SHORTAGE
Pennsylvania is getting a federal waiver to help ease a school bus driver shortage. Currently, the state Commercial Driver’s License test requires an “under the hood” component. It mandates that potential drivers be able to identify and describe 100 components of a vehicle. The waiver would let people have to identify only 90 parts and they’d also be allowed to have a checklist as a memory aid. Applicants would still need to do the other basic parts of the test, which include a pre-trip inspection and a basic control and road test. Officials say about 35-hundred school bus drivers are still needed for the upcoming school year. The waiver would be in effect through late November of next year.
