Benefits of First Student Canada's Services

With First Student Canada as your transportation services partner, you have access to our expertise and industry best practices developed by safely transporting over 4 million students every day across North America.

Putting Safety First

Student safety starts with the best trained people, and safety is at the core of First Student Canada’s values. Our motto is simple, “If you can’t do it safely, don’t do it”.  It is that culture that is fostered through our safety and training programs, applicable to all our employees - management, our team of maintenance technicians and our school bus drivers. Safety and security are at the heart of all the services we provide.

Lowering Costs

First Student Canada's team of seasoned professionals provide time-tested solutions designed to help your school district, private school system, or organization reduce expenses while enhancing safety. By operating a vast, technology advanced bus fleet and closely managing costs, we help customers do more for less. Clients leverage our expertise and purchasing power to realize economies of scale otherwise not attainable. In fact, the majority of school district customers contracting with First Student Canada report significant savings. You pay a fixed price for service—there are no surprises, no hidden costs, and no unexpected overruns.

Maximizing Your Resources

We maintain our school bus fleets to the exacting standards of our proactive preventative maintenance programs, often exceeding Federal and Provincial regulations. Our maintenance programs have a proven track record of helping school divisions improve reliability and reduce bus downtime. By using failure analysis to identify root causes of a problem, we can implement action plans to achieve optimum levels of preventative maintenance across fleets.

Increasing Your Control

We manage day-to-day school bus fleet operations under your direction. Getting what you want from your transportation system is as simple as calling us and letting us work through the details. Your direction and our team of transportation professionals equates to an adaptive, flexible student transportation solution.

Simplifying Staffing

We provide all staffing necessary to smoothly operate your school transportation system. A transportation operations team built to service your needs is always available. You're ensured carefully selected and fully trained school bus drivers minus the time and cost associated with the recruitment, training, labor, medical checks, or liability headaches. All of our drivers go through stringent pre-employment screenings and background checks and are then provided with our ongoing training and development programs.

Preserving the Best

We build on what's already working well in your student transportation system, including the caring bus drivers you already employ. They know their routes, their students and even teachers and parents. Drivers who join the First Student Canada team are quick to note their smooth employment transition.

Delivering Transportation Quality & Value

We help you maintain or increase levels of student transportation services while eliminating the hassles of day-to-day operations. We deliver value through safety training, preventive maintenance, recruiting know-how, pre-employment testing, facilities management, fuel service, vehicle purchasing power and more.

Talk to First Student Canada's experts about your district's or division's specific goals and we will design a transportation solution tailored to your specific needs.