Originally Posted by ItsJustMe

Wow, TN is pretty laid back then. You do NOT get to drive a bus in Michigan unless you have a chauffeur license, and unlike the regular license, you DO need to know what you're doing to get it. I know a couple of people with the tests, and they said they were not easy tests, either paper or road.

Even when driving vans, even if there's nothing but equipment in them (maybe full of band instruments), you have to be a school employee or be OK'd by the insurance company to take them onto the road.