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Cobb County mechanics tell school board aging buses, missing equipment and low pay threaten safety
Summary
Fleet maintenance employees told the Cobb County School Board they are short-staffed, working extended overtime and lack diagnostic equipment while many district buses and service vehicles are decades old, raising worker and student safety concerns.
Mechanics and fleet-maintenance staff told the Cobb County School Board on April 24 that aging vehicles, failing equipment and low pay are hampering safe bus service and driving experienced employees away.
The comments, made during the public-comment portion of the meeting, came from Eric Carroll, a fleet-maintenance worker; B. J. (Tinker) Bailey, a mechanic at Sanders Road Bus Shop; and Danny Hendricks, a 10-year district employee, who described long hours and understaffed shops.
“We're just pushed aside,” Eric Carroll said, recounting attempts to raise safety issues with supervisors that he said went unresolved. B. J. Bailey told the…
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