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School Bus Safety Unit offers reminder about commercial driver’s license requirement

Reminder: Anyone who drives a school bus and/or activity bus with a passenger rating of 16 or more (including the driver) and/or a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) of 26,001 pounds or more, per federal and state law, is required to have a commercial driver’s license with a school bus and passenger (P&S) endorsement. 

No one is exempt from this requirement regardless of their position or title within the district.  

Anyone who possesses a CDL and drives a school bus or activity bus for the district is subject to federally mandated drug and alcohol testing. 

Anyone who drives a school bus or activity bus is required to have a DOT physical regardless of the passenger rating or GVWR. 

For questions regarding these requirements or other bus driver legal requirements, contact the Kansas State Department of Education’s School Bus Safety Unit. 

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Posted: Sep 14, 2023,
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Author: Ann Bush

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