This weekend, Coronet Peak will host what is believed to be one of the first skifield bus driver information days in New Zealand.
The initiative is being run by the Otago-Southland Heavy Motor Vehicle Safety Intervention Group, which includes the New Zealand Transport Agency, ACC, police, the Department of Labour and the Bus and Coach Association.
Group spokesman Andrew Savage said he hoped to equip bus drivers to handle the demands of driving on skifield access roads.
Bus drivers from outside the Queenstown area were not always familiar with skifield roads.
Driving a bus on them was demanding with "little or no margin for error", Mr Savage said.
More than 80 drivers, including several non-locals would attend.
"It aims to give skifield bus drivers the knowledge and know-how to keep themselves and their passengers safe, as well as the motorists they share skifield access roads with," he said.
Topics to be covered ranged from bus dynamics to maintaining a vehicle when used in alpine conditions.
