Standby Drivers. 1. Standby positions will be posted and any driver with at least one (1) year or equivalent experience acceptable to the Transportation supervisor may apply. The most senior driver who applies and meets the criteria listed below will be offered the standby position. Any driver more senior than the chosen driver may request an explanation as to which of the criteria the senior driver failed to meet. A new standby driver must serve a probationary period of sixty (60) school days as a standby driver. During that probationary period, either the driver or the District may elect to return the driver to their driving assignment in their previous area with at least the same hourly bar chart time as the driver held prior to accepting the standby job. Temporary standby positions can be established for up to forty five (45) days, after which the standby positions will be posted and filled according to the criteria listed below.
Standby Drivers. A driver who is at home and called into work will be paid a minimum of two
Standby Drivers. The Contractor shall provide a sufficient number of regular qualified standby driver(s), appropriately trained in the transportation of special education pupils, in order to ensure uninterrupted service in the event of mechanical breakdown or driver absence. This number of standby driver(s) is not to include those drivers needed to cover for drivers on long term leave (over two weeks). No relief, standby, or newly assigned regular driver shall be dispatched on a route under this Contract without being fully trained in the use of any and all equipment needed to safely transport the students on the route (e.g., fully trained on operation of the lift on the lift gate vehicles, and proper methods of securing wheelchairs or other specialized equipment within the vehicle), and receiving a full orientation by the Contractor, as to the type of students (e.g., handicapped conditions of students on routes and specific procedures to be followed when transporting students with physical, mental, and/or emotional disabilities), conditions to be expected on route, special problems, and a review of the route sheet.
Standby Drivers. A “standby driver” is a bus driver who is regularly employed by the District but who is not regularly assigned to a route package.
Standby Drivers
