Frequently Asked Questions
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The hourly rates for Community and Transit Operator positions are as follows:
Community Shuttle
Wage schedule effective April 01, 2010:
$15.98 training rate
$17.00 (first 8 months after training)
$20.71 Thereafter
Conventional Bus
Wage schedule effective September 01, 2010:
$18.30 weeks 1 to 18
$20.13 weeks 19 to 52
$23.53 Year 2 (1st anniversary date)
$26.14 Thereafter (2nd anniversary date)
Yes, you must submit an application for consideration.
Depending on your personal circumstances, BC Transit may expedite or waive certain steps in the recruitment process. Regardless of your previous driving experience, all new employees must successfully complete all aspects of training and probation.
This is a document which you may request from ICBC.
A Drivers' Abstract is free of charge for the licence holder. It provides details about your licence status and driving history for the past five years.
For commercial license holders, please submit the Provincial (P) abstract as well as the National (N) abstracts.
If you are coming from another driving jurisdiction, you will be required to provide a drivers’ abstract to cover the last 5 years from the official licencing authority in the area where you lived.
For more information:
http://www.icbc.com/licensing/lic_utility_driving_recordPU.asp
This is a document from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and is only available to BC residents. A Claims Experience Summary is free of charge for the licence holder.
It provides details about the insurance claims as a driver or registered owner of a vehicle.
Applicants who currently live or previously lived in another driving jurisdiction within the past five years will be required to provide a letter from their insurance provider disclosing insurance claims made related to vehicle ownership or operation.
For more information:
http://www.icbc.com/help/contact.asp
No, BC Transit will provide in-house training and arrange for air brake endorsement testing during the initial operator training. You must however arrange to have the air brake restriction placed on your learners’ drivers’ license if you are a conventional or community operator applicant and you do not have your air brake endorsement.
This is available through ICBC at the time you obtain your Class 2 or 4 learners drivers licence. You must ask for this restriction to be placed onto the license so that you can be evaluated on our air brake equipped vehicles during the recruitment process.
As a Conventional Transit Operator you are guaranteed 37.5 hours per week with 5 days on and 2 consequtive days off. Additional overtime hours are available depending on seniority and are within the National Safety Code (NSC).
Community Transit Operator hours are not guaranteed and may fluctuate between 15 to 40 hours per week; however, as you gain more seniority your signup options increase; therefore increasing your hours to up to full time. Community Transit Operators need to be available up to 40 hours per week within a 5 day work week with 2 consequitive days off.
BC Transit does not require applicants to have commercial drivers license in order to apply. However, you will be asked to obtain your class 2 (Conventional Bus) or class 4 (Community Shuttle) learners license if you are not currently a holder of the class of licence required for the job.
If you are offered a position as a trainee, BC Transit is licensed to train and then arrange ICBC testing for both Conventional and Community Shuttle licencing. The air brake training course is also provided by BC Transit and we will also arrange for testing for your #15 air brake endorsement.
For more information: http://www.icbc.com/licensing/lic_getlic_comm_index.asp
Your driving record over the past ten years will be reviewed as part of the application process. You must demonstrate a safe driving history as assessed by BC Transit in order to qualify for any position that involves the operation of a Company vehicle.
Even if you are able to meet the minimum requirements, an excessive number of violations, prohibitions, suspensions and/or accidents in the past may exclude you from consideration.
Any 24 hour prohibition for alcohol or drugs, any recent criminal driving convictions or charges, any administrative prohibitions may eliminate you from consideration.
We let all applicants know that the Criminal Record and Vulnerable Sector search includes but is not limited to the following areas: Offences related to drugs or alcohol; Offences related to physical and or sexual abuse; Offences related to violence or the threat of violence, including physical assault; Offences related to theft or fraud; or any other offences not mentioned above.
The fact you have a criminal record will not in itself preclude you from consideration however criminal records related to the Transit Operator position may result in loss of an employment opportunity. Those with criminal records may want to consider obtaining pardons for those offences.
Applicants will not be re-considered for employment for a period of one year. Applications submitted after the waiting period will be reviewed with special consideration on work experience, education or other upgrading since the last application.