Technology Helping Melissa ISD Retain School Bus Drivers During Nationwide Shortage

About half of the school district’s students rely its transportation services and district leaders believe they have found a way to retain drivers while attracting new ones.

[MrFlyboy]

I’m happy to say more school districts nationwide are finally adopting the computer system to help new drivers get their jobs done easier and less stressful. New software can show everything a substitute driver needs from turn for turn directions to every stop and school, names and pictures of every student and authorized adults, knowing what child didn’t show up to the stop and automatically notifications to the school office to find them and call the parents. It really prevents problems trying to read paper printouts and keeping everything straight and updated.

[West_Coast]

They just now got GPS? Failures... Shortage because a lot of drivers retired during the pandemic, and most are not returning due to Covid, dealing with many passengers.