Frederick County's school busses have county system radios on talk group 5492.
I learned a couple of years ago that school busses were a great source for winter road conditions. The winter of 2020/2021 was an exception, but as the spring came and the in person school was starting, that's when the trouble started. Hybrid school with some students going Monday/Tuesday and others going Thursday/Friday created weird bus routes, and constant change as students would be moved between schedules and an early week stop changes to a late week stop. Summer school was expanded, which kept more busses running but they changed it up and you didn't necessarily go to the closest school, the busses didn't seem to have it together until the last week or two of summers school.
Now that school has started 100%, there is clearly a shortage of drivers, more than a week in, routes continue to change, some of them daily.
Finally, last night (Sunday at 7:30pm, the day/time matters) there was this strange call on the radio:
I learned a couple of years ago that school busses were a great source for winter road conditions. The winter of 2020/2021 was an exception, but as the spring came and the in person school was starting, that's when the trouble started. Hybrid school with some students going Monday/Tuesday and others going Thursday/Friday created weird bus routes, and constant change as students would be moved between schedules and an early week stop changes to a late week stop. Summer school was expanded, which kept more busses running but they changed it up and you didn't necessarily go to the closest school, the busses didn't seem to have it together until the last week or two of summers school.
Now that school has started 100%, there is clearly a shortage of drivers, more than a week in, routes continue to change, some of them daily.
Finally, last night (Sunday at 7:30pm, the day/time matters) there was this strange call on the radio:
