Surviving the Workday

Despite obstacles, muni driver rolls ahead describes a day in the life of buss driver Rochelle Fuller:

When Fuller, a 44-year-old San Francisco native, arrived to work, she didn’t know to which line she’d be assigned. She works the “extra board,” similar to a pool of substitute teachers who fill in at schools where and when needed.

She was given bus No. 8176 because it was next in line to leave the yard. Added to the fleet in 2002, the bus already is halfway through its expected life span, having logged more than 236,000 miles on its odometer.

“It’s really just the luck of the draw when it comes to which one you get,” said Fuller, a Muni driver for almost a decade who knew many of the passengers she picked up in Bayview-Hunters Point, the neighborhood where she was raised. More than once, their conversations turned to news of mutual friends and old classmates who had been killed.

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