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No, the other way around. Right turn is the most left turn lane and left turn is the most right.

Let me clarify, they are pulling records for the next class in September. List #66 is at my depot and they pulled his. So y'all should be getting notified soon.

It has historically been no more than 4 points but it may have changed due to COVID. Keep trying to get in contact for confirmation. @+Young+ can probably give you some contacts to try.

The crew or the general I believe will let you know when you need to go.

Next 15-20 are doing their drug tests right now. Class in about 2 weeks

Yes, you have to call them out and wait if they are in your 4 feet. If you follow them in your mirror and know that they're not gonna come near you, then proceed regular. If they're oncoming, they have the right of way. And yes, you have to honk your horn passing a pedestrian, bike or parked car. Or a car that poses a hazard to you as you pass. Opposite side traffic you do not have to blow your horn. But if you see that car on the corner and the turn is tight, then why are you next to the curb? You can get fat at any time, as long as you're not opening up the right side. Some turns will put you on the other side of the road because it's a small enough street. So the thing goes. The important thing is that you setup properly first, start turning and then adjust mid turn if needed. You're not gonna keep turning if you're gonna hit something, right? Many regular turns become pivot turns without you realizing it. No, but it depends on your supt.

I've been working the shop shifting trick for the past two weeks and has been el pillars in reverse half the time. Pivot turns are extremely useful. The only thing that you would have to watch for is tailswing on the opposite side.

The same right of way rules that you will follow in a car, follow in the bus, unless something expressly gives you the right of way. (Bus priority lane, lights, cops, etc.) As long as you're setup in the intersection, then you're already committed and completing your turn will not be considered running the light. However if you are behind the stop line / crosswalk and you start moving into the intersection and the light turns yellow before you reach your reference point, then it's a ran light. Yellow, red lights and trolley brakes are automatic DQs. (I mean they are any other day but still. Stay away from the trolley brake)

Yeah, they're the same. Off 14th Street is an acute turn, off Park is a pivot turn. Date you resign

If you are not next to the curb, then put yourself next to a fixed object. Parked cars, not active construction stuff will suffice. But if your fixed object moves, then be prepared to retake your right side again. Look at the door and guage the space. If it looks like a car can fit, close the gap. You can't do nothing about bikes and people in your 4 feet while you are stopped. (You shouldn't be moving the bus if they're next to you, anyways) For your turns, remember the wheels are behind you and not in front like a car. You will start your turn later than you would in a car and you have all that bus behind you to fit through the turn. Keep it straight until the reference point, stop to start turning the wheel, then go and follow through. The only time you will be moving your bus before the intersection is on hook turns. (And they will all be to the right, so you will only swing out enough to setup because you have the potential to open up your right side. Easiest way to clear a hook is to pivot around the curb. You will learn both of these turns this week and you will have both to use as choices in turns. Here's a tip though: if you have to make a right turn and you are next to the curb, its gonna be a hook or a pivot turn, depending on the street you're turning onto. It's not a guarantee that you will come straight here. SI just got 32 transfer operators last week. They have to process operators wanting to go to SI in the order they put in their transfer requests. Staten Island might be on the board when you pick depots for line training but if let's say there's 3 spots and they get picked before it gets to you, you're going have to put in your transfer request.

Day 6 is going to be between Midtown and the East Village. You will do the left from 14th Street to Park Avenue and the left from Park onto 25th Street. Day 7 is wherever the superintendent takes you. If they are doing equipment training on Day 7, expect to wind up in Upper Manhattan. East of 5th Ave and between 125 and 86th Streets.

You will do the 19A written exam before Day 7. It's an open book test, so don't stress it. You just need to know certain specifics (which is in the material) but the rest really is common sense. And by "drive good", that means don't give your supt a reason to DQ you. Your Day 7 is the culmination of everything that you learned and have been scolded about throughout the week. If you're making the same mistakes that you were making on Days 2-5, then it's not driving good in their eyes. They don't want you moving slowly with a bike anymore. You have to stop or move away to get them out of your 4 feet.

