i think bus drivers are trained to drive certain routes. you can't possibly remember all the routes to drive, so you'd have to be assigned to only a few at the most.

I'm not speaking of routes, but rather the actual physical bus itself. Does each driver always drive the same actual bus every day?

i don't know. but i think they use the same buses for the routes each time. there's a 146 bus that i am on a lot, that has a sticker on the back door that says "You have everything if you have Christ." it's from Colossians. the only reason i know this is because i have memorized it, seeing it on the same 146 bus many times.

they used to have really crappy LSD express buses, with signs taped to the front window because the electronic signs were always broken or wrong. now i notice that us Northsiders have much spiffier buses. i'm happy about this. we also have a lot of the longer buses, which we didn't have before. maybe there are a lot more people living on the North side than before, so they need longer buses.

Pilots are qualified for specific types of airplanes MD-80 versus 737 etc but do not get the same aircraft each time. Routes are bid by senority. If a senior captain decides he needs the 4th and 5th of the month off and bids a different route, the effect could trickle down through all the pilots.