Clovis Unified hiring school bus drivers, substitute drivers

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- This summer, portion mechanics are making definite Clovis Unified buses are successful moving order, Director of Transportation Steven Mirelez is making definite determination are qualified and trained radical to thrust them.

"So we're ever looking for certified autobus drivers, and for those who are wanting to go certified autobus drivers," Mirelez said.

He says applications are unfastened for substitute autobus drivers.

As agelong arsenic you are astatine slightest 18 years aged and person a valid driver's license, you tin apply.

"So you don't request immoderate commercialized driving experience. Those are things that you each summation erstwhile you travel done our program," Mirelez said.

If your exertion is accepted, you'll instrumentality portion successful the required minimum of 20 hours of curriculum.

Applicants volition spell done DMV and CHP investigating earlier receiving behind-the-wheel training.

After completing a minimum of 20 hours driving the bus, candidates instrumentality a driving trial with a CHP officer.

Once everything is complete, applicants volition person a commercialized licence and certificate allowing them to thrust schoolhouse buses successful the authorities of California.

The territory welcomes applicants from each backgrounds.

"We've had moms who are enactment astatine home, moms who travel and go schoolhouse autobus drivers, oregon radical conscionable are successful antithetic vocation change, oregon conscionable looking for thing new," Mirelez said.

Mirelez says determination is 1 circumstantial trait that sets applicants isolated and each operator indispensable have.

"The astir important portion of being a autobus operator is conscionable having the tendency to enactment with kids. We consciousness that's the astir important thing," Mirelez said.

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