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Live Webinar / September 9
Doing More
With Less
A Student Transportation Survival Guide. How student transportation professionals cover routes, keep drivers, and protect service when budgets aren't growing.
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Three student transportation professionals. Three Texas districts. Moderated by Josh Rice of BusPlanner.
The pressure
Everyone Is Being Asked
Everyone Is Being Asked
to Absorb More
Ridership expectations haven't shrunk, but budgets and hiring pools have. This session covers what actually works when those two realities collide, told by the people managing it right now.
01
Driver Retention
With fewer drivers to go around, every open route falls to staff who are already stretched thin. Learn how the panel keeps routes covered without burning out the people they most need to keep.
02
Operating Costs
Fuel, parts, and labor costs keep climbing while budgets hold flat. See where these directors found room in their operations before service had to absorb the difference.
03
Compliance and Reporting
State reporting deadlines don't ease up when you're short staffed. Hear how the panel stays audit ready without adding hours to an already full week.
Your panel
Directors Who've Made
Directors Who've Made
the Hard Calls
Learn directly from student transportation professionals leading Texas districts as they walk through what they cut, what they protected, and what they'd do differently. Real decisions, real numbers, and takeaways you can bring straight back to your own operation.
Tesilia Soliz
Director of Transportation
Northside ISD
San Antonio, TX
Summer Adams
Director of Transportation
Irving ISD
Irving, TX
Anthony Shields
Director of Transportation
Pearland ISD
President, TAPT
Josh Rice
Regional Sales Manager
BusPlanner
ModeratorBring your questions. The final fifteen minutes are a live Q&A, and the panel has committed to taking on the tough ones. If there's a problem you've been trying to solve, it's a rare chance to get answers from student transportation professionals who've made these calls.
The agenda
What We Will Get Into
Sixty focused minutes, designed so you leave with practical steps you can put to work this month.
Josh sets up the session and introduces the panel. The conversation is grounded in Texas districts, but the pressures on the table apply to any district heading into a tighter year.
Each director opens with the specific constraint they are managing this year, what it looked like on paper versus what it looked like on day one, and the first decision they had to make because of it.
Consolidation, tiering, and double runs, and the point where each one stops being worth it. What the panel has done on recruiting and retention that actually moved the numbers, and what turned out to make little difference.
Where the recoverable money usually hides: deadhead miles, bell time alignment, walk zone and eligibility review, field trip billing, and fleet decisions that get made once and pay out for years.
How the panel presents transportation to people who do not run transportation. Which numbers land, which ones get you questions you do not want, and how to protect a line item when everything is being reviewed.
Open floor. Submit questions when you register or drop them in the chat on the day. We will get through as many as we can, and anything we miss gets answered by email afterward.
One quick question
Have You Had to Cut, Combine, or Delay Routes Because of Budget in the Past Year?
It's one of the live polls we'll run during the session. Answer now to see where the conversation is heading.
Who this is for
Built for the People
Built for the People
Who Own the Outcome
Transportation directors and supervisors
Routing and dispatch staff
Operations and fleet managers
Business officials who own the transportation budget
Superintendents and cabinet level leaders
Anyone heading into budget season with fewer resources
Wednesday, September 9 / 1 PM ET
Spend One Focused Hour With People Who've Been There
Sixty minutes with student transportation professionals and a candid look at how to deliver more on a tighter budget. Free to attend, and we'll send the recording to everyone who registers.
