I feel faint and get spots in front of my eyes and told my boss, but no one to cover me, I am getting worried and we need help. fyi, my friend has an indoor thermometer on bus and it registered 117-118 degrees for over 2 hour trip,whether bus is moving or standing still for frequent stops. please help us
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  • Aug 26th, 2011
    Someone from Chandler, AZ writes:
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    Unbelievable. What idiot would not require air conditioning on a school bus? The school won't let the kids outside when it's 110, but it's perfectly acceptable to shove them in a 140-degree oven for the ride home? Morons. Our government is filled with morons.
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  • Aug 25th, 2011
    Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
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    Grant Money should be given to school districts to retrofit older buses with a/c. and the school district must report back to osha is to how many buses were retrofited and on site inspection of the buses retrofited with all work orders. or the school district will get a fine for misuse of grant money
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  • Aug 24th, 2011
    Someone from Summerfield, FL writes:
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    My granddaughter this year has been sick from the heat and it's only the beginning of the year. The heat here is dreadful.
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  • Aug 24th, 2011
    Someone from Belle Chasse, LA signed.
  • Aug 24th, 2011
    Someone from Leesburg, FL writes:
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    All Buses should have AC
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  • Aug 23rd, 2011
    Someone from Mandeville, LA signed.
  • Aug 23rd, 2011
    Someone from Desoto, TX writes:
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    They should at least offer ice water...
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  • Aug 23rd, 2011
    Someone from Mandeville, LA signed.
  • Aug 23rd, 2011
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  • Aug 23rd, 2011
    Someone from Mandeville, LA writes:
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    Air conditioning on school buses SHOULD be required....
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  • Aug 23rd, 2011
    Someone from Clermont, FL writes:
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    What are children and bus drivers supposed to do when it is raining outside and they are only able open the window a crack? That is not enough to keep cool in the extreme heat of summer.
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  • Aug 23rd, 2011
    Someone from Belle Chasse, LA signed.
  • Aug 23rd, 2011
    Someone from Belle Chasse, LA writes:
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    My son calls his bus "the tin can of death."
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  • Aug 21st, 2011
    Someone from Aurora, CO writes:
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    Not just school buses--what about schools themselves? They are jobsites, too!
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  • Aug 21st, 2011
    Someone from Aurora, CO writes:
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    Not just school busses--what about schools themselves? They are jobsites, too!
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  • Aug 19th, 2011
    Someone from Denton, TX writes:
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    110 degrees here in Texas today and my child had to ride in an unairconditioned tin can for 50 minutes each way--in the city with multiple stops in the hot sun. This is a real safety issue.
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  • Aug 18th, 2011
    Someone from Tulsa, OK signed.
  • Aug 15th, 2011
    Someone from Mauk, GA signed.
  • Aug 15th, 2011
    Someone from Box Springs, GA signed.
  • Aug 9th, 2011
    Someone from Tempe, AZ writes:
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    In the City of Tempe air conditioning is not required on school buses, regardless of the fact they often run when temperatures are well over 100 degrees. This is not safe for the drivers nor the students.
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  • Aug 6th, 2011
    Someone from Leeds, AL signed.
  • Aug 5th, 2011
    Someone from Chelsea, AL writes:
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    I drive a school bus in Shelby Co, AL. It's nearly unbearable in August and the windows fog up in the rain making it very dangerous.
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  • Aug 4th, 2011
    Someone from Round Rock, TX signed.
  • Aug 2nd, 2011
    Someone from Choctaw, OK writes:
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    most parents don;'t know the conditions their children are being transported to school such as overcrowding, exposure to illness and proper temperature control. Regular school buses have no air conditioning and slow and inadequate heat.
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  • Aug 2nd, 2011
    Someone from Rex, GA writes:
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    My son was treated for profuse sweating after nearly a one hour ride on a school bus home with no airconditioning. What a way to spend the first day of school. Also, a school bus caught fire on the first day here in Henry County GA. Thank God all of the students and dirver got off safely. This is a wake up call!
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  • Aug 1st, 2011
    Someone from Collinsville, OK writes:
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    no a.c. on our busses, yet they keep starting school earlier and earlier. This week is suppose to be 112 degrees b4 heat index. can not even begin to imagine what it will be like in the busses aka box ovens
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  • Jul 29th, 2011
    Someone from Chandler, AZ writes:
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    My daughter is on the bus for 25 minutes and is soaked by the time she gets home. I do not see how it is safe for children to be on a bus without air conditioning when it is 110 out in Arizona.
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  • Jul 25th, 2011
    Someone from Clarksburg, WV signed.
  • Jul 24th, 2011
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  • Jul 15th, 2011
    Someone from North Little Rock, AR signed.
  • Jun 27th, 2011
    Someone from Joplin, MO writes:
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    My children are overheating. It is hot and humid here in Joplin MO. My daughter is on medication and she gets overheated easily. I fear that she may have a heat stroke. The school will do nothing about this problem. I suppose air conditioning is not required and it needs to be, for the safety of children.
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  • Jun 14th, 2011
    Someone from West Palm Beach, FL writes:
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    My kids are on Summer Camp, and they are going to a fieldtrip today approximatly 45 minutes. They are being put on a School-Base Bus which does not have air conditioning. It gets really hot here in FL.
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  • Jun 9th, 2011
    Someone from Rosedale, MD writes:
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    75,000 for a bus needs a/c. stop by and put your kid on the bus my kids ride.its a joke.get off your a---- and do something. buy the way this is 2011, not 1960
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  • Jun 1st, 2011
    Someone from Marion, NC writes:
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    My son about cooked yesterday. He has Cerebral Palsy and was placed in a bus with no a/c and 95 degrees for is 45 minute ride home. It took three hours for him to 'come back to normal'. Please pass this petition!
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  • May 31st, 2011
    Someone from Marlton, NJ signed.
  • May 31st, 2011
    Someone from Medford, NJ writes:
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    Please do something about this now Congress!
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  • May 31st, 2011
    Someone from Vincentown, NJ signed.
  • May 31st, 2011
    Someone from Willingboro, NJ signed.