Job Description

Burnett Transit, school bus contractor for the Spencer, Colby and Abbotsford school districts currently has positions available for regular route school bus drivers for the 2007 – 2008 school year. 

Depending on the individual route the departure and return times may vary but generally the routes depart about 7:00 a.m. and return to the garage about 8:15 a.m. The afternoon routes are slightly longer (1.25 – 1.5 hours) due to the loading time at school. 

No experience is necessary – we will provide training. We reimburse all costs associated with obtaining your CDL (Commercial Driver License) including your updated personal driver license. (Very few companies reimburse the cost of updating your personal license.) The cost of obtaining your CDL can vary but include a pre-employment drug and alcohol screen, physical, practice driving license, road test fee and finally the updated personal license. These fees will range from $175.00 to $250.00. Again, we will reimburse all of these costs. 

All of our equipment is garaged in heated buildings. We employ only Master Certified ASE technicians – the only school bus company in Central Wisconsin to do so. All of our school buses are forward control (flat nosed) because they are proven to be safer, easier to maneuver and more reliable. 

Our pay scale is based upon the length of the route, number of passengers (load factor) and the difficulty of the route. For instance some routes have very few turn-arounds and some have many turn arounds. The shortest and easiest route would have starting pay of about $18.00 per route or $36.00 per day. A longer, more challenging route would have slightly higher pay of about $20.00 per route or $40.00 per day. Please recall that these amounts are based on about 2.5 to 3 hours per day; so the amount per hour is about $14.50 to $16.00 per hour. We also offer a “summer pay” program that is unique to any school bus company in Wisconsin. We devised a formula that takes into consideration how long the driver has been with Burnett Transit, how long the bus route was for the preceding year (in miles), and now many students rode the bus on the average. All these components together help determine how much pay the driver will receive during the summer – when they are not driving! 

We are currently seeking three drivers for regular school bus routes for the coming 2007 – 08 school year. For any candidate that is fully licensed and ready to go by August 10 we will pay a $500.00 signing bonus (paid 90 days after the first day of school.) 

Please contact Joe Burnett at the email address below or contact our office at 659-4391. 

jfburnett@progressivetravel.org

Thank you for your interest.