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Go talk to your local school district and see if any of their drivers would be interested in giving lessons. These older ladies (at least in our district) drive 45-foot coaches filled with 70 or more screaming kids though residential neighborhoods' narrow streets twice a day.
I was fortunate that, after getting bored with retirement from Boeing, I took a job as a coach operator with our county transit agency. It took only about 3 days (12 hours of instruction) before I got my CDL. The next day, I was horsing a 40-footer through downtown Everett rush hour traffic and it wasn't a big deal after the first 10 minutes of white knuckles.
You just have to learn the new perspective from the driver's seat, and it's really not that difficult. I find our 32-footer is no more difficult than our Kia Sedona. Unfortunately, DW is too short to reach the pedals, since the cheap Flexsteel driver's seat has no vertical adjustment and the equally cheap Ford steering column isn't telescopic. As a result, I do all the driving.
Our transit coaches (Gilligs) had steering column adjustability with two universal joints (one near the floor and one about 24" from the top) and the top section was telescopically adjustable. It could accommodate drivers from 4'6" to 6'8" tall. I wish we could have afforded a Gillig-based DP.
I was fortunate that, after getting bored with retirement from Boeing, I took a job as a coach operator with our county transit agency. It took only about 3 days (12 hours of instruction) before I got my CDL. The next day, I was horsing a 40-footer through downtown Everett rush hour traffic and it wasn't a big deal after the first 10 minutes of white knuckles.
You just have to learn the new perspective from the driver's seat, and it's really not that difficult. I find our 32-footer is no more difficult than our Kia Sedona. Unfortunately, DW is too short to reach the pedals, since the cheap Flexsteel driver's seat has no vertical adjustment and the equally cheap Ford steering column isn't telescopic. As a result, I do all the driving.
Our transit coaches (Gilligs) had steering column adjustability with two universal joints (one near the floor and one about 24" from the top) and the top section was telescopically adjustable. It could accommodate drivers from 4'6" to 6'8" tall. I wish we could have afforded a Gillig-based DP.