The incident came to an end quietly and without injury shortly before 9 p.m. in Marlboro, when 30 passengers who had boarded the bus from Philadelphia to Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal resumed their trip with a substitute driver.
Six-time champion Kenny Bernstein, a substitute driver for his son, Brandon, won the top fuel final with the slowest winning run of the day, 6.039 seconds elapsed time, at 194.41 mph, on a program dotted with 4.5-second runs at more than 320 mph.
"The principal threw back her head and laughed and said, 'Well, I'm a substitute bus driver for the evacuation, and I don't even know how to drive a bus,' " Ms. Rodrigues recalled.
I had already been used as seasonal and substitute driver, trained to step into a permanent role when ready.
Stewart-Haas racing named Max Papis as the substitute driver in the No. 14 for Sunday's Nascar Sprint Cup race in Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Paul Tracy was drafted as the substitute driver for Meira at the next race, but Foyt stepped into the car for his home race at Texas Motor Speedway.
So Greyhound's effort to hold down the drivers' wages strikes not only at their paychecks, but also at their pride, a pride that is further wounded by the company's paying top rates to substitute drivers with just a few weeks' training.
And management is paying the top wages to substitute drivers, rather than requiring that they spend a decade working up to it, and it has unequivocally assured them that their jobs are permanent.
Here as in many other cities, the courts have enjoined strikers from harassing the substitute drivers, and their passengers.
With almost daily episodes of sniper fire, windshield smashing or threats to the substitute drivers, the Greyhound strike is about as nasty as strikes get these days, and it does not seem that it should be.
Moreover, management has humiliated the men and women on the picket line in showing that it can readily find substitute drivers who, after three or four weeks' training, have shown that they can deliver their passengers, less expertly, but deliver them nevertheless.
