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I’m not sure tbh. Different sets of paperwork that needs to be filled out. As for your other question, go with MTA Bus and get through the 10 day training first. If OA calls you after, then all that’s going to happen is you going back to 180 to do the paperwork and then they’ll send you right to OA. Don’t focus on the commute because there’s no guarantee that you’re going to be at a depot close to home. It’s the start of the year so your one guaranteed chance to pick into a closer depot is going to be system pick at the end of the year. Now if Zerega sends your whole class to one depot to start, it’s one thing and they will work to get you to your depot of choice. (In seniority order) But if your class picks and the last spots are in at Baisley Park or Gleason, that’s your pick and you riding it out until system pick. MTA Bus, you have Yonkers and Eastchester. Then the next closest depots commute wise would be College Point and LGA. If you have to go to LGA, all you gotta do is take the M60 over there. CP would involve getting to Flushing and then taking the Q25 or Q50 up there. Baisley Park is LIRR to Jamaica, then getting to Jamaica Center for the Q111, 113 or the 114. Ulmer Park in the AM? Go to Quill and get the shuttle bus back to the depot. All of these depots have express routes so if you’re getting off at 3 PM, all you have to do is figure out which bus is pulling out to where and work it out. With OA, you can try for a depot in Manhattan as well. Don’t stress the commute. If you or wifey have a car, try picking similar times at the same or nearby depot, so it’s not a burden to travel. Stick it out for the year. As for money, you’re gonna make money. Nobody goes home with base salary. Trust.

Correct. Queens doesn’t do system picks but SI (and the rest of the system) does.

Only MTA Bus operators can work at MTA Bus Depots. If you get hired as a full time operator: You can work at all MTA Bus depots except for Spring Creek, Far Rockaway and JFK Depots. If you get hired as a part time operator, you are locked to Spring Creek depot, until you are given a full time slot. After making FT, will you be allowed to work at Far Rockaway or JFK. You can also stay at Spring Creek. I’m not sure if you can be hired as a FT op and then put in a transfer to Spring Creek right away.

Nah, he got kicked off the team.

January 20th and every 2 weeks after that. Congrats and welcome.

Where you are able to work out of depends on your list number amongst your classmates. (Which is your seniority) You will then pick in seniority order the depot you want to go to, if it’s even available. Zerega can force you or your class to work in Staten Island or Queens if y’all are that lucky. (With the option to return to Brooklyn when it’s your turn to come back) If you do want to go to Staten Island or Queens, fill out the transfer request on the first day. Now with all of that being said, here are the depots you can work out of: - All the depots in Brooklyn and Manhattan (excluding Spring Creek) - West Farms, Kingsbridge and Gun Hill in The Bronx Every year, you can move around the aforementioned depots. ====== - Casey Stengel, Jamaica and Queens Village (You have to transfer in and whichever depot you voluntarily pick into is your depot for good.) - Staten Island (Transfer in but you can move between SI depots only every year) === Picking your route goes by seniority too. If a run (work assignment) matches what you’re looking for and it’s available when it’s your time to pick, you can pick it.

OA can work in the Brooklyn TA depots and vice versa. As a TA operator though, you can also be sent to Staten Island or TA Queens. Here’s the thing though: If you’re towards the bottom of your class for seniority (let’s say the last 4) and Staten Island has 4 spots open and the rest of your class takes everything else, then guess where you’re going) If you’re trying to avoid express, then definitely stay out of Staten Island. Only other TA depots that have express are Ulmer Park and Queens Village. Everywhere else is straight local. Driving express isn’t that bad though.

Yes, you need to pass training first before they will send you for the road test.

Yes, you’re considered a full employee on the first day, so enjoy it. Pass training first but enjoy it, lol.

Go without it tomorrow and tell them that you don’t have one. They should let you go to the post office nearby and get it.

There is no weekend diff. That’s just night time diff since you get it from Friday 1800 till Monday 0559.

Not sure, that’s above my pay grade. Again, I never had much problems in the single seater.

Update: Delivery due starting this month. All 23 to Charleston.

Nah. The 1/2 class finally got an assigned classroom. We’re not giving it up. 😤 No though. The 12/19 class is still at Zerega with us, there’s no room to fit a third class.

Delivery bikes are going to become your best friends like how it is with train operators and the rats.

I believe they’re getting hired from the exam that was given in 2017. I don’t think they were any more OA exams after that.

It’s been ongoing since December

MCIs will show up on the line. Just everyone happened to have a Prevost

Well that and when TA actually awards that order to Prevost. Those buses are part of the option order.

Correct on the latter. But glass is glass, anyone can make it.

Drug tests will come back within 3 days. Them setting you up for the medical is a diff story.

It’s the 2nd. The email went out today. There might be one on the 9th, I’ve been hearing that date thrown around as well. I’ll see whoever there on Sunday.

Yeah, 23 OA and TA combined on 1/2. They’re gonna run a day and night class concurrently.

Buses crashing from not maintaining control, not sizing up turns properly and not checking mirrors all comes down to lack of judgment… which is the operator’s fault. FWIW, the tags on the MTA Prevosts don’t turn much (if at all) either.

I think the error is stemming from the GTFS data saying that today is a Sunday schedule and the apps themselves not being able to override the Saturday schedules. (Since it IS Saturday and normally when a holiday falls on a weekend, the schedule is whatever day it physically is) It being a Sunday schedule on a regular Saturday (the observed holiday was yesterday) has been a first in a while.