While line training, you will be out there in real life situations like you was during the 10 day. So the idea is to listen and learn but also be on your game because supervision can still hop on your bus and give you an undercover ride. You will be matched up with a line trainer everyday, just like @Flatbush Operatormentioned. If your line trainer has a run that comes in at 3am, you will be there too. So this will pretty much be the equivalent of working the XL. YOu will have the weekends off unless a TA holiday falls during the week. In that case, you will have the holiday off and will have to come in on either day. You will be notified of your schedule changes. Staten Island line training goes like this. You will rotate between 3 depots (not Meredith) for 3-4 weeks doing local line training. For 2-3 weeks after that, you will do express bus line training, which will include the routes from Meredith and the S89. At some point, you will do shifter training and express bus equipment training. When they cut you loose, you will pick depots (if possible) and you will be on the list until the next pick. Your schedule will vary depending on where and what you're doing. You will be advised on what time to report, but it will be AMs, until you get to line training.

While line training, you will be out there in real life situations like you was during the 10 day. So the idea is to listen and learn but also be on your game because supervision can still hop on your bus and give you an undercover ride. You will be matched up with a line trainer everyday, just like @Flatbush Operatormentioned. If your line trainer has a run that comes in at 3am, you will be there too. So this will pretty much be the equivalent of working the XL. YOu will have the weekends off unless a TA holiday falls during the week. In that case, you will have the holiday off and will have to come in on either day. You will be notified of your schedule changes. Staten Island line training goes like this. You will rotate between 3 depots (not Meredith) for 3-4 weeks doing local line training. For 2-3 weeks after that, you will do express bus line training, which will include the routes from Meredith and the S89. At some point, you will do shifter training and express bus equipment training. When they cut you loose, you will pick depots (if possible) and you will be on the list until the next pick. Your schedule will vary depending on where and what you're doing. You will be advised on what time to report, but it will be AMs, until you get to line training.

You keep your seniority/depot after the first year. Before that, the most they can do is rehire you. My classmate was a rehire and he had to start from scratch with the 10 day.

Yeah but head up there early to get a good spot. It's all of Zerega, Sanitation, the school bus company and the local businesses taking up parking.

There are some times where I do work a lot. The most I've done is around 150 hours in a pay period. Most in a day was 20 hours, just from being on report. Came in at midnight and sat for 4 hours. A 12 hour run and 2 slips later, it was 20.

As of late, nah. If I'm picking a 6 hour swing, I'm picking it to be lazy. 😂 But you are right, absolute killer way to make money, especially if you're stuck there. Your swing is your meal break. Like I said, my first swing was an hour long. My second swing was only 40 mins. I live 7 mins away from the depot but I would only go home if I have at least 2 hours. (or it's early AM where the traffic isn't that heavy) The 53 run paid 10:19. I was on the bus from 611-1023am and 439-649pm. That boils down to 6 hours of driving. The swing pays 3. Now I think in this thread I mentioned about runs with "OT built in". This is one of them. I got paid an extra 50 mins. There's a lot of finer things about our runs (and our contract) that you won't notice at the beginning that nets us extra money.

