How Do We Qualify Drivers?

Hiring:

  • 1- Driver written and road test from D.M.V. for C.D.L. with passenger endorsement to drive school bus

  • 2- Application for employment

  • 3- Three reference letters

  • 4- Finger printing for criminal background check.

  • 5- Physical Exam

  • 6- Random drug and alcohol testing

  • 7- Must take 30-hour course before second year of driving.

Yearly requirements:

  • 1- Physical

  • 2- Drivers abstract from state D.M.V. of driving record.

  • 3- Two, two-hour driver refreshers, one in August and one in January

  • 4- Driver's review of employment

  • 5- Driver's defensive review. We have to observe the driver and from outside the bus and grade them.

Biannual Qualifications

  • 1- Behind the wheel test. We have to ride with driver and grade them.

  • 2- Oral/written test of 25 random questions from a list of 88

  • 3- Physical performance test

We have yearly audit by state D.M.V. to check all records