Chicago School Bus Companies Looking For Drivers This Fall

CHICAGO (CBS) — As reopening expands, one school bus vendor is already on the hunt for drivers to work in the fall. The only problem: the company can’t get enough applicants. As Morning Insider Tim McNicholas reports, companies are competing with COVID-19 fears and unemployment benefits.

The signs tell the story outside the Illinois Central School Bus Company: Now hiring.–up to $21 an hour. But contract manager Cynthia Sosnowski knows those signs can only do so much. “Everybody is in need of drivers,” Sosnowski said. “ I think people are kind of shy to come back to the unknown.”

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