Drivers' Shortage - USA - More students must walk to school
Fairfax County,VA,USA -Virginia Connection Newspapers, by Brian McNeill -Sept 14, 2006: -- Their starting salaries have been raised by 26 percent from $12.90 in 2004 to $16.25 per hour in 2006. They are eligible for medical, dental and life insurance, as well as paid school holidays and retirement benefits. And to cap it all off, they get a $500 signing bonus... Yet despite the increasingly sweet employment package, the Fairfax County school system cannot seem to recruit or retain its bus drivers... The school system operates the nation's second largest public bus fleet, with 1,570 buses that carry 110,000 students back and forth from school each day. But as students returned to class on Sept. 5, the county was roughly 120 drivers short... The ongoing bus driver shortage has put acute pressure on the school system to find efficiencies within its transportation schedule. Partly as a result, both bus routes and bus stops have been reduced across Fairfax County...
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