Should I Stay or Should I Go?
(naturally, some of these reasons are better than others)

Nicollet:

pros-

• I like my fellow drivers better. And I miss them.
• For the most part, making relief (relieving a driver in mid-trip) is much easier.
• Closer to home.
• They leave these great paper towels that the mechanics use out for drivers' use.
• The work is generally more interesting; it's certainly busier, which means more stress.
• There's a sink in the drivers' room.
• Short walk to the dispatcher from the parking lot, helpful when running late.
• Satellite TV.
• No 5 line, no articulated buses, no short buses.

cons-

• Some of the dispatchers are, um, difficult.
• The work is almost always busy.
• I'll have fewer evenings off.
• Locker upstairs.
• Driver Groupie.
• 21 line.
• Less variety, approximately 35 (?) routes.

Heywood:

pros-

• Decent dispatchers.
• Locker on the main floor.
• Work isn't as busy. The work is really pretty good, overall.
• Cool work- driving past Lake Minnetonka is great.
• Better vending machines in the garage.
• No 21 line.
• More variety, approximately 60 routes.

cons-

• The not-as-busy work is often very boring.
• Long walk to the dispatcher from the parking lot.
• Farther from home.
• Fellow drivers are OK...
• Relief made downtown or Fifth Street Garage (long, cold walks this winter).
• No sink in drivers' room.
• Broadcast TV only.
• No nice paper towels for driver use.
• 5 line.

© 2002-3 cjc

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