In Search for School Bus Drivers: 'At the end of the day when I go home and I put my head on the pillow, I know that I got those kids home safely,' the bus driver recruiter said.
"I tell a lot of people I chose this job, this job didn't choose me," said Jeannette Tierney, bus driver recruiter and lead trainer for the Upper Darby School District.Like many school districts these days, the Upper Darby School District is facing a bus driver shortage - and is"I tell a lot of people, 'I chose this job, this job didn't choose me,'" said Jeannette Tierney, bus driver recruiter and lead trainer for the Upper Darby School District.
They pay new employees to train for their CDL, which they said could take more than a month to complete depending on the person.
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