The Transportation Department is responsible for the safe and timely transportation of students attending Tri-Creek School Corporation.

 

Transportation is provided to and from school for students living beyond a one-mile walking distance from their school.  For more information about school bus routes and bus stops, please call the Transportation Department at 696-6661.

 

Currently, Tri-Creek School Corporation services 72 routes per day, transporting more than 3,000 students and traveling 1,863 miles a day.  These figures do not include extracurricular trips.

 

Tri-Creek School Corporation provides training in all areas of student transportation, including management, safety, routing, defensive driving, maintenance, assertive discipline, and driver training.

 

Before hiring a new bus driver, Tri-Creek School Corporation provides the following in addition to the state’s requirements:

 

Ø A minimum of 20 hours training, which

includes both classroom and behind-the-wheel training

Ø Pre-employment drug testing

Ø Criminal history record check

Ø Motor vehicle record check

 

Tri-Creek School Corporation participates in a random drug and alcohol pool for employees administered by a state-approved outside agency, where a percentage of bus drivers are chosen at random.  The chosen bus drivers are required to submit to a drug and/or alcohol test within one hour of notification.

 

Everybody has a job in school bus safety!

 

Across the country, about 22 million children ride to and from school each day in 350,000 buses.  Traveling on a school bus is the safest form of transportation, but it takes the combined efforts of students, parents, drivers, and other motorists to help keep it that way.

 

STUDENT’S JOB

Ø Leave home early enough to arrive at your bus stop on time.

Ø Wait for your bus in a safe place, well off the roadway.

Ø Enter your bus in an orderly manner, and take your seat.

Ø Follow the instructions of your bus driver.

Ø Remain in your seat while the bus is in motion.

Ø Keep aisles clear at all times.

Ø Remain quiet and orderly.

Ø Be courteous to your bus drive rand fellow passengers.

Ø Be alert to traffic when leaving the bus.

 

PARENT’S JOB

Ø To have children at the bus stop on time.

Ø To know the rules for bus drivers.

Ø To support the driver if behavior problems happen.

 

DRIVER’S JOB

Ø To be in good physical condition.

Ø To check the bus before and after each trip.

Ø To drive safely at all times.

Ø To obey all laws.

 

MOTORIST’S JOB

Ø To know the bus law and obey it.

Ø To report illegal school bus driving.