{"id":66468,"date":"2025-11-26T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:59:11","slug":"95-year-old-texas-man-is-worlds-oldest-bus-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66468\/","title":{"rendered":"95-year-old Texas man is world&#8217;s oldest bus driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3515CF40AD3987C73214F12E36BABF2D.jpg\" alt=\"Tips for one of the busiest travel days of the year\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">WICHITA FALLS, Texas &#8211; A 95-year-old Texas man who has been driving buses for more than three decades has been recognized as the world\u2019s oldest bus driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to a video posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cityofwichitafalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">city government\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> Wednesday, Raymond Hager began driving buses 35 years ago after he ran out of things to do at age 60. A trip with his wife, who Hager said knew him better than he knows himself, quickly changed that.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We were in Wichita (Falls) one day,&#8221; Hager recalled. &#8220;Down on Kemp Street, there\u2019s a bus stop, and the light was red, and we pulled up right beside the bus. She said, \u2018That&#8217;s what you need to do is drive a bus. You like to drive and meet with people.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Hager has been doing it ever since. He said he had planned on retiring at 95, but his boss had other plans.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;She said, \u2018Wait a minute. Who said anything about you retiring?\u2019&#8221; Hager said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He was allowed to stay on as long as he was able to drive at least once a week.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bus-driver.png\" alt=\"Raymond Hager, 95, drives a bus in Wichita Falls, Texas, in November 2025. He was recognized as the world's oldest active male bus driver by the Guinness Book of World Records.\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Raymond Hager, 95, drives a bus in Wichita Falls, Texas, in November 2025. He was recognized as the world&#8217;s oldest active male bus driver by the Guinness Book of World Records.  (City of Wichita Falls, Texas Government\/Facebook \/ FOX Local)<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;One day a week is just not enough,&#8221; Hager said. &#8220;So, here I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This week, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized Hager as the world\u2019s oldest active male bus driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Short even proclaimed Nov. 18, Hager\u2019s birthday, as Raymond Hager Day.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/transportation\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/people\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WICHITA FALLS, Texas &#8211; A 95-year-old Texas man who has been driving buses for more than three decades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[223,391,27,29,28,840,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-66468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-people","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-transportation","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}