Dispatcher Flashcards
when operating near a school undergoing a fire drill you must not approach within
100 feet
when bus routes are blocked by fire apparatus operator must not approach within
50 ft from blockage
A school bus moving in the opposite direction has stopped on your route. You are over a headway late and are poised to pass your leader as recommended by a prior bulletin.. Your course of action would be to
Sound horn as you pass slowly
On a crowded bus at the operator you observe a customer engaging in a conversation with a passerby with his head extend from the window. You should
Stop bus immediately
Whenever operating a bus in reverse it is required to first locate a responsible person to be positioned at the left rear of the bus and to toot horn
3 times
the first responsibility of securing windows on the buses that are pulled in rest on
bus operator
while riding a bus on your way to make a relief you and the bus operator observe a student vandalizing the bus. You are to
make out an accident report
In case of an accident to a customer employees are required to obtain
Business address & phone # of injured customer and home address and home phone of injured customer
The sick year begins and ends
May 1 - April 30
The maximum allowed amount of sick days granted to an employee is
day per month and 1 day per major portion of a month
An employee with at least one year of active service shall receive each year
12 sick days
the burden for establishing that an employee was unfit for duty on account of illness shall be upon
the employee
no sick leave will be granted for an illness due to indulgence in alcohol or narcotics unless
unless employee is enrolled in a substance abuse program
an employee hired Nov.18 1992 and on the SLCL has a daily run reporting at 0830 hours; swinging at 1230 hours and clearing at 1620 hours. If he becomes ill at 1230 hours; stay sick for two days and has ample sick time available he will be paid from
Minus time from 1st day equal to 2nd day
Two employee go sick off of run. One’s run pays 8.00 hours and the other 12.00 hours. If they go sick 1/4 way into their runs they will have their sick balances charged respectively
3/4 day - 1/2 day
an employee with a run reporting as 0627 hours swinging from 1048 hours to 1126 hours and clearing at 1430 hours goes sick at 1048 hours this employee will have sick balance charge for
1/4 day
An employee with 12 years of service at 60% pay is entitles to
30 days
An employee with 3 years of service at the beginning of the sick year is entitled to at 6-%
0 days
To be eligible for 60% pay an employee shall be absent consecutively for a minimum of
9 days
An employee shall be counseled with pay if they have had how many unsubstantiated illness in a running rick year
5
An employee on jury duty form 9:00 am to 5:00 pm works an eight hour paying run on the same day. The employee shall be paid for the run at
Straight time
A valid reason for pulling a bus out late would be
Dispatcher assigned bus late due to bus availability
if an operator has any doubt about safely operating a wheel chair lift he should
Request retraining
Who is entitled to use wheel chair lift?
Any customer requesting it
What is the combined weight limit on the wheel chair lift ?
No restriction
If an operator is having difficulty using the wheelchair key, and a wheel chair customer offers an operable key, the operator should:
Use the key
Which is the proper order for procedure after curbing bus to word a wheelchair customer?
Engage parking brake, place gearshift into neutral,close the operator window, put the door control into the rear door position, engage the fast idle, activate the mechanism with the key, raise seat over tie down
all leaves of absence must be approved in advanced except
a death in the family
Bus operator Rodriguez has returned an accident repot missing information about the TA bus involved. The SLD should
Not accept the report until is complete
If a bus operator takes a promotion to dispatcher, how long does the operator have to come back before losing his/her preference status ?
12 months
A dispatcher in plain clothes reporting to work is stopped in the bus yard and asked to present his TA ID to a suspicious bus operator. The dispatcher should
comply and produce his TA ID
When on duty, a bus operator may travel to a relief point via
Train or bus only
Of the following, an employee in contact with the public, such as dispatcher, must be able to give information to customers about al but what?
Restaurants
What does it mean if a red lamp or red flag is placed at one or both ends of a bus?
Employees are on or about it
In case if ejectment of customers, how much force may be used
No more force must be used than is necessary to remove the customer from the system
During which hours is begging permitted on a system property
Never
In which order is authority bulletin board to be used for?
general ordert, bulletins, official notices, employees daily work assignments and job vacancy notices
The authority for the movement of buses is the
schedule
