Passengers on a Greyhound bus mutinied and forced a dozing driver to pull over and call the company for a replacement during a trip from Phoenix to Dallas.
After noticing the bus swerving as the woman driver’s head nodded like she was falling asleep, passengers asked her repeatedly to pull over, but she refused to do so until the passengers forced the issue, The Washington Post reported.
Part of the approximately four dozen passengers’ mutiny was captured on video, which showed a man yelling at the driver, who tried to argue with him.
“You should have stopped when you were swerving,” he screamed as he stood over her, The Washington Post reported.
“So get off the bus,” she said in the video.
But eventually the man asked the other passengers what they thought, and they shouted that they wanted her to stop the bus.
“Call them,” the man ordered the driver, telling her to report her exhaustion to Greyhound. “Call them right now!”
After a several hour wait, Greyhound did replace the driver with someone else and the trip to Dallas was completed safely, the Post reported.
Greyhound told the Post that it has top safety ratings, but didn’t contradict claims that it doesn’t enforce rules that say drivers should take a break every 150 miles.
“We take driver fatigue very seriously,” Greyhound said in a statement about the Phoenix-to-Dallas incident, the Post reported.
In the same statement, however, senior Greyhound communications specialist Lanesha Gipson said that the delay caused by replacing the driver created a “domino effect” of delays and that driver resources were “tight” and “limited,” CBS News reported.
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