Imagine you are responsible for driving while caring for 50+ children who do not want to be there, and you are going to move them from a place they love, their home, to a place they may not want to be, such as school. When you pick them up they may be tired, sleep deprived, and dreading what they will be doing today as some did not do their homework; many would rather play hookey staying home playing with their friends or binging on TV series episodes or play online video games, basically doing anything with anyone else over where you are taking them.
In a perfect world, they behave and act in a quiet, civil manner, and there is no traffic, no stop arm violations, no unwanted interactions with the plethora of overly medicated, hungover, distracted texting while driving imbeciles passing the bus you are operating on your journey to and from the school.
However, in the real world, where Murphy’s law, “Whatever can go wrong will,” is more often the rule than the exception, things do not often go that smoothly, and chaos is more often the reality a school bus driver may face.
School bus drivers are often expected to be trained in mixed martial arts, referees, skilled in counseling, and have the perfect recollection of the movie character Robocop, who can rise to every situation and perform without error.
Examples of claims made against school bus drivers:
The bus was too early, so my child missed the bus
The bus was too late so my child missed the bus
The driver drives the bus too fast
The driver did not break-up a fight
The driver let other children bully my child
My child smelled alcohol on the driver’s breath
My child saw the driver texting while driving children on the bus
The driver does not stop at railroad crossings
The driver runs over speed bumps at high speed
The driver threatened my child with violence
The driver hit my child
My child claims the driver touched them inappropriately
So, how does your district help protect the school bus drivers you employ to prevent driver resignations over the trivial or false criminal claims and accusations often made against them in the performance of their transportation duties each school day?
The application of a digital eyewitness in the form of sequential, nonbiased, documented, and verifiable evidence, like what is provided in a School Bus Video Camera Recorder, can provide the mechanism for school bus fleet management administration staff to verify or disprove claims that may be made relating to the school bus driver’s actions, comments, or performance in their duties transporting children back and forth.
Schools are often faced with the same issues with false claims as are frequent in other passenger applications, which also use low-cost school bus cameras to support or disprove false claims made about their drivers in these other applications.
For example, Police Patrol Wagon Suspect, Prisoner, & Inmate in-Custody Transport Cameras are often equipped in the transport vehicles of law enforcement or the Department of Corrections when they transport those in custody or those prisoners from site to site, as a means to ensure the validity of claims can be substantiated in a form that the courts will accept and or a judge can rule upon should there be a crime or event that warrants that level of legal scrutiny.
Paratransit Driver Safety Video Camera Surveillance Systems are commonly included in the vehicles that provide Rural Transit, demand-response, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) paratransit services for those who in some cases, cannot afford to get from place to place, among other things, their medical treatments or physical therapy.
On occasion, those passengers may make claims about the driver’s performance and actions or conversations with them, and often, there is a need to verify or disprove those claims to defend a driver falsely accused or to reveal the video evidence that the driver did something wrong and needs to be dealt with appropriately. The sequential audio and video evidence provided by these Paratransit Driver Safety Video Camera digital HD recorders can often expedite the resolution of these claims, whether they be true or false so that management can take the action needed to resolve the issues.
Elderly Day Care Shuttle & Assisted Living Transportation Vehicle Video Cameras help verify or disprove claims made against the drivers by passengers who may not see things as clearly as they did when they were younger. With age comes the slow deterioration of our faculties over time and compounding. This is the propensity of some of the prescription medications to affect the perceptions of some of those using multiple medications, resulting in frequent he-said-she-said claims being made against the drivers.
When the vehicles are equipped with Elderly Day Care Shuttle & Assisted Living Transportation Vehicle Video Cameras, you now have the tools to document without bias or discrimination in a form that even a court can accept as lawful evidence in the resolution of the allegations that can be stored, for later review if any action is deemed necessary.
By incorporating Private Service Contractor Charter Transport Compliance Bus Camera Systems in your fleet of Private Service Contractor Charter Buses, you are incorporating the same video audio technology that is currently being used in the material handling markets in the form of Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera Systems that they use to monitor and document the activities of what OSHA has deemed the most dangerous employee activity in the US labor force, which is the use of forklifts in industrial environments. No other employee job-related duties seem to have the potential for employee injuries and deaths, and if these systems prove effective in helping drivers and operators of Industrial materials handling equipment, in resolving claims made about the forklift operators, and protecting the firm when potentially false allegations are made of damaged products or equipment abuse, then the same technologies can also help resolve driver allegations in other fleet vehicles.
Special Needs Wheelchair School Bus Video Surveillance Systems have been equipped in the school buses transporting those who require additional assistance in getting to and from the schools for more than a decade to document the professional and safe treatment of those students by those drivers and their aides in some cases from allegations that the drivers or aides have acted in a nonprofessional manner and in some cases the school bus video camera recorders have documented bus drivers and their aides abusing and torturing students who have no abilities to report what happened to them to their parents.
By adding to the special needs school bus, the same digital expert witness high definition camera systems incorporated in the 5th Wheel King Pin Trailer CS1 Spotter Yard Mule Cameras, you now have a sequential recording system of high definition with both audio and video that can easily be incorporated to help resolve claims made about drivers and their aides on special needs student charter or public school buses.
Even the low-cost, Affordable School Bus Camera Systems offer similar mechanisms to verify or disprove claims made about school bus drivers. In the same way, those claims made about NEMT patients being transported from site to site for their medical support needs can often result in reports or claims that the drivers of the NEMT vehicles may have been doing something they should not have done can often be quickly resolved by the use of the
Non-emergency medical Transit Camera Surveillance Systems record the activities of passengers and drivers in these vehicles the same technology can be brought into use to protect the drivers of the student transportation buses when claims are made that require review.
Should you have any questions or concerns or require more information about Testudo Lifetime System Warranty School Bus Camera Systems, various applications or Professional Industrial Grade School Bus Video Surveillance Camera configurations, please let us know. We will be happy to offer our 35+ years of market experience in sales and service of digital recording devices to respond to your concerns or questions.
