Alberta school bus companies face driver shortages ahead of school year

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School buses across Alberta are short hundreds of drivers, weeks ahead of the start of another school year.

School bus companies across Alberta are short hundreds of drivers, weeks ahead of the start of another school year.

Critch said he suspects the shortage of drivers is part of larger labour shortages, and wants to see a “very different approach” used to attract more people to the job. One barrier to getting new drivers was unpaid training for multiple weeks, a matter the provincial government recently addressed.Parents suggest school bus driver shortage not only creating inconvenience, but safety concerns

Ian Foggo is one driver trainee who, prior to being laid off as a result of a brewery closure, didn’t consider getting behind the wheel of a big yellow bus.

 

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