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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.

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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

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Michael Waters

SUBSTITUTE CERTIFICATED, Transportation

Brian Mitchell

COORDINATOR, TRANSPORTATION
Main: (559) 931-8130
Extension: 17101

Austin Dodds

COORDINATOR, TRANSPORTATION
Main: (559) 931-8130
Extension: 17103

Adriana Rojas

OFFICE MANAGER, TRANSPORTATION
Main: (559) 931-8130
Extension: 17106

Sylvia Alvarez

SR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, TRANSPORTATION

Marcial Rivera-Bravo

BUS DRIVER
Extension: 17111

Rafael Chavez

SHOP FOREMAN, TRANSPORTATION

Gerardo Aranzazu

VEHICLE MAINTENANCE LEAD

Sheila Freedenburg

DISPATCHER/ROUTER
Main: (559) 931-8130
Extension: 17112

Juliana Rodriguez

DISPATCHER / ROUTER
Extension: 17113

Sandra Davidson

DISPATCHER/ROUTER
Main: (559) 931-8130
Extension: 17114

James Stephens

DISPATCHER/ROUTER
Main: (559) 931-8130
Extension: 17115

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
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