Calloway County Schools Streamlines Bus Driver Training Compliance

The Customer

Calloway County Schools in Kentucky

The Challenge

Comply with new driver training regulations and re-imagine training
Calloway County Schools in Kentucky was grappling with a shortage of school bus drivers and was seeking a new approach to bus driver training. Getting drivers to attend NTI (non traditional instruction) days during the school day was challenging because many had other secondary jobs. The district also needed help getting its newly hired drivers into compliance with new federal requirements.

The Choice

The district selected Vector Solutions’ School Bus Safety Training Courses in order to:

• Provide flexibility for drivers to train when their schedules allowed.
• Help new drivers meet the U.S. Department of Transportation’s/ELDT and Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) Pupil Transportation training requirements.

The Change

New convenient ways to deliver mandatory training by:

1. Assigning drivers online training to complete at home for NTI work, to meet mandates, and to help prepare them for the CDL permit.
2. Using a centralized and streamlined system
   to track and manage training.
3. Introducing a new training process
   to reduce barriers to onboarding
   new drivers.
4. Providing computers in the district’s
   transportation office for drivers to use.