Driver Training Videos

Driver Training Videos

Wisconsin rural and small urban transportation providers, please call 1-888-560-3382 to borrow these publications or videos from the WTRC lending collection.

ATU/CDL Study Videotape

The creators of this video also included an audio-tape and two booklets that include a thorough overview to prepare for the CDL test. (Running time: 58 min.)

Bus Accident Drill and C.C.T.A. Rescue

The Cambria County Transit Authority developed a live accident drill to sharpen response skills of police, fire and rescue squad departments. Please note that this video comes without a voice-over narration. (Running time: 50 min.)

Coaching the Transit Bus Operator

Working with the public while driving safely can be very difficult. This video features a series of safe driving "tips" for bus operators. (Running time: 54 min.)

Driver Awareness

This video contains 35 traffic scenes that require drivers to determine whether the response is correct or incorrect. (Running time: 35 min.)

Drug Regulation Seminar

Bureau of Transit, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Stevens Point, WI, Aug. 2, 1989

This seminar discussed new drug regulations pertaining to transit, with a focus on rural transit providers. This is a four-tape series. (Running time: Tape 1 – 51 min.; Tape 2 – 1 hr. 45 min.; Tape 3 – 1 hr. 56min.; Tape 4 – 46 min.)

Essential Skills for Trainers

Federal Transit Administration

RTAP National Program

Training demands that you understand your audience and that you are able to incite your trainees to respond to and receive materials you are presenting. Listening to trainees’ responses is the most important goal of the trainer to determine the effectiveness of a training program. Effective trainers need to adjust to the dynamic situations that occur in the classroom. The FTA developed this training series to help you become an effective trainer or to enhance your existing training skills. This training module contains a video, a participant’s workbook and a facilitator’s handbook. Creators of this series recommend that you watch each section of the videotape, then turn to the participant’s workbook and complete the exercises. (Running time: 30 min.)

How Would You Handle Them? and What Happened?

The Metrobus

Des Moines, IA

Three common customer service situations that have the potential to be extremely awkward are featured in a video that trainers can use to help drivers deal with difficult customer service situations. The second portion of the video shows how difficult personnel problems can affect a driver’s on the job performance. (Running time: 18 min.)

Kangaroo Court

Ron Woods

Wisconsin Veterans Home

Public Domain

Ron Woods created this video to expose drivers and supervisors to the importance of receiving proper training and following correct procedures in lifting, securing and restraining passengers on their vehicles. Woods interviews three drivers and tests their knowledge of agency policies, regulations and current passenger assistance techniques. (Running time: 12 min.)

KINEDYNE

Kinedyne mobility aid securement and occupant restraint systems created this video to train and instruct regarding the proper use, application and care of their securement and occupant restraint systems. (Running time: 25 min.)

Project Use

Produced by: Tarbert Film and Video Production

National Easter Seals Society/Project ACTION

This video emphasizes giving individuals the ability to make choices in their lives that a nondisabled person makes without thinking twice. Frequently, ability means removing real or imagined obstacles that prevent a person with disabilities from leading a full mainstream life. Project Use strives to successfully mainstream persons with disabilities by having trainers help riders to become acclimated to using fixed-route transit. (Running time: 20 min.)

Reasonable Cause For Drug Testing

A Training Program for Transit Supervisors

Prepared by Batelle, USDOT, December 1989

This is a training program developed by USDOT for the front-line transit supervisor. This video clearly explains which safety-sensitive transportation employees must be drug free. These persons must receive periodic testing to ensure that they are drug free. Besides discussing the negative effects drug users can have in the workplace, this video also lists different methods for the transit supervisor to initiate the drug testing process for reasonable cause. (Running time: 22 min.)

RTAP Substance Abuse Awareness in Rural Transit Training Module

Urban Mass Transit Administration

Prepared by International Support Services

The video introduces the overall program and discusses what each module will cover in this training program. The Participant’s Workbook describes substances, how they affect driving and how people abuse them. The Manager's Handbook contains information on how to use the training materials. The handbook also teaches employers how to deal with substance abusing employees and how to establish a substance abuse policy at the workplace. An audiotape contains a complete transcript of the Participant's Workbook, curriculum reviews and case studies. Another audiotape included with the video contains a review of each workbook section and related case studies designed to supplement the Participant's Workbook. The package includes a final test employers can send to ISS, the RTAP consortium member responsible for developing the training module. ISS also will score and issue a Certificate of Completion for each trainee who submits completed examination materials. (Running time: 21 min.)

Serving Passengers with Disabilities

MTA (Maryland) and Project ACTION

Maryland DOT produced this tape for Project ACTION. It focuses on how to provide accessible transportation for persons with disabilities as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Beyond explaining proper passenger assistance techniques, the video also offers various tips drivers can use to help communicate with and orient passengers who have cognitive or hidden disabilities, visual impairments or hearing impairments. (Running time: 13 min.)

A Supervisor’s Guide to Dealing with Employee Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Facilitated by Dr. Jonathan Hayes

Dr. Hayes opens the video by saying: “Drug abuse costs the country approximately $60 billion to $170 billion per year in lost productivity.” He goes on to say, “Your employee who is a drug abuser has the capacity to produce work at a 67 percent rate of output.” Accidents happen to addicted employees and to innocent bystanders. Theft also is a major problem, along with drug dealing at the workplace. Besides creating a climate of addiction in the workplace, drug abuse also causes a morale problem. This is why a workplace needs an aggressive drug policy and prevention program. (Running time: 30 min.)

Train-the-Trainer: Passenger Assistance, Safety and Wheelchair Securement

Tape of trained trainers from a Passenger Assistance Workshop. (Running time: 44 min.)

Transportation Resources

This videotape created by a Wisconsin transportation provider gives highlights of the CTAA Expo 91 in Orlando, Florida. Particular attention is given to securement systems and lifts. (Running time: 22 min.)

Valvoline Driving Test Volume I

Hosted by Christopher Reeve

Eighty-five percent of all driving accidents are result of driver error, prompting Valvoline, the National Safety Council and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the American Automobile Association to create this video. It covers 25 questions worth 100 points. (Running time: 48 minutes)

Valvoline Driving Test Volume II

Hosted by Robert Urich

This version of the Valvoline Driving Test includes competing teams of drivers who compete and compare scores. The traffic examiners from Atlanta, Georgia add an interesting twist to the competition. (Running time: 48 minutes)