Class B with P w/o S

Step One: Go to any DPS office, ask for CDL Class “B” book.

Step Two: Study and take Section 10 (School buses) Test

Step Three: Pass MISD Transportation level one performance qualification test. The test includes: Exiting out of the back door of the bus in 25 seconds, physically stepping through an opened emergency exit roof hatch and walking to a parked bus on the parking lot, and back on the second floor within three minutes.

Step Four: View all Transportation videos, sign up with Transportation for 20hr school bus certification class and DOT physical/medical card. Management may get you a temporary school bus certification card for six months if you have never driven a school bus before or if your certification has expired over two to five years. However, you must take the 20hr certification class within the six months of receiving the temporary school bus certification is current.

Step Five: Behind the wheel training with Transportation trainer - The training will take you five days (three hours each day)

NOTE: These six days of training are to prepare for your driver's license.

Day One: Transportation Orientation and wheel chair training- 6hrs This class is only for Transportation employees (Drivers/Attendants). It is not applicable to MISD coaches.

Day Two: Bus Basics Orientation

• Policies- (Dress code, cell phone, field trip paperwork, fueling, driving on the parking lot (amber/four way flasher usages, speed limits, CNG, child alarm system, Camera system and accident procedure)
• Bus orientation-( belt and whistle, mirrors, emergency equipment, bus log book)
• Pre/Post-trip inspection (air brakes, inside and outside inspection, mirrors adjustment and danger zones.)
• Turning radius

Day Three: Bus Maneuver

• Recap pre/post trip
• Air brakes
• Turning radius
• Legal turns (left and right turns)
• Tail swing
• Parallel parking
• Backing

Day Four: Railroad Crossing/Loading and Unloading

• Recap pre/post trip, air brakes, turning radius, legal turns (left and right turns), tail swing, parallel parking, backing
• Railroad crossing
• Loading and unloading
• MISD performance test introduction

Day Five: MISD Transportation Level Two Performance Qualification Test

• Recap pre/post trip, air brakes, turning radius, legal turns (left and right turns), tail swing, parallel parking, backing
• Railroad crossing
• Loading and unloading
• MISD performance test

Answer:

a. Emergency Stop Test

b. Rolling Right Turn Test

c. Alley Docking Test

Day Six: DPS Road Test Practice

• Air brake test
• Pre-trip inspection
• Loading and unloading students
• Parallel parking
• Straight backing
• Bus control
• Railroad crossing

Day Seven: DPS Road test day.  The Transportation training department will contact the DPS office to schedule your road test and contact you. We will then take you and the bus to the DPS for your driving test. Your driving test will be with a DPS Examiner.