TRIP AND TRANSPORTATION PROCEDURES
1. All band members must travel together in the buses provided to all away games and competitions.
2. All band members must return to L.H.S. by the buses provided. On special occasions, you may need to ride home with your parents, other adult family members, or with another student’s parents. Under these circumstances, a special Alternative Transportation Permission Form must be filled out and signed by your parent prior to departure. If approval is given, you will be excused when all the following obligations are completed: (1) we have returned to the bus as a group, (2) you have told a director who is taking care of your instrument, and (3) the appropriate party is present.
3. All students must remain on the buses until instructions have been given by a director, and permission is given to unload.
4. After arriving home, before unloading the bus, all papers and waste must be put in the trash bag provided and all windows must be closed.

BUS RULES
1. Be courteous
2. Keep the bus clean
3. Cooperate with the driver
4. No smoking or alcoholic beverages
5. Do not be destructive
6. Stay in your seat and do not stand.
7. Keep head, hands, and feet inside the bus.
8. The bus driver, chaperones, or directors may assign seats.
9. The use of the back door is for emergency use only.
10. No throwing of objects in or out of the bus.
11. Ride the same bus on return trip
12. Students will receive an itinerary of activities for all major trips. Students are responsible for knowing departure times and must be ready on time.
13. Chaperones are to be obeyed and respected.
14. Any illness or injury should be reported to the director immediately, no matter how unimportant it may seem.
15. Upon arrival at a destination, students should remain seated until instructed to leave by the director.
16. Students are expected to keep the bus clean.
17. Conduct of students in public eating places or motels should be subdued and courteous.
18. If traveling out of uniform, uniforms must be in a garment bag and hung on the window.
19. No yelling, dirty songs, or vulgarity
20. Only the small type radios and stereos with headphones are allowed. The headphones are always to be used.

INSTRUMENT BUS PROCEDURES
1. Students are responsible for their own equipment and instruments.
2. The loading and unloading of the instrument bus will be supervised by the instrument bus driver.
3. All band personnel must enter through the front door, pick up your instrument case and exit out the rear door. Assemble your instrument outside, re-enter the front door, place your case back on the bus, and again exit through the rear door. The order of procedure:
a. Tuba cases, flags, and percussion out of the bus
b. All other cases out of the bus.
c. Cases returned to bus
d. Tuba cases in last
4. Tuba players returning home from any function must again assemble their tubas and place them in the racks provided in the tuba room. The cases must then be properly stored.
5. All band members are responsible for getting their instrument off the bus and stored in its proper place in the band room.