Helpful Links
Transportation Landing Page
(Employee Use Only. Login Required)
Current List of Closed Roads
Due to the effects of Tropical Storm Debby, our school district has been under an alternate transportation plan for school buses due to severe flooding and devastation to local roadways, especially dirt roads. On Wednesday, Aug. 28, some dirt roads reopened to bus travel, but these roads remain closed to buses and still require alternate bus stops:
- Aden Laner to Jim Waters to Sinkhole Road
- Akins Pond Road to Deer Crossing to County Road 8550
- Bonnett Road at Brack Road
- Club Road to R.L. Lee Extension to around the sharp curve
- D Anderson Road - barrels are around the washed out area
- Denver Lanier Road to Old Portal to Tru Fail Crossing
- Dekle Road to County Road 2611 to 2210
- Honey Bowen Road to Upper Lotts Creek Church (Bridge Out)
- Ibo Anderson Road at the Pond Dam (Ibo Lane to Melrose)
- Jim Waters to County Road 882 to Aden Lanier
- Twin Forks Road to County Road 935 to 964; County Road 1599 to Martin Road
- Arcola Bridge Road to Lee Road to Black Creek Church Road
- Brannen Pond / Brooklet Denmark Road
- Deloach Church Road
- Nevils Denmark Road to Nevils Groveland Road to Georgia Highway 46
Edulog Parent Portal Mobile App
Download our new EdulogParent Portal mobile application (app) to stay connected with your child's school bus route:
- Bus Arrival Notifications
- Planned Stop Information
- Incoming Messages from Transportation
- Access to All Children in the Family
Edulog Parent Portal Flyer (English)
Portal Para Padres de Edulog (Español)
Bus Services for Students
- Transportation Help Desk
- Transportation Request Form
- Bus Routes
- Safety Training for Students
Transportation Help Desk
Use our Transportation Services'online Help Desk for assistance.
Transportation Request Form
If you are a parent or a school district employee, and you need to make a request fortransportation services for a student, you may use this online request form. Our Transportation personnel will review and respond to the request.
Use this online Webquery tool to find your bus stop.
- To make a transportation request, use the Transportation Request Form
- For questions or concerns about transportation services, use the Transportation Help Desk.
Bus Routes
- We assign bus routes with a software program which calculates the nearest practical routes.
- Bus stops are designated by the Transportation Department and are placed at specific locations based on the distance to the next stop and safety of the location.
- Bus drivers may not change the location of a bus stop. Any changes to the location of a bus stop or requests for a bus stop to be added must be made by the Transportation Department director. Any requests for changes must be made using this Transportation Request Form.
- Bus service for students with special needs is provided according to a child'sindividual education plan. No out-of-zone transportation requests for School Choice Privilegeapplications are granted for any reason.
Safety Training for Students
Our drivers begineach new school year with student safety training. A tradition started more than 40 years ago by a former transportation director, Cathy Dixon, the annualSparkySchool Bus Safety Training Programensures that all students (11,400+) know how to properly get on and off a school bus, how to evacuate the bus in the event of a fire or accident, how to sit and use quiet voices on the bus, danger zones around a bus, and bus stop rules. Drivers also practice safe evacuations with students two times each year.
Jobs in Transportation
- Apply for a Job
- Bus Driver Qualifications
- Employee Pay Scales
- Commercial Driver's License Pre-Test Study Course
Apply for a Job
Bulloch County Schools' Transportation Department employees nearly 150 bus drivers, bus monitors, bus mechanics, clerical support staff, and administrators to safely manage pupil transportation services for our students. We regularly providefree bus driver trainingto prepare our new and existing staff. If you are interested in joining our driving force, visit our transportation jobs web page.
Bus Driver Qualifications
Our expectation is that our drivers be roving ambassadors and consider their school bus to be an extension of our classrooms. School bus drivers are the first and last face that many students see each day, soour bus drivers, bus monitors, bus mechanics, and all of our Transportation Department employees support our children and schools by providing the most safe, nurturing, and engaginglearning environment possible.
Before applying for a school bus driver job, please review our required bus driver qualifications and our required bus training information.
Employee Pay Scales
These are Bulloch County Schools' Certified and Non-Certified Pay Scales for employees and substitutescan be reviewed here. The majority of our Transportation Department personnel are considered non-certified employees.
Commercial Driver's License Pre-Test Study Course
School bus drivers are required to have a commercial driver's license with a passenger endorsem*nt. Applicants for our bus driver jobs are not required to have a commercial driver's license when they apply or bus driver experience. The school district trains applicants. Part of that training is helping applicants prepare to take the Georgia Department of Driver Services' Commercial Driver's License Test. You may watch our pre-test study video here.
Our Driving Force
- Our Fleet
- Buses Are Road Ready
- Safety Training for Drivers
Our Fleet
With a fleet of 163 buses, the school district’s drivers, mechanics, monitors and other support personnel ensure that twice each day more than 5,200 students, more than half of the total student enrollment, are delivered safely to and from school. Drivers travel more than 6,200 miles daily across more than 113 different routes. Drivers also travel an additional 52,000 miles annually for more than 1,300 field trips and athletic events, bringing the total annual miles traveled to more than 1.5 million miles.
Buses Are Road Ready
Buses today are equipped with more safety features than any other vehicles on the road, and before they are used to transport children for the first time, each must meet numerous state and federal safety requirements. The school system’s bus mechanics ensure buses remain road-ready. Every 20 days, they service each bus and perform general inspections.
Safety Training for Drivers
All drivers receive rigorous, specialized training on a variety of topics before they take the wheel behind a big yellow bus. First and second-year drivers go through mandatory training on student management, student privacy, first aid, railroad crossings, bus loading/unloading, fire extinguisher use, backdoor locking/unlocking, bus mechanics, preparing a bus for inspection, driving range, and preparing a bus for end-of-year return.
All Bulloch’s drivers are required to test their driving skills on a standard bus range to keep skills sharp and help handle real-world, driving situations. They also must attend a three-hour state safety training session annually.
Bulloch County Schools'Transportation Department helps ensure more than 5,500 children are transported to and from school safely each weekday from August to May.Our driving force travels more than 1.3 million miles annually to more than 100 bus stops and more than 1500 field trips and athletic events.These roving ambassadors are the first and last face that many of our students see each day, and our school buses are an extension of our classrooms. For this reason our bus drivers, bus monitors, bus mechanics, and all of our Transportation Department support staffplay a key role in ensuring that we provide the safest learning environment possible.
Key Contacts
Bulloch County Schools Transportation Department
Transportation, Maintenance & TechnologyAnnex
219 Simons Road
Statesboro, Georgia
