The school bus driver shortage remains a serious concern even as we start to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us.
Read More →Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent news headlines from the pupil transportation industry - including U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona's visit with school bus workers in Maine.
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Sidelined two years by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National School Transportation Association's Capitol Hill Bus-In event returned to Washington, D.C., April 5-8.
Read More →No matter what powers the vehicles, the people who make them, drive them, ride them remain unified in the common bond celebrated in February: They love the bus.
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The agency is giving new school bus driver applicants until June 30 to seek their intrastate CDL without requiring engine component knowledge.
Read More →Love the Bus Month might have been more spread out this year, but the sentiment remains as students learn about the importance of the familiar school buses and the people who drive and maintain them.
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Aggregated data in the poll shows that 54% of survey respondents are 10% short of their driver staffing levels. Curt Macysyn, executive director of NSTA, calls that "a staggering number."
Read More →The National School Transportation Association urges school bus operators to take advantage of the FMCSA's temporary waiver of the "under-the-hood" component of the CDL test.
Read More →The association's advocacy team continues to work with legislators and federal officials to cope with the ongoing driver shortage and fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More →The industry will have to go through a period of adjustment and become innovative in ways we have not previously utilized. For example, we have seen an increase in wages and benefits, but wages and benefits only provide a partial solution to this comprehensive problem.
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