The agency is offering up to a $2,500 pay incentive as part of a new campaign to hire more bus drivers.
MARTA budgets for 1,366 full-time bus operators and currently has 1,179 on staff, representing a 14% deficit.
Driving Force was created to help the entire industry and companies of all sizes to attract and retain drivers.
The awards represent the highest ever funding level for these critical safety grants.
Julie Castillo was originally hired by Total Transit in 2001 as a medical transport driver, where she first illustrated her dedication to excellence.
Planned safety upgrades come less than three weeks after HART bus driver Thomas Dunn was murdered on the job by a passenger.
Since the 1970s, labor agreements required new transit operators start as part-time drivers and then seek promotion to full-time work.
The importance of a solid instructional staff should not be taken lightly. A weak, inconsistent instructor will produce a weak, inconsistent student.
The male passenger and female driver were the only people on the bus, with the driver able to hit an emergency alarm at some point.
Hiring and retaining drivers is the greatest challenge facing motorcoach operators, according to 70% of respondents of METRO Magazine's 2019 Motorcoach Survey. The public transit industry is not immune to this issue either.
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