I’m a school bus driver. I actually had the dispatcher last year tell me that it was legal to drive 5 miles an hour over the posted speed limit. I was like “so the posted speed limit isn’t the posted speed limit?” It’s amazing the crazy shit that gets into the heads of people that should know better – which is fucking everybody.
It should come as no surprise that some of my fellow drivers text, doom-scroll Facebork, and watch movies while driving the buses. I’ve never seen someone doing it with actual kids on the bus, but I think that’s only because they know the kids might rat them out for it.
Sure. It’s reasonable to say “you will probably not be ticketed for going 5 mph over the speed limit”, but that is not the same as saying “it is legal to drive 5 mph over the speed limit”. Hell, where I live you probably have to go 40 mph over the speed limit before the cop is even going to wake up.
i’d imagine many countries still have the “you can’t drive faster than is safe” rule anyways, i know we have it in sweden.
Like no you can’t drive 80km/h through 1m visibility fog, if you can’t see shit you drive at walking speed and appreciate the fact that you have a comfortable vehicle to sit inside instead of having to actually walk.
I’m a school bus driver. I actually had the dispatcher last year tell me that it was legal to drive 5 miles an hour over the posted speed limit. I was like “so the posted speed limit isn’t the posted speed limit?” It’s amazing the crazy shit that gets into the heads of people that should know better – which is fucking everybody.
It should come as no surprise that some of my fellow drivers text, doom-scroll Facebork, and watch movies while driving the buses. I’ve never seen someone doing it with actual kids on the bus, but I think that’s only because they know the kids might rat them out for it.
A few of them vape on the buses, too.
Speed cameras typically are set to 10%+3mph to account for variations in speedometers/tyre pressure etc. At least in the UK.
Sure. It’s reasonable to say “you will probably not be ticketed for going 5 mph over the speed limit”, but that is not the same as saying “it is legal to drive 5 mph over the speed limit”. Hell, where I live you probably have to go 40 mph over the speed limit before the cop is even going to wake up.
i’d imagine many countries still have the “you can’t drive faster than is safe” rule anyways, i know we have it in sweden.
Like no you can’t drive 80km/h through 1m visibility fog, if you can’t see shit you drive at walking speed and appreciate the fact that you have a comfortable vehicle to sit inside instead of having to actually walk.