Driver’s Qualifications. The Contractor shall provide drivers who are trained and licensed in accordance with the California laws, rules, and regulations governing the operation of school transportation vehicles, federal laws governing Class A or B License holders and experienced with the regulations, handling, and supervision of special education students. All drivers shall have had CPR Training and First Aid Training and shall hold valid First Aid Certificates and CPR Certificates issued by the American Red Cross. Drivers are to be able to identify and properly cope with epileptic-type seizures. 8.1. Contractor shall follow mandated drug testing requirements for employees. 8.2. Each driver shall have knowledge of the operation of the mobile two-way radio and all federal regulations covering its use. 8.3. Pursuant to Education Code section 49406, Contractor’s responsibility for tuberculosis clearance extends to all of its employees, agents, and volunteers coming into contact with District students regardless of whether they are designated as employees or acting as independent contractors of the Contractor. Contractor shall ensure that any person providing any portion of the Services under the Agreement, within the past sixty (60) days, has submitted to a tuberculosis risk assessment, and if tuberculosis risk factors were identified, has been examined to determine that he or she is free of infectious tuberculosis by a licensed health care provider (i.e., physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or registered nurse). Contractor shall ensure that any person providing any portion of the Services with no identified risk factors or who tests negative for the tuberculosis infection shall undergo the tuberculosis risk assessment and, if risk factors are identified, the examination, at least once every four (4) years or more often if directed by 8.4. Drivers shall be required to check in with Contractor for messages before beginning a route. 8.5. A driver shall contact dispatcher immediately upon determination that the route shall be in excess of ten (10) minutes late. Dispatcher shall immediately notify all necessary persons, including parents/guardians. 8.6. Following California Department of Education guidelines, the Contractor shall employ at least one full-time trainer and safety instructor who will also personally travel each route with the assigned driver at least one each year to survey the driver’s performance, route hazards, and equipment efficiency. Driver records shall be made available for review by the District upon request. 8.7. The responsibility for hiring and discharging personnel shall rest entirely upon the Contractor. The Contractor further agrees that the District shall have the right to require removal from service any person or driver who, in the opinion of the District, is not qualified to operate a vehicle for service to the operating and safety standards required by the District. 8.8. Contractor agrees that it shall enter into no agreement or arrangement with any employee, person, group, organization, district or agency which will in any way interfere with the Contractor’s ability to comply to the full extent of the contract with the District and the requirements contained therein. 8.9. Contractor shall not assign for service under the Agreement any person who has been released, reassigned, transferred or otherwise removed from another route or assignment for any reason related to inappropriate conduct, verbal, physical, or otherwise, toward students or other persons.
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Driver’s Qualifications. The Contractor shall provide drivers who are trained and licensed in accordance with the California laws, rules, and regulations governing the operation of school transportation vehicles, federal laws governing Class A or B License holders and experienced with the regulations, handling, and supervision of special education students. All drivers shall have had CPR Training and First Aid Training and shall hold valid First Aid Certificates and CPR Certificates issued by the American Red Cross. Drivers are to be able to identify and properly cope with epileptic-type seizures.
8.19.1. Contractor shall follow mandated drug testing requirements for employees.
8.29.2. Each driver shall have knowledge of the operation of the mobile two-way radio and all federal regulations covering its use.
8.39.3. Pursuant to Education Code section 49406, Contractor’s responsibility for tuberculosis clearance extends to all of its employees, agents, and volunteers coming into contact with District students regardless of whether they are designated as employees or acting as independent contractors of the Contractor. Contractor shall ensure that any person providing any portion of the Services under the Agreement, within the past sixty (60) days, has submitted to a tuberculosis risk assessment, and if tuberculosis risk factors were identified, has been examined to determine that he or she is free of infectious tuberculosis by a licensed health care provider (i.e., physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or registered nurse). Contractor shall ensure that any person providing any portion of the Services with no identified risk factors or who tests negative for the tuberculosis infection shall undergo the tuberculosis risk assessment and, if risk factors are identified, the examination, at least once every four (4) years or more often if directed byby the Board of Education of the District upon recommendation of the local health officer.
8.49.4. Drivers shall be required to check in with Contractor for messages before beginning a route.
8.59.5. A driver shall contact dispatcher immediately upon determination that the route shall be in excess of ten (10) minutes late. Dispatcher shall immediately notify all necessary persons, including parents/guardians.
8.6. Following California Department of Education guidelines, the Contractor shall employ at least one full-time trainer and safety instructor who will also personally travel each route with the assigned driver at least one each year to survey the driver’s performance, route hazards, and equipment efficiency. Driver records shall be made available for review by the District upon request.
8.7. The responsibility for hiring and discharging personnel shall rest entirely upon the Contractor. The Contractor further agrees that the District shall have the right to require removal from service any person or driver who, in the opinion of the District, is not qualified to operate a vehicle for service to the operating and safety standards required by the District.
8.8. Contractor agrees that it shall enter into no agreement or arrangement with any employee, person, group, organization, district or agency which will in any way interfere with the Contractor’s ability to comply to the full extent of the contract with the District and the requirements contained therein.
8.9. Contractor shall not assign for service under the Agreement any person who has been released, reassigned, transferred or otherwise removed from another route or assignment for any reason related to inappropriate conduct, verbal, physical, or otherwise, toward students or other persons.
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