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Had to lay my truck over in VA after cresting a hill on a country highway at highway speed and finding a school bus loading up kids on the other side early morning. Made the decision that there was no stopping what was going to happen and had to take the truck into the median which was also a 7′ deep drainage ditch. Kept the truck up right for a few seconds but once those trailer tandems dropped in what was going to happen happened and the trailer pulled me into the ditch. So… I need some lines on trucking companies that may still hire me. I’m fighting Western Express off with a broom currently but they’re probably going to end up being my saviors. No tickets, citations, warnings, failed DOT checks, nothing, my record was clean up until this point. 21 moths of driving experience. Also this was a non hazmat wreck, I was loaded down heavy with some coffee.

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If there is a grass median or barrier (BUT NOT A TURNING LANE or CENTER LANE) between your lane and the school bus on the other side, you don’t even need to stop whether the bus had the lights and stop sign out, or not?

If road looks like this, you have to obey school bus stop sign/lights both directions. If road has grass median or barrier (instead of pictured turning lane) between opposite direction traffic you only have to stop on same side as bus, not opposite direction.

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