A school bus contractor is a private company or proprietorship that provides

student transport Student transport is the transporting of children and teenagers to and from schools and school events. School transport can be undertaken by school students themselves (on foot, bicycle or perhaps horseback; or for older students, by car), they ...

services to a school district or non-public school. Of the 450,000 school buses operating in the United States, it is estimated that approximately 39% are operated by school bus

contractor A contractor is a person or company that performs work on a contract basis. The term may refer to: Business roles * Defense contractor, arms industry which provides weapons or military goods to a government * General contractor, an individual o ...

s. In Canada (with some still operated by the school boards) and the United Kingdom, almost all school transportation is performed by contractors. A school bus contractor may range in size from an individual driver with a single bus, to a small company serving a single school or district, to a large multi-national company with as many as 60,000 buses.About First Student - School Bus Transportation Services Company
/ref> Major school bus contractors currently operating in the United States and Canada include First Student, National Express, and Student Transportation Inc.

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