Job Description
Summary Transport students or special clients to and from activities, schools, or approved locations. Ensure adherence to safety rules and assist passengers in boarding or exiting.
Duties - Follow safety rules as students board and exit buses or cross streets near bus stops.
- Comply with traffic regulations to operate vehicles in a safe and courteous manner.
- Check the condition of a vehicle's tires, brakes, windshield wipers, lights, oil, fuel, water, and safety equipment to ensure that everything is in working order.
- Maintain order among pupils during trips to ensure safety.
- Pick up and drop off students at regularly scheduled neighborhood locations, following strict time schedules.
- Report any bus malfunctions or needed repairs.
- Drive gasoline, diesel, or electrically powered multi-passenger vehicles to transport students between neighborhoods, schools, and school activities.
- Prepare and submit reports that may include the number of passengers or trips, hours worked, mileage, fuel consumption, or fares received.
- Maintain knowledge of first-aid procedures.
- Keep bus interiors clean for passengers.
- Read maps and follow written and verbal geographic directions.
- Report delays, accidents, or other traffic and transportation situations, using telephones or mobile two-way radios.
- Regulate heating, lighting, and ventilation systems for passenger comfort.
- Escort small children across roads and highways.
- Make minor repairs to vehicles.
Requirements - Follow safety procedures for vehicle operation.
- Inspect motor vehicles.
- Drive passenger vehicles.
- Report vehicle or equipment malfunctions.
- Drive passenger vehicles.
- Record operational details of travel.
- Maintain professional knowledge or certifications.
- Clean vehicles or vehicle components.
- Read maps to determine routes.
- Receive information or instructions for performing work assignments.
- Notify others of emergencies, problems, or hazards.
- Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety.
- Maintain vehicles in good working condition.
Nice To Haves - AOL MapQuest
- Barcode scanners
- Bus warning lights
- Cell phones
- Digital surveillance camera systems
- Emergency exit doors
- Emergency first-aid kits
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Microsoft MapPoint
- Microsoft Windows
- On-board data input terminals
- Passenger buses
- Portable fire extinguishers
- Powered service doors
- Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Snow chains
- Tire pressure gauges
- Two way radios
- Web browser software
- Wheelchair lifts
- Wheelchair restraint systems
Job Tags
Full time,