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Bus Services for Students

What to Know About Bus Routes

We assign bus routes with a software program which calculates the nearest practical routes.
Bus stops are designated by the Transportation Department and are placed at specific locations based on the distance to the next stop and safety of the location.
Bus drivers may not change the location of a bus stop. Any changes to the location of a bus stop or requests for a bus stop to be added must be made by the Transportation Department director. Any requests for changes must be made using this Transportation Request Form.
Bus service for students with special needs is provided according to a child's individual education plan. No out-of-zone transportation requests for School Choice Privilege applications are granted for any reason.

Bulloch County Schools is considered a leader in the state's Pupil Transportation Services for its school bus safety training for students and drivers. All students, whether they ride a bus daily or not, receive school bus safety training every year during the first few weeks of school.

This is critical because in the last few years, Georgia has led the nation in bus fatalities, and 92 percent of these occurred while loading or unloading a school bus.

Our drivers begin each new school year with student safety training. A tradition started more than 40 years ago by a former transportation director, Cathy Dixon. Our annual Sparky School Bus Safety Training Program ensures that all students know how to do the following:

properly get on and off a school bus;
evacuate the bus in the event of a fire or accident
sit and use quiet voices on the bus,
be aware of danger zones around a bus;
obey bus stop rules; and
evacuate a bus safely

Bus Safety Expectations for Students

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Jobs in Transportation

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Bulloch County Schools' Transportation Department employees nearly 150 bus drivers, bus monitors, bus mechanics, clerical support staff, and administrators to safely manage pupil transportation services for our students. We regularly provide free bus driver training to prepare our new and existing staff. If you are interested in joining our driving force, visit our transportation jobs web page.

Bus Driver Qualifications

Our expectation is that our drivers be roving ambassadors and consider their school bus to be an extension of our classrooms. School bus drivers are the first and last face that many students see each day, so our bus drivers, bus monitors, bus mechanics, and all of our Transportation Department employees support our children and schools by providing the most safe, nurturing, and engaging learning environment possible.

Before applying for a school bus driver job, please review our required bus driver qualifications and our required bus training information.

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Commercial License Pre-Test Study Course

School bus drivers are required to have a commercial driver's license with a passenger endorsement. Applicants for our bus driver jobs are not required to have a commercial driver's license when they apply or bus driver experience. The school district trains applicants. Part of that training is helping applicants prepare to take the Georgia Department of Driver Services' Commercial Driver's License Test. You may watch our pre-test study video here.

About Our Driving Force

Bulloch County Schools' Transportation Department helps ensure more than 5,500 children are transported to and from school safely each weekday from August to May. Our driving force travels more than 1.3 million miles annually to more than 100 bus stops and more than 1500 field trips and athletic events. These roving ambassadors are the first and last face that many of our students see each day, and our school buses are an extension of our classrooms. For this reason our bus drivers, bus monitors, bus mechanics, and all of our Transportation Department support staff play a key role in ensuring that we provide the safest learning environment possible.

Our Driving Force

Our Fleet

With a fleet of 163 buses, the school district’s drivers, mechanics, monitors and other support personnel ensure that twice each day more than 5,200 students, more than half of the total student enrollment, are delivered safely to and from school. Drivers travel more than 6,200 miles daily across more than 113 different routes. Drivers also travel an additional 52,000 miles annually for more than 1,300 field trips and athletic events, bringing the total annual miles traveled to more than 1.5 million miles.

Buses Are Road Ready

Safety Training for Drivers

All drivers receive rigorous, specialized training on a variety of topics before they take the wheel behind a big yellow bus. First and second-year drivers go through mandatory training on student management, student privacy, first aid, railroad crossings, bus loading/unloading, fire extinguisher use, backdoor locking/unlocking, bus mechanics, preparing a bus for inspection, driving range, and preparing a bus for end-of-year return.

All Bulloch’s drivers are required to test their driving skills on a standard bus range to keep skills sharp and help handle real-world, driving situations. They also must attend a three-hour state safety training session annually.

Key Contacts

Bulloch County Schools Transportation Department

Transportation, Maintenance & Technology Annex
219 Simons Road
Statesboro, Georgia

Transportation Help Desk

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