National Passenger Services, d/b/a Stock Transportation, is a Canadian
school bus operator based in
Markham, Ontario
Markham () is a city in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Downtown Toronto. In the 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest ...
. The company provides student transportation and charter services for twenty-eight school districts in
Ontario
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,
Nova Scotia
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Most of the population are native Eng ...
and
Alberta
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.
Stock Transportation was founded in 1958 by Jeff and Jerry Stock. In July 2002 Stock Transportation was acquired by National Express.
[History]
/ref> That year a number of acquisitions were made such as the purchase of Deluxe Coach Lines and Alouette Bus Lines of North Bay.
The Customer Service Center in North Bay services approximately 100 home to school bus routes.
Customers
* Nipissing Parry Sound Student Transportation Services
* Toronto District School Board
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB), formerly known as English-language Public District School Board No. 12 prior to 1999, is the English-language public-secular school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The minority public-secular franc ...
* Toronto Catholic District School Board
The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB, known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 40 prior to 1999) is an English-language public-separate school board for Toronto, Ontario, Canada, headquartered in North York. I ...
* Peel District School Board
* Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
* Halifax Regional School Board
* Halton District School Board
* Halton Catholic District School Board
* Chignecto-Central Regional School Board
* Annapolis Valley Regional School Board
The Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education (AVRCE) (formerly Annapolis Valley Regional School Board) is the public school district responsible for the approximately 40 elementary, middle level, and high schools in Annapolis County, Kings Co ...
* Anglophone East School District
Anglophone East School District is a Canadian school district in South-East New Brunswick. The district is an Anglophone district operating 39 public schools from grades Kindergarten to 12 in Albert and Westmorland counties. The name of the scho ...
** Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario
The Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario, also widely known as CEPEO, is the public school board responsible for education in the French language in Eastern Ontario, including the Ottawa area. The board consists of 12 trustees and ...
** Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est
* Upper Canada District School Board
* Simcoe County District School Board
* York Region District School Board
The York Region District School Board (YRDSB) is the English-language public school board for the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada. The York Region District School Board is the province's third-largest school board after Toronto' ...
* York Region Transit
York Region Transit (YRT) is the public transit operator in York Region, Ontario, Canada. Its headquarters are in Richmond Hill, at 50 High Tech Road.
YRT operates 65 full-time, rush hour and limited routes, 35 school services, and six Viva bu ...
- Student Express routesYork Region Transit proposed contract extension Student Express (Stock Transportation)
Operations
All of National Passenger Service's buses are equipped with
Zonar GPS technology which enables their staff to observe real-time the position of all of their bus fleet.
Roster
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Corbeil/GMC minibus - GMC 2500 chassis
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Ford E350 Super Duty minibus
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Chevrolet minibus - 3500 chassis
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International 3800
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-T444E
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Freightliner FS-65
The Freightliner FS-65 is a cowled school bus chassis (conventional style) that was manufactured by Freightliner from 1997 to 2008. Derived from the Freightliner FL-Series medium-duty trucks, the FS-65 was produced primarily for school bus appl ...
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Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2
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IC Corporation CE200
See also
*
Durham School Services
Durham School Services is a school bus operator providing tendered pupil transportation throughout the United States, based in Lisle, Illinois, and currently operating in 32 states. Founded in 1917 with three buses in the San Gabriel Valley, it ...
*
Bus companies in Ontario Bus companies in Ontario range in scale from small family-run businesses to subsidiaries of large international transportation groups. Many operate yellow school buses for student transportation on behalf of local school boards, while others concent ...
References
External links
Stock Transportation websiteNational Express LLC website
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Bus transport in Nova Scotia
Bus transport in Ontario
National Express companies
School bus operators