In this roundtable discussion, association leaders and manufacturers speculate on the pandemic’s long-term effects on training, driver responsibilities, health, shortage, and the bus itself.
Four Muscogee County School District drivers are praised by the Harris County School District’s board of education for helping transport students during a driver shortage.
The president of the New Hampshire School Transportation Association talks about leading via Zoom, concerns about drivers feeling comfortable getting behind the wheel again, and his pride in an association in which competing businesses team up for safe student transportation.
Mike Martucci, who is running for the state Senate, says state funds for political campaigns should be used to help schools pay for COVID-19-related health and safety protocols and address driver shortage.
School Bus Fleet’s recent webinar, “Returning to Service Post-COVID: Are You Prepared?” is now available online.
The National School Transportation Association urges governors and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to require support for school transportation through the end of the school closures.
Salem-Keizer Public Schools boosts wages for drivers from $15.82 per hour to $17.47 per hour. Overall, increases range from an extra $1.65 per hour to $3.89 more per hour, depending on the position.
Fisher discusses her love of an unpredictable workday, legislation to combat driver shortage, and taking the helm at the Virginia Association for Pupil Transportation.
House Bill 351 would require the state superintendent of public instruction to identify school systems with critical shortages and allow them to hire school retirees to drive while keeping their retiree pay.
Feature articles that drew the most traffic on the School Bus Fleet website in 2019 included strategies for training and staff management, safe practices for loading and unloading the school bus, and tips for driver recruitment.