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Seattle public schools suspend 142 of 600 bus routes due to driver shortage
- cratermoon 5y ago> compounded by the governor's COVID-19 vaccine mandate The story provides no evidence for this claim. I can claim, with exactly as much evidence, that the driver shortages are caused by low wages and the federal requirement that bus drivers, like other drivers in federally-regulated industries, must be able to pass a drug screen which includes marijuana. In fact: [Amazon] "is advising its delivery partners -- the mom and pops that operate the ubiquitous blue Amazon vans -- to prominently advertise that they don’t screen applicants for marijuana use, according to correspondence reviewed by Bloomberg and interviews with four business owners"[1] Also see Drug Testing and the Driver Shortage https://www.truckinginfo.com/10147001/drug-testing-and-the-driver-shortage https://www.truckinginfo.com/10147001/drug-testing-and-the-d... 1 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-01/amazon-s-answer-to-delivery-driver-shortage-recruit-pot-smokers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-01/amazon-s-...
- frumper 5y agoShortages for school bus drivers here in California all year. Definitely not primarily caused by a vaccine mandate.
- AndrewBissell 5y agoIs there a large proportion of people who were driving buses for the city's schools and have abruptly stopped due to new drug testing or low wages?