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(STN Podcast E173) Removing Barriers: Teenaged Colorado School Bus Driver Experience

School Transportation Nation podcast – Episode 173

Analysis on the Hawaii wildfires’ impact on school transportation, industry business updates, and conversations planned for the TSD conference in November.

It all started with a school project on student transportation for 20-year-old Tyson Decluette, who shares his experience training for and serving as the youngest bus driver in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8 in Colorado.

His Director of Transportation Robert Leach discusses the love of the yellow bus and removing barriers to CDL acquisition to remedy the driver shortage.

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