Pole Vault Pole Transport

How does your school transport pole vault poles to and from Meets?

  • School Bus - Under the seats tucked to the right or left

    Votes: 7 87.5%

  • School Van - Some sort of rigging on the van

    Votes: 1 12.5%

  • Parent volunteer takes them in a truck or van

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    8
  • Poll closed .
 
Well, a long time ago, in a previous lifetime, my HS team transported poles in a bus, just like choice #1, sliding them in the rear door & biasing under the seat one way or the other.
 
We do all methods depending on the event. 95% on the bus. We have had meets where the vault starts early, so we take them ahead with a car or truck. Towel shut in the top of the door/doors is my preferred method with car.

Had an incident a few years ago where a bus driver refused to let us put them on the bus. Thank goodness we had more than one bus and a more reasonable driver.
 
psycho_dad said:
We do all methods depending on the event. 95% on the bus. We have had meets where the vault starts early, so we take them ahead with a car or truck. Towel shut in the top of the door/doors is my preferred method with car.

Had an incident a few years ago where a bus driver refused to let us put them on the bus. Thank goodness we had more than one bus and a more reasonable drive
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Thanks for your feedback. Out Transportation Dept. is giving us grief about putting them on the bus...just wondered if other school districts ever run into this issue. I understand not wanting them in the bus aisle but seems like they could be tucked pretty safely under the seats to the side.
 
Over my 16+ years, we've been able to load under the bus seats for the most part. There have been years/admins when our transportation folks objected... or when a new bus design would show up without enough clearance for our protective tube. (we never put poles loose/uncovered in the bus bus for fear of nicks... a scary thing for a PV dad). In cases where we could not load on the bus, we transported poles on my pick-up truck, in a tube bungeed to the mirror up front and a "hook" mounted in one of the post holes in the back.

We've not transported in/on a school van... concerned it would block egress for the kids in an emergency situation. ... and we've had a pretty consistent run of poles too long to load inside even full size vans.
 
BDevils90 said:
Thanks for your feedback. Out Transportation Dept. is giving us grief about putting them on the bus...just wondered if other school districts ever run into this issue. I understand not wanting them in the bus aisle but seems like they could be tucked pretty safely under the seats to the side.
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In the period when our transportation folks objected, the concern was kids tripping over the poles as they tried to leave their seats in an emergency situation. Seemed like a stretch, but to address this concern, we offered to bungee the poles on top of the seats against the windows... they liked this idea even less. We encouraged them to ask how other districts handled the situation... after some time, they eventually got more comfortable with tubes on the bus as long as they were not in the aisle complicating access to the emergency door. In the meantime, we racked up a lot of miles on the truck, but at least I didn't have to fold my knees up under my chin on the bus.
 
BDevils90 said:
Thanks for your feedback. Out Transportation Dept. is giving us grief about putting them on the bus...just wondered if other school districts ever run into this issue. I understand not wanting them in the bus aisle but seems like they could be tucked pretty safely under the seats to the side.
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That was our issue. The one bus driver flat out refused to put them on the bus even in a carrying case and under the seats. You can't block access to the rear door. I would also imagine they could require that you strap them to the seat legs so they can't move around.
 
galesxc said:
Over my 16+ years, we've been able to load under the bus seats for the most part. There have been years/admins when our transportation folks objected... or when a new bus design would show up without enough clearance for our protective tube. (we never put poles loose/uncovered in the bus bus for fear of nicks... a scary thing for a PV dad). In cases where we could not load on the bus, we transported poles on my pick-up truck, in a tube bungeed to the mirror up front and a "hook" mounted in one of the post holes in the back.

We've not transported in/on a school van... concerned it would block egress for the kids in an emergency situation. ... and we've had a pretty consistent run of poles too long to load inside even full size vans.
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Yes, agree totally with transporting in protective tubes.
 
In most cases, we would transport them under the seats on the bus. For meets at 1 nearby location (1 mile down the road from our HS) where we would not take a bus, I transported the poles hanging out of the back of my Prius w/ the hatch tied shut. Like many other schools, we transported our poles inside of tubes made of PVC pipe.
 
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