Request Congress to Extend OSHA Protections to School Bus Operations and School Buses.
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Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Huntington, IN writes:
My bus driver told me today that my 4 year old is riding a bus with no A/C. She has a thermometer in the bus and she said yesterday it was over 110 in the bus. He rides the bus 40 minutes one way, that is insane to me. -
Aug 11th, 2016Someone from Anniston, AL signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Mesa, AZ writes:
Here in AZ I found out today (1st day of school) that my daughter's bus has no AC. I was shocked! Our temps can reach 100+ & with monsoon humidity, it is insane.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Louisville, KY writes:
Several kids in our school district were treated for heat exhaustion today. If kids, and drivers have to be on busses for 1-3 hrs at a time (sometimes longer) and heat indexes are over 100°, the busses should be equipped with air, or at least several fans, and kids should be aloud to have water on the busses as well. It's only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured, and one lawsuit could have paid for a/c or fans.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Lakeland, FL writes:
This is rediculous! It's torture to not have a/c in Florida on a bus with children and the poor Drivers!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 10th, 2016Someone from Thibodaux, LA signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Thibodaux, LA signed.
Aug 10th, 2016Someone from Thibodaux, LA writes:
It is Dangerous for buses not to have Air Conditioning/Heat for the welfare or the Drivers and the Children riding the Bus. Come on People don't wait until a life or lives or taken before y'all decide to do something. It is HOT in South Louisiana!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 9th, 2016Someone from Ravenswood, WV signed.
Aug 8th, 2016Someone from Wingate, NC signed.
Aug 7th, 2016Someone from Macon, GA signed.
Aug 6th, 2016Someone from Emporia, KS writes:
I have just finished my 15th school year as a bus driver here in east central Kansas. I love my job but when the temperature tops 100 degrees and the heat index is 105 degrees and you are in the bus for 2 1/2 hours you get so hot especially on the afternoon routes that it really effects your thinking and reaction time. We wear wet towels draped behind our necks to try to stay cool and they are usually dry by the time we get back to the yard. Air conditioning should be mandatory on all buses. Especially when training for drivers starts in early August. School starts this year for students on August 17th. Probably why the kids call the buses easy bake ovens....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 5th, 2016Someone from Madison, AL writes:
School is starting earlier every year. It's beyond hot in Alabama in August. My kids have come home the last 3 days red faced, bloodshot eyes, exhausted, and sick to their stomachs. We've been told that bus transportation is a privileged. I am disabled and can not drive so my kids have no choice but to ride these mobile ovens and suffer. A little sweat never hurt anyone but this is beyond a little sweat. This is borderline child endangerment. We are required by law to send our kids to school daily. Shouldn't the schools be required by law to ensure our children are safe and not exposed to such dangerous conditions? Today a tech school bus transporting from tech back to the main school broke down. For 20 minutes school held all of the other buses that were fully loaded with students ready to go home waiting for the handful of tech students to get a new business and return to the school.The fully loaded buses were not moving therefor it did nothing not even a slight breeze to have windows down. My daughter puked as soon as she got into the house.the feels like temp. was 110 today while all those kids we stuck there being unable to unboard.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 4th, 2016Someone from Emporia, KS writes:
This will be my 4th year driving a school bus. The temperature here in Kansas also get unbearable when my clock with a temp gauge tells me I am sitting in a 115 degree bus. Yes some of my students are not on my bus for a long time but I do have some that are on for over a hour and a half. I am on there for for close to 2 hours. I can tell you I go home feeling like a train hit me every day till it cools down.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 4th, 2016Someone from Seminary, MS signed.
Aug 3rd, 2016Someone from Williamstown, NJ signed.
Aug 3rd, 2016Someone from Ellisville, MS signed.
Aug 3rd, 2016Someone from Cairo, GA signed.
Aug 1st, 2016Someone from Newburgh, IN writes:
Been driving 18 years. It has taken a toll on my body. I believe some regulations & forethought could help.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 1st, 2016Someone from Evansville, IN signed.
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Aug 1st, 2016Someone from Willard, NC signed.
Jul 31st, 2016Someone from Weehawken, NJ signed.
Jul 30th, 2016Someone from Cairo, GA writes:
I drive a 2002 International Blue Bird for the Grady County BOE. We start school on 07/28/16. The average daily temperature here is south GA is around 95 degrees and the humidity is in the high 90's making the feel like temperature outside to be between 105 and 115 degrees. The bus I drive along with all of our fleet except for a few special needs buses do not have air conditioning. I am on the bus around 2 1/2 hours in the morning and afternoon and the afternoons up until around Mid October are just about unbearable. Something needs to be done that would make it mandatory for all school buses to have working air conditioning on them regardless of manufacturer date.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 27th, 2016Someone from Brooklyn, NY writes:
My children can spend up to an hour on the school bus. The results can be fatal when you combine ninety degree weather with non AC busses,REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 27th, 2016Someone from Macomb, MI signed.
Jul 27th, 2016Someone from Union City, NJ signed.
Jul 27th, 2016Someone from Weehawken, NJ writes:
I am particularly interested in changing the laws that make it mandatory to have air conditioners on all school buses nation wide. A three year old girl passed out on my sons school bus in the middle of a heat wave this past Monday. The children who are all special education children, sit on the hot bus for more than an hour on some days. After complaining to the board of Ed and mayors office several times we were able to get an air conditioned bus. Unfortunately, a small child had to pass out and end up in the emergency room before any action was taken. I live in Weehawken, New Jersey and most of the buses in my local elementary school do not have air conditioning. We must change these laws for the children, bus drivers and aides. It is the humane thing to do.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 27th, 2016Someone from Jamaica, NY signed.
Jul 26th, 2016Someone from Reading, PA signed.
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Jul 25th, 2016Someone from Lowell, MA writes:
I am a monitor for special needs and it is horrible to know that within this heat wave we are having to not have good air quality when even getting weather alerts in New England.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2016Someone from Henderson, KY signed.
Jul 25th, 2016Someone from New Kensington, PA writes:
I am a nuse on a school bus for disabled children some in wheelchairs it is not good to have these children on hot buses as they are compromised already and many have seizure issues brought on by the heat.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 25th, 2016Someone from Carlsbad, NM writes:
In the summer in New Mexico it get 110 to 115 outside school bus gets 130 I'm on the bus in the afternoon for 4 hours what would happen if someone was to pass out because of the heat and have kids on busREPORT COMMENTS
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