The ride is actually one long movable feast for the elephants and half the mahout's (elephant driver) duty appears to be coaxing them from banana trees.
It makes this the most credible Caterham there is for daily-driver duties.
Manhandling uncooperative passengers is certainly no part of a bus driver's duties.
Inside a dark room at Stanford University's automotive research lab sits a four-week-old, $600,000 driving simulator that will be one of the first used to study how drivers trade duties with their self-driving cars and how the cars should be designed to ensure the trade-off is done safely.
Mr. Wissak scrawls a long list of drivers on duty in a large ledger, in pencil.
At Commodore one day after violence struck close to home, no one -- not Ms. Turner, the other dispatchers, the 20 drivers on duty early yesterday or management -- could be too careful through Saturday's overnight tour, the busiest night of the week.
One of the tow-truck drivers on duty at the shop telephoned the police while the other went out with a gun to look for the assailant.
Additionally, it is often the sole responsibility of the driver(s) on duty to remember on the go which customers have radioed requesting pickups, while simultaneously completing pickups already on their route.
The people at Black and McDonald the company that owns the van were, shall we say, not too pleased about this video and relieved the driver of his duties.
The Marlboro ordinance, which carries a $250 fine, would exempt police officers and other emergency service officials who are performing their duties, drivers calling the police in an emergency and drivers who are parked out of the flow of traffic.
