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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Here is an actual supervisory report about ME! (they had the wrong driver btw)


Someone had called 911 to report an operator that they believed was driving while under the influence.  The person said it was a line 58 heading to Beaverton TC.  However, the only 58 still out at the time had just left BTC heading to Portland.  Police did not feel the complaint was credible, but myself and unit 9115 still met with the operator.


When I spoke to the operator he could not recall any incident that had happened where another auto or passenger had gotten upset at him.  He did not seem to be under any influence at the time either.  I told him that Supervisor Coller called me and told me that Mr. Coller was behind the operator at Walker road and noticed that the operator did not use any kind of signals on his bus when he picked up passengers.  When I asked if maybe this could have been what the other person was complaining about, the operator said he always signals when he picks up passengers.  Then he went on to say that if he is at a red light and stopped anyway, that he sometimes does not signal because he is already stopped.  I told him he should always signal when he is picking up passengers because the light could turn green while he is boarding the passenger and other drivers will not understand why he is not moving.  He said he would make sure to signal every time.  The operator later came up to me and said there was an inbound 58 at the time of the complaint also.  That bus was garage bound and was now at the garage.  I looked it up and found out that 58/69 should have been pulling into BTC at 8:29pm. 

I did not see the bus pull in and Dispatch did not notice him on their screen.  While I do not know why Dispatch did not see the bus, I do know that he should have pulled in to the Transit Center before heading to the garage.  By the time we figured this out, the operator had already parked his bus at the garage and was off duty.  I will meet with the operator tomorrow and speak to him about not pulling in to the Transit Center before heading to the garage.

Line/Train: 58/70
Bus: 1764
Operator Name / Number: Allen Margulies / 2387
Incident #: 646351

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