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Seeing school buses reminds me of 1993 (8th grade)... That was the only year I had to ride buses to school...

A quick question for you Josh? What music do you have the radio (if you put the radio on in the first place) tuned to?

About 90% of the time in Prescott Valley, it was tuned to 92.3 FM (which is now 98.3 FM, which is rap and hip-hop). What do you have it turned onto?

Smjh1979 wrote:Seeing school buses reminds me of 1993 (8th grade)... That was the only year I had to ride buses to school...

A quick question for you Josh? What music do you have the radio (if you put the radio on in the first place) tuned to?

About 90% of the time in Prescott Valley, it was tuned to 92.3 FM (which is now 98.3 FM, which is rap and hip-hop). What do you have it turned onto?

92.3 here in Pine Bluff,AR is the station out of Little Rock,AR that plays rap and hip-hop.

Smjh1979 wrote:A quick question for you Josh? What music do you have the radio (if you put the radio on in the first place) tuned to?

Usually "Radio Disney" for elementary or pre-K routes, for middle school and high school I usually put it on 100.3 "Jack FM" which plays a mixture of various 80's and 90's rock. The good thing about Jack FM is that there are no DJs. I will also let high school kids listen to 102.1 "The Edge" (alternative rock), but not during the morning route because at that time there is an expletive-laden morning talk show on that station . I never let them listen to any of the hip-hop stations, not just because of all the curse words but also because I can't stand it myself .

I don't get to drive that often, anyway. I work in the office and only get sent out as a sub driver in rare circumstances when we have an extremely high number of drivers absent. On average, I usually only get to drive 2-5 times per month.

I see...

As I said, I had to listen to rap for about 90% of the time. I kept on hearing "Change it to Power 92 (92.3)". It's now Power 98 (98.3). I wish I had my music back then...

The crowd I was around was 7th and 8th grade students.

Smjh1979 wrote:I see...

As I said, I had to listen to rap for about 90% of the time. I kept on hearing "Change it to Power 92 (92.3)". It's now Power 98 (98.3). I wish I had my music back then...

The crowd I was around was 7th and 8th grade students.

I rode the bus from 2nd grade to 11th grade. For me it was always the best part of the day !

Back in the '80s, during my elementary/middle school years we lived in central Indiana and our bus radio was always tuned to 99.5 "The Apple" WZPL, which was a popular Indianapolis rock station. Whenever I hear anything by Duran Duran, the Police, Men at Work, the Eurythmics, etc. I always think of riding the bus.

Lucky...

I wish our buses had AM/FM radio's. Unfortunately they do not. I think it would really help keep the kids entertained and not misbehave as much.

If we did, I would let them listen to "their" music (hip/hop or whatever)... but if they misbehave a lot... I would put on opera music or polka and blast it!

Polka...

Josh wrote: I will also let high school kids listen to 102.1 "The Edge" (alternative rock), but not during the morning route because at that time there is an expletive-laden morning talk show on that station .

What is that show called?

Mark & Brian?

Josh wrote:I don't get to drive that often, anyway. I work in the office and only get sent out as a sub driver in rare circumstances when we have an extremely high number of drivers absent. On average, I usually only get to drive 2-5 times per month.

It is funny how much Josh & I are alike. Even though I only work part time at the bus company (mornings only... I have a full time job in the afternoon and evening)... I too work in the office as the morning dispatcher and only drive when we are very short handed. Several times a month is about the average.

For those that are interested, here are 2 photo's of most of our fleet. We have about 200 buses on our lot with our daily route buses and 10 spares. We also have buses rotate in & out of our lot because our lot is the main maintenance garage for First Student in central Illinois. Lot's of activity!