Usually runs don't get picked because it's not the weekends off, there's a lot of vehicle time (time with the bus) vs. swing time. You might be doing trips that are hard trips. You might be work working all day. You might be stuck in traffic half the time. Everyone has their reasons for picking and not picking something. The work during the week might be great but on the weekends, you get killed. I didn't pick it again (well couldn't because I got bumped off it anyways) because it was a lot of work and I spent ALL day at work. My swings weren't big enough for me to go home for a bit. It was great because it was a 55 hour run but I despised my Sunday work. I had two swings because that was the way the run was setup. I reported at 1pm, did a school tripper on the S56, swung for an hour. Pulled out, did a trip and a half, swung for 40 mins and then did 2 and a half more. The S40 serves the Amazon warehouse here and those people are different. 🥴 I kept my bus during both of my swings, so I was able to have extra time but still. I spent all day on the road. Your swing time is paid out as follows: If the total amount of swing time in your run is: - 0-59 mins, you get paid the whole thing. -60-120 mins, you get paid 1hr. ->120 mins, you get paid for half of it. Right now, I'm on Vacation Relief and I'm picking runs that pay at least 9 and a half hours with decent swings and definitely less work. Here are some of the runs that I've done this pick: S52/SIM33: A round on each with a 3 hr swing in between (545am-430pm) s53: Two rounds, swing for 6 hours, 1 round (6am-630pm) SIM33: 1 round, swing for 4 hours, deadhead to the city and do the trip back. (12pm-1130pm) Meredith XL: Report at 545am, standby for 20 mins, given run at 605, trip to the city, deadhead back, swing for 5 hours, two trips out of the city and done (605am-6pm) Second day of that: Report 530, given run at 730am. Did a trip to the city, swing for 4 and a half hours, two trips out at night. (730am-9pm) All of these runs paid at least 10 hours. Second day at Meredith paid 15.

To add on to what @Moody said, don't pick straight up for money or days off unless you have to. Because that run with Friday Saturday or Sunday Monday off didn't get picked for a reason. That 10-11 hr run didn't get picked for a reason. There's a reason why it's available to pick. Last pick, I had a straight run on the S40. 1pm-12am, school piece, 2 swings. Paid 1130 with Friday Saturday off. It wasn't the worse run in the world but I would not pick it again. Like at all. I could had made the same amount of money doing less work.

There's a lot of OT available and lots of different ways to make it. Some runs pay more than 8 hours from jump. Some runs have a big enough break time to where you can work extra. Some work their RDOs. Some work doubles. If you're on the extra list and you're on report and they give you a full run that brings you past the original time you were supposed to get off, you inhereit the pay of the run and your standby time becomes OT. Also, anytime you take an AVA/OTO/VAC day off, it's paid time off. AVAs, your personal day and your bday are a straight 8 hours, VAC days are at run pay and OTO days are minimum 8 but up to your run pay.

You accrue a vacation day for every month you work after you start. They become available to use on Jan 1st of the following year. You need 5 vacation days accrued to get a week, 10 to get 2 weeks. If you started this month, then you will get 4 vacation days to use in 2022. (And they will be single use days, since it's not 5 or 10) In 2023, you will get the full 2 weeks to use. AVAs, OTO and your personal day is all in addition to your vacation days. You get to have a max of 10 AVAs which you will get for working (or having a RDO) on any TA holiday. You get 1 personal day on the Jan 1st after you complete your first year. Your birthday will also become an AVA after your first year on the job. (And your bday is an automatic day off, if you wish or it's a regular AVA if you work) OTO time you build up when you work overtime. In lieu of being paid the overtime, you can add the time worked to your OTO bank.* You need 8 hours of OTO to take a day off. (and up to whatever your run pays, if you wanna get paid your run pay) Each depot is different in regards to putting in for days off. Most depots do it 30 days in advance, Staten Island does it 60 days. You can take as much time as you want off.* As long as you are in quota for that day (or it is your picked vacation week), you're guaranteed the day off. * The rules for using OTO is different depending if you are TWU represented or ATU represented. For TWU, you can accrue 104 hours (don't quote me) of OTO time but you are restricted to only using 9 days (72 hours) in a year. Anything past that is up to management. Also, when banking your OT for OTO, only the straight time portion of your overtime can go into the bank. The rest will be paid out to you. For ATU, max accrual is 72 hours and there is no limit as to amount of OTO days you can use in the year. You can bank your entire time worked for OT as well.

Your RDOs are your days off. The work week runs Sunday thru Saturday and you are guaranteed your two RDOs every week. Under normal circumstances, they are back to back.

That whole entire part was a joke. They won't check for any scars on your body.

You will do an EKG, they will hook you up to the machine and run it for a couple minutes. They will be checking your range of motion so you will be bending, doing some rotations, making sure your arms and legs are good to drive. Stop overthinking it. Although, they might make you run, do some hurdles, ride a bike, swim if you're lucky.