Beyond transitExecutive transport · production support
Professional services
Know the road. Understand the work.
Available to discuss training, transportation operations, and contract assignments shaped around the needs of your team.
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Training & safety
Driver instruction, training-material development, and program review informed by hands-on experience teaching transit operators on San Francisco streets.
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Transportation operations
A practical perspective spanning passenger service, dispatch, supervision, and Transit Management Center operations. Support for teams looking to improve preparation and communication.
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Driving & production
Experience in executive and event transportation, motorcade assignments, film-production driving, and production-assistant support. Engagements discussed individually.
Watch the work
Training, in action.
New Transit Operator Training · From my instructional video archive.
A look at the practical work behind operator development. Watch on YouTube ↗
Selected contributions at SFMTA / Muni
Better tools. Better-prepared instructors.
Lasting contributions often begin with a practical question: what do people need to do their work well?
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Modernizing the trolley manual
Updated a decades-old training manual as new trolley coaches arrived. The revision addressed modern pole-handling systems, battery-powered off-wire operation, regenerative braking, and operator safety.
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The Instructor’s Briefcase
Created the training department’s first instructor portal: transportation-agency resources, operating guidelines, forms, payroll and leave information, and accident-reporting instructions in one place—alongside photos, commendations, and driver rodeo events.
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A community of instructors
Founded and administered a Facebook community for driving instructors to exchange questions, resources, and experience. A place for professional learning to continue beyond the classroom.
A philosophy carried beyond the wheel
Five keys. A roadmap for living.
First introduced to the Smith System before Muni, I carried its driving principles into my teaching—and adapted them into a personal framework for everyday decisions.
Aim high in steering
Look ahead. Set meaningful goals and draw on experience to anticipate what may come. Give yourself time to choose a direction.
Get the big picture
Step back from the immediate situation. Consider how a decision fits into your wider life and affects the people around you.
Keep your eyes moving
Stay attentive to change. Remain open to opportunities, new experiences, and perspectives beyond your own.
Leave yourself an out
Preserve options. Prepare alternatives and keep enough flexibility to change course when circumstances change.
Make sure they see you
Communicate clearly. Speak up for your beliefs and let people know who you are, what you need, and what you stand for.
A personal life application inspired by the Smith System’s Five Keys.
In the field
Different assignments. The same attention to detail.
From the view through a coach windshield to executive transportation, the work begins with preparation and care.
Transit operations · A working view of the cityExecutive transportation · Prepared for the journey
Photographs show prior experience. Vehicles pictured are not offered as a rental fleet.
Professional background
A career built around people.
“What might an instructor need, and how can I make it easier to find?”
I’m Channin, a retired SFMTA/Muni transit professional whose career included operating, instruction, supervision, dispatch, and systemwide operations control.
As a TWU Local 200 Training Department shop steward, I advocated for fair assignments, advancement opportunities, safety equipment, and access to the resources colleagues needed.
Executive transportation, event assignments, and film-production support added new settings for the same habits: preparation, clear communication, sound judgment, and respect for people.
Today, The Road & Its Stories brings that experience together for professional training, transportation, and production opportunities.
Professional inquiries
Let’s put experience to work.
Tell me about your team, assignment, or training needs. Include the location, timing, and type of support you have in mind.
Prepared. Attentive. People first.
