The Passenger-Carrying Driver Handbook cover’s everything a passenger-carrier driver needs to know:

1. General Information

• Orientation and company policies
• Expectations of drivers
• Attendance, punctuality, and appearance
• Drug and alcohol policies and regulations
• Driver qualifications requirements
• Personal safety, security, and wellness
• Avoiding dangerous situations
• Stress management
• Diet and exercise
• Back safety
• Luggage loading
• General information review/quiz

2. Trip preparation

• Tip planning
• Vehicle orientation
• Vehicle inspections
• Boarding and alighting passengers
• Procedures for safe boarding and alighting
• Driver and passenger seatbelt use
• Child safety seat usage
• Pre-departure safety briefing and other announcements
• ADA and other special needs passengers
• Trip preparations review/quiz

3. On the road

• Safe driving principles
• Speed and space management
• Visual Search
• Mirror use
• Defensive driving principles
• Distracted driving
• Intersection hazards
• Extreme conditions
• Proper parking and securement of the vehicle
• Hours-of-service regulations and fatigue
• Fueling
• Dumping refilling lavatory systems
• Passenger oxygen
• Roadside inspections

4. Incident/accident handling procedures

• On the scene conduct
• Passenger protection and safety during incidents/accidents
• Communications with passengers during an incident/accident
• Basic first aid
• Fire prevention and suppression
• Emergency evacuation of vehicle
• Breakdowns
• Incident/accident handling procedures review/quiz

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