School bus contractor

A 1988 Navistar International school bus with a Wayne Lifeguard 71-passenger body which was owned by school bus contractor (and former Wayne Corporation bus dealer) Virginia Overland Transportation in Richmond, Virginia in 1999

A school bus contractor is a private company or proprietorship that provides student transport services to a school district or non-public school. Of the 450,000 school buses operating in the United States, it is estimated that approximately 39% are operated by school bus contractors. In Canada (with some still operated by the school boards) and the United Kingdom, almost all school transportation is performed by contractors.

A school bus contractor may range in size from an individual driver with a single bus, to a small company serving a single school or district, to a large multi-national company with as many as 60,000 buses.

Major school bus contractors currently operating in the United States and Canada include Atlantic Express, First Student, National Express, and Student Transportation Inc.

See also

• School bus (vehicle)
• Student transport (logistics)
• School bus yellow
• Frank W. Cyr, Father of the Yellow School Bus