With more than 1,000 vacancies for school bus drivers statewide, the Connecticut School Transportation Association is holding a weeklong bus driver recruitment that
Itâs forcing many companies to double-up bus runs, and in some cases, delay getting students home.
School bus driver Shawn Bruzik loves his job. Heâs been picking up and dropping off students for more than 26 years.
âEvery day is a different adventure. I enjoy the kids, especially the elementary school kids,â Bruzik said.
Heâs not the only one who feels this way, as he and other school bus drivers share this passion in the hopes of recruiting new drivers to ease a statewide shortage of drivers.
âThereâs probably 6,500 school buses in the state, where probably across the state, 20 to 30 percent are short right now,â said Donald DeVivo, president of DATTCO Bus.
School bus companies across Connecticut say they are facing a driver shortage. According to several companies, the problem has never been worse and it is.