2016 STN Leadersip Award But like most districts, one of the thornier issue remains driver


retention and hiring. Over the years, Evans has kept her CDL with school bus certificate. While she has little time anymore to get behind the wheel, she remembers well the job and all the responsibilities—and frustrations—that go along with them. Last year, she implemented a driver task force to support new


and existing drivers and “to slow down the revolving door of drivers,” she said. Te district was trying to determine why many new driver


applicants were leaving the position after only one week of being driving routes, despite surviving the previous 13 days of training, studying for and passing the written and behind-the-wheel CDL tests and backgrounders. Why was it


that these new drivers seemed unprepared for the job despite all the tools they had received? “For a first-year driver, if you don’t have mentors with this generation of students sometimes good structure is not well received,” she said. “After seven hours on, they are tired and frazzled. And I was tired of seeing drivers crying and walking out the door.” So a task force was created, first with three members and now


10. It consists of drivers themselves, plus supervisors and driver training instructors, to provide support for any issues or concerns heard from the ranks. Te senior member has 50 years of experi- ence with the district. Boosted by a new department newsletter and suggestion boxes


Clark County’s Five-Year Technology Plan


“My five-year plan is to have a video surveillance system on every bus, be able to tap into that video surveillance systems from my routing software so that I can compare planned routing with actual routing,” Evans said. “Currently, our software allows us to program our network based on speed by time of day. We can reflect heavy traffic patterns and heavy traffic times in our route network.”


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We would like to Congratulate Shannon on the 2016 STN Leadership Award. We are excited that she has received this award for her hard work and leadership at Clark County School District!


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