Remember that bus crash caused by the two moose that should have resulted in many many deaths but instead no one was killed? Well they fired the driver. But not because of the crash but rather because he ran the red light on our haul road. At shift change there's never any traffic and generally we yell at the drivers to pin 'er and get us home. But one of the other crews didn't like him so they reported him, and the bus company (so I'm told, this is very hearsayey) was happy to have the excuse to fire him so he could bear the brunt of the liability for the bus crash. I'm not sure how all that works but anyways. This is after they fired another driver at OUR insistence after he very nearly plowed us straight into the back of a parked haul truck. Another driver was fired, or quit (depending on who's telling the story), because he refused to remove his ball cap while driving. He was actually an old coworker of ours who is best not allowed back on heavy equipment. He liked to discuss his guns and ordnance while driving us to work. And once he sped right past a major bus stop so he could run into the IGA and have a poo. He assured us that this was the right decision given the circumstances and actually we all agreed.
So anyways, that leaves us with our current bus driver. Who was fired three times previously for various things, most notably his repeated attempts to commit suicide in his garage via carbon monoxide poisoning. We try to be extra friendly to him and often remind him of bunnies and babies and other things that make life worth living.