File: EEAEA

BUS DRIVER EXAMINIATION AND TRAINING

The Agawam School Committee will reserve the right to approve or disapprove persons employed by the bus contractor to drive school transportation vehicles.

1. Courteous and careful drivers will be required.

2. Each driver will file with school officials a medical certificate and proof of freedom from tuberculosis.

3. No person under 18 years nor over 70 years of age and only persons having a high character will be allowed to operate school buses.

4. Only persons who are properly licensed by the state and have completed the driver training program will be permitted to drive school buses.

5. The contractor will furnish the School Committee with a list of names of drivers and their safety records for the last three years.

6. In case of any change of bus drivers, the contractor will notify school officials as

soon as possible.

LEGAL REFS.: Highway Safety Program Standard No. 17

M.G.L. 90:7B; 90:8A; 90:8A 1/2