Contract Bus Service
Your Student Transportation Needs
You're trying to balance limited resources with increasing demands for delivering safe, high quality, efficient pupil transportation services. Budgets are tight and of course, your district is focused on delivering the highest quality education to students. Outsourcing student transportation can help you hold down costs while maintaining high levels of safety and control. Join schools and districts throughout America enjoying the benefits of outsourcing pupil transportation by contracting with First Student.
First Student Full, Turnkey Contracted Transportation Solutions
When you trust your transportation needs to the experts at First Student, you can focus more attention and resources in the classroom. As North America’s leading operator of yellow school buses, we provide a full range of proven, budget-smart services all delivered by safety focused transportation professionals.
First Student Transportation Services
Eliminate virtually all of your transportation headaches with our comprehensive services. We take care of every element of school transportation, including providing buses, planning route schedules, passenger management, personnel issues, staffing the terminal and managing waste. You'll be leveraging our purchasing power and expertise to deliver the best pupil transportation service to your community. Learn more about our range of turnkey contract transportation services, including:
School Buses & Vehicles
First Student will specify all school purpose transportation vehicles to meet or exceed Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, State Specification Standards, and School District requirements. In addition, we have developed partnerships with select bus body and chassis manufacturers to assure maximum cost-effectiveness.
Bus and Parts Procurement
We offer national fleet pricing on vehicles and parts and can usually obtain discounts below fleet price due to our volume and long-term partnerships – something school districts or other bus companies can’t. We can also quickly check availability and stock bus parts. We can often order parts online with vendors we work with nationally, saving time and money.
Transportation Facilities Management
First Student's professional local team will operate from a transportation facility that is located near your school district. This includes securing the facility, if necessary, along with all real estate payments and facility management requirements.
Fuel, Fuel Storage & Purchasing
First Student can be responsible for direct payment to fuel suppliers, including taxes. We will also supply fuel storage facilities and pay for the cost of maintaining them. First Student offers practiced strategies to economize fuel usage and purchase fuel at the best possible prices utilizing our purchasing leverage.
Preventive Maintenance
First Student's own trained and certified technicians perform preventive bus maintenance that includes drivers' daily pre-trip inspections and regularly scheduled preventive maintenance inspections at defined intervals. We use extensive bus maintenance tools, systems and procedures covering every aspect of maintenance to maintain high mechanical standards.
Repair Order System
First Student utilizes an advanced fleet maintenance IT system to capture repair orders. Information is directly entered as a paperless repair order or keyed in from physical copies to capture and track individual vehicle maintenance performance histories.
Fleet & Passenger Reporting
We prepare and furnish written reports to the School District, including pupil transport data, trip reports, fuel consumption, ride time, mileage reports, personnel reports, pupil misconduct reports and more.
Route Optimization
First Student will work with you to obtain all necessary data, including projections for enrollment, school additions, boundary changes and transportation policies. Learn more about First Student’s Planning Solutions.
Staff Recruiting
First Student’s comprehensive recruiting process is critical to maintaining a steady flow of qualified applicants to fill open positions at all times. We support our local operations with national recruiting resources to ensure we meet the needs of our customers.
Waste Management & Environmental Preservation
School Bus transportation systems require close monitoring and management of the waste stream and maintaining environmental compliance. There are at least 14 waste streams associated with vehicle maintenance. These hazards include fuel, used oil, batteries, coolant, tires, parts, wash water, paint and solvents. First Student cares about the environment and will minimize the amount of waste generated at your facility and control where it is disposed of according to the highest standards. We accomplish this by recycling whenever possible and by carefully managing waste streams throughout a products lifecycle – from inception to disposal.
Our team will deliver this full range of turnkey, contract transportation services – learn more about First Student Employees.
For more information, contact sales and marketing at firststudentinfo@firstgroup.com.