WRITTEN BY DAVID GEORGE | DAVID@STNONLINE.COM


SPECIAL REPORT T


he rate of school bus driver pay is not the only factor in retaining and recruiting drivers, as discussed in the October magazine edition of School


Transportation News. Te more we researched this issue, the more it became apparent that quite often, the number of hours offered to drivers and how to accurately track them is more important than the hourly rate, alone. Tis month, pay scale fans, we wanted to focus on one of those related factors—the number of possible work hours for drivers. Some comments we expected, and some we did not.


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AND THE SURVEY SAYS … A key question asked in an STN survey administered in August was what factors are hampering current driver retention efforts. Sixty-seven percent said that not enough hours was the ultimate factor, with the next most commonly cited reason, no health insurance or benefits, receiving just over 41 percent of the vote. Unfortunately, as Paul Novak observed


in a provocative blog he wrote in 2016, the industry is unlikely to ever solve the problem of school bus driver shortages and providing enough working hours. Novak spent 21 years


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