John Dewhurst

• Prioritize/Organize transportation requests for boarders,students and staff as well as their sports teams, educational trips, Professional Development and airport for their flights.(over 1300 trips

2023-24school year).

• Confirming numbers of students and bus capacity.
• Overnight trips/itinerary confirmation. Booking external transportation providers as needed.
• Enter trips into electronic calendar for drivers schedule.
• Confirm details for UM(unaccompanied Minor) airport pick ups.
• Review daily schedule for adjustments to trips and adverse weather impacting trip times.
• Communicate with drivers ongoing construction traffic affecting trip times.
• Communicate with drivers regarding bus malfunctions and maintenance requirements.
• Communicating with MTO as needed and completing semi-annual safety compliance.
• Part of panel to interview new drivers as required.
• Research and purchase school vehicles, (Minibuses and Minivans) over 1 million in purchases to date.
• Streamline and implement maintenance programs for vehicles to limit breakdowns and reduce maintenance costs.(winter tires, rust protection schedule).
• Provide budgets for the CFO.
• Complete payroll and facilitate holiday requests.
• On-call for last minute requests or emergency breakdowns.
• Manage & motivate the members of my transportation team.
• Ongoing communications with Business Office to prevent any missed trips, provide costing for group trips.
• Communicating with drivers destination specific location details.
• Proactively communicating with various departments to confirm request needs.
• Always searching for possible safety issues and resolving before the need arises.