About Us
Our transportation team provides safe, efficient, and professional services to get students to and from school. Our school bus drivers focus on making positive, connections with students each and every day.
Department Phone: (559)-931-8130
Weather Hotline Phone: (559)-931-8131
Our Services
- Our department provides a curb-to-curb transportation service for special education students.
- Our buses travel over 950,000 miles annually and transport an average of 5,000 students daily.
- In addition to the regular morning and afternoon routes, the district provides transportation services for various extra-curricular activities and sports trips.
- Home-to-school transportation is approximately 20% of VUSD's student population.
- Maintenance for 100 District owned school buses and an additional 205 maintenance, custodial, grounds, food service and other District owned vehicles.
- Visalia Unified School District certified school bus drivers have a total of over 750 combined years of school bus driving experience.
- The Fieldtrip / Routing Team & Instructors Team
- TK-Kindergarten Transportation Request and Special Considerations Forms
- Fieldtrip Request Google Form
- Foggy Day Schedule
The Fieldtrip / Routing Team & Instructors Team
TK-Kindergarten Transportation Request and Special Considerations Forms
Fieldtrip Request Google Form
Foggy Day Schedule
Stopfinder
Launching Spring of 2024. Find out more about this safety and communications feature.
Join the Team
Our nation is currently experiencing a bus driver shortage. Due to the constant shortage, VUSD offers school bus driver classroom training courses once a year.
For more information contact the transportation Training department.
Transportation Staff
Sylvia Alvarez
SR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, TRANSPORTATION
Gerardo Aranzazu
VEHICLE MAINTENANCE LEAD
Lorraine Aguilar
BUS DRIVER/UTILITY TEAM PERSON
Vanessa Aguilera-Alvarez
SPECIAL ED AIDE, BUS RIDER
Brianna Alvarado
BUS DRIVER
Mark Alvarez
BUS DRIVER
Nancy Bautista
BUS DRIVER
Hector Bernal Atilano
BUS DRIVER
Emma Bostwick
SPECIAL ED AIDE, BUS RIDER
Tiffany Bostwick
BUS DRIVER/UTILITY TEAM PERSON
Alisha Bowman
BUS DRIVER/UTILITY TEAM PERSON
Jerry Bush
BUS DRIVER
Sandie Bush
BUS DRIVER/UTILITY TEAM PERSON
Gloria Canales
BUS DRIVER