The Minnesota Public Transit Association’s (MPTA) 32nd Annual Minnesota State Bus Roadeo is Friday, July 12 through Saturday, July 13 in Marshall, and is hosted by Community Transit of United Community Action Partnership. This year’s course is at Southwest Minnesota State University, located at 1501 State Street in Marshall.
This Minnesota public transit tradition provides safety training to bus operators in a friendly competition setting. Operators are asked to perform challenging driving tasks around a course. Judges are setup throughout the course to score operators based on how well they accomplish each task and how long it took the operator to get through the entire course. Operators must also complete wheelchair securement testing and attend a training program over the lunch hour on Saturday. This year’s event also features bus simulator demonstrations.
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