Durham School Services

They’re exceptional in every way: as Veterans who have served our country, as heroes who protect the lives of children and for their award winning dedication to the safety of students we proudly guide to and from home and school every day.

We devote a significant amount of resources, training and development to our employees. We meet State and Federal mandates for school bus driver training in every State in which we operate. We teach our employees, passengers and communities how to be safe—on and off the school bus. We value the safety of children, employees and the public.

School buses are required to meet the most stringent safety regulations, and our drivers ensure they are operated safely. Employees are held accountable to meet the highest standards, ensuring the safety of your students. Because we care to the extent we do, our employees do the right thing.

We are industry leaders when it comes to maintaining our buses, to ensure passenger safety. Every school day, our drivers do a multi-point inspection before and after each route to check for maintenance issues that need immediate attention. In addition, all buses are subject to comprehensive preventive maintenance inspections at least three times a year; that is above and beyond government requirements. All inspections include examining everything from addressing cosmetic issues to checking tires, brakes, engine performance and suspension.

Our company is committed to staying current with changing technologies in the student transportation industry. The technology solutions we offer our customers are intended to provide increased safety and greater operational efficiencies.

One of our core values. Our safety program is comprehensive, from hiring and employee recognition to daily protocols and procedures, in order to ensure all your students are safe at all times when in our care. An effective safety program must encompass all aspects of transportation, including operations, training, maintenance, and administration, while remaining focused on people, students, employees and the public. Our number one responsibility is to protect against harm and to give our customers the confidence that we will provide safe and reliable service every day.

School transportation is unique to each student with special needs, and our company has a long history of partnering with districts for special needs transportation services because of the unique requirements. Many of our home to school brands started their companies in the same way, by providing busing to students with special needs. This specialization has helped us to nurture a unique commitment to quality service that
remains throughout our company.

We have maintained our passion for servicing the special needs community as we have grown our business for more than 100 years. Today, National Express School provides special needs transportation services from nearly 200 customer service centers throughout North America, and is privileged to transport more than 100,000 students with special needs to and from school daily.