Everyone who performs installs over a long period has their horror stories. I have a top 10 list and at the very top was a district we were asked to install in about 5 years ago.
When I entered the first bus, I noticed food wrappers and piles of garbage all over the bus. The smell of urine was strong as I stood near the drivers seat, so I figured some punk had urinated on the driver's seat, so I sat my tool box on the seat and opened the electrical panel just to the left of the steering wheel and found most the electrical wire insulation was pulled from the wires and made into a nest around the starter solenoid in the pannel. Then I noticed the smell from the piles of rat droppings in the electrical panel and knew the bus was infested with rats!
There was so much food left in buses from the children who ride them that these buses were infested with rats, lots of rat nests and droppings everywhere in the buses. The school maintenance guys I mentioned this to advised me the drivers do not clean the buses. I asked how often they hosed the buses out, and they told me never. These buses had so much rat urine in them, before we started installs, I drove my install team (4 of us total) to a local Walmart, purchased 16 sets of coveralls, 4 for each of us, surgical gloves, disposable masks for spray paining, duct tape to wrap between the gloves and the coveralls and our boots and coveralls to limit the exposure to rodent dropping.


The fact that some of the Students With Disabilities & Special Needs Transportation Video Camera installations were so polluted with rat feces made the transport of those special needs children at risk.

After seeing just how bad it can get on school buses that are neglected and not maintained, our work installing Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera Systems to help make the industrial lift truck and high reach order pickers activites safer, as well as Terminal Shunt Truck Yard Jockey 5th Wheel King Pin Trailer  Spotter Yard Mule Camera systems to help prevent the trailers from rolling over duenot high hitch or careless operators both seems like a walk in the park. At least we did not have to deal with rodent feces, possible rat bites, and the stench of rodent urine.