Fresh Perspectives: Driver Shortage, COVID-19 Pandemic, Propane Buses

School Transportation Nation

English - January 19, 2022 00:48 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MB
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Conversations continue on how wages and the CDL process affect the driver shortage. Districts are struggling with a new wave of school closures and reduced bus ridership because of COVID-19, but is this an endemic rather than a pandemic?

Tony and Steve Whaley, Director of Autogas Business Development for the Propane Education & Research Council, discuss propane school buses, infrastructure, implementation plans and available funding.