After the required 20 hours of state mandated certification classes, a driver is placed on a route. When the new driver is placed on a route, a mentor accompanies him or her. The bus drivers gather all information for state reporting purposes and route scheduling. The new routing software will eventually be online to provide the information necessary for reporting and for route preparation during the upcoming school year. More than 7,000 extracurricular trips accounted for more than 300,000 miles for the 1998-99 school year.
Coaches are responsible for driving on trips related to their sports.
Bus drivers and monitors are charged 75 cents per hour to receive employee benefits. These employees are allotted five days of sick leave per year. The state does not reimburse school districts for transporting students who live within two miles of the school, unless the route to school has been determined to be hazardous.