Using charter buses provides numerous benefits that schools and families might not know. A charter bus company, unlike a conventional bus, is typically oriented toward serving families and schools. And a charter bus service, if it is successful, knows its customers.

Most Americans just know bus companies as the vehicles that take sometimes give people a ride between Boston and New York to save money. Yes, bus companies do this, but they can also be as family and community oriented as the local school bus service.

Chartering a bus is easy, since busing companies flourish by meeting the needs of their communities. They can also help school districts save on administrative costs, since charter buses only operate when needed rather than occupying a space in the school parking lot all day.

Some customers are reluctant to consider charter buses because they do not know who else has been riding on them, but many charter buses are set aside exclusively for serving schools and families. It is in the best interests of the busing companies to keep these buses in clean, workable condition.

Charter buses are also less likely to break down or experience technical difficulty than a conventional school busing service. With charter bus lines, a company priority is always to maintain the bus and insure that it is ready to go out and pick up kids tomorrow. School districts have concerns which are no less important but which compete for allocated funding when it comes to keeping the buses maintained.