Schools, contractors, and students across the U.S. came together to celebrate and show their appreciation for the yellow bus and its drivers.
PHOTOS: Love the Bus 2018
David Black of Trussville City Schools (second from left) was named the 2018 Driver of the Year at the Transportation South event. Also pictured: Bucky Law (left) of Transportation South, Chad Carpenter of the Alabama State Department of Education, and Joe Lightsey of Transportation South.
Mike Stroman is a retired CEO. He enjoys the structure of being able to drive a route in the morning and afternoon.
National Express, the parent company of Durham School Services, Petermann Bus, and Trinity Transportation, celebrated Love the Bus with its teams across the Great Lakes region and the East Coast. Shown here are Trinity Transportation school bus drivers in Detroit, Michigan.
San Antonio (Texas) Independent School District gave bags of candy to its drivers to show appreciation. Students also created thank-you cards for the bus drivers and other transportation staff members.
In Alabama, school bus dealership Transportation South held a Love the Bus awards luncheon on Feb. 14, and honored 35 school bus drivers.
Transportation South treated the drivers, superintendents, supervisors, secretaries, and other transportation helpers to a barbecue lunch.
Third-grade students from Meadow View Elementary School in Alabaster, Alabama, also attended the event. They were treated to pizza and cake, and decorated a bus with stickers of their names.
Transportation South's Love the Bus-themed cake.
Greenville County (S.C.) Schools highlighted individual bus drivers during the state's School Bus Driver Appreciation Week. Shown here is driver Mike Goodwin. He is also a dairy farmer, and appreciates the benefits he earns on the job, which enable him to continue being a farmer.
Greenville County Schools also interviewed drivers to get their personal stories and why the job benefits them. Gloria Murrillo is a mother who enjoys the mid-day break to do household chores and shop for groceries.
Urbanno Keremius is a recent immigrant from Guam who wants to help his children pursue the American dream.
School bus drivers for Durham School Services in Thornton, New Hampshire, are pictured here.
Shown here are Durham school bus drivers in Oxford, Massachusetts.
A Petermann bus driver team in Groveport, Ohio, poses here.
Transportation department garage staff members at Rockingham County (N.C.) Schools also showed their love for the bus.
In North Carolina, HSM Transportation Solutions sponsored a Love the Bus event at Siler City Elementary School on Feb. 16. Shown here are the drivers with Joel Caviness, the transportation director for Chatham County Schools, and David Murphy, market manager for HSM (back row, left to right).