State troopers say driver behavior around school buses is so bad in some areas they're considering a plan to put troopers on buses.

The trooper on board would serve as a spotter and radio to units in the area, who would then stop violators.

Bus drivers say most people would be surprised at the things drivers do around school busses. St. Tammany bus driver Sheri Lang says, "The biggest thing is the running stop signs.  They don't want to be behind us, they want to pull out in front of us.”

When she stops to let kids off, Lang says, cars coming in the other direction frequently don't stop, "It's really dangerous with the little kids, because once you open the door, they ready to run."

State Police in Troop L on the Northshore say, they got so many complaints at the start of the school year, especially around Mandeville, they started looking into the idea of putting a trooper on school busses.

"This is something that can be done very quickly.  If we have a specific location that we want to target, or if we want to do a random spot check.  We can put that trooper on a bus, get a couple units to strategically locate throughout that area of that route, and we can work it from there very quickly," says Trooper Louis Calato.

Calato says Troop G near Shreveport has done it for five years now, and "It's been a great success up there."

For now, it's just an idea on the Northshore.  St. Tammany School spokesperson Meredith Mendez says, the school system would consider any idea that would make busses safer for kids.

Sheri Lang likes the idea. "I don't have a problem with it. I'd be glad to be the guinea pig."

After the complaints earlier this year, Calato says, trooper and St. Tammany deputies flooded the trouble spots, and were able to cut down on the number of complaints.  But he says if the problem gets bad again, they could go to the trooper on board plan.