Safety is a routine
Why the morning bus check matters more than any policy document — and the non-negotiable daily drill I run before a single bus rolls.
Read →15 years running school transport — routes, buses, drivers, GPS, safety drills and the anxious parent call at 3:15 when a bus is five minutes late. I treat every seat as someone's child, because it is. Fifteen years, thousands of daily journeys, and a safety record I'll put in front of any board.
I came up through logistics and moved into school transport because the stakes felt real in a way freight never did — these aren't parcels, they're children whose parents trust a stranger with a steering wheel twice a day. That trust is the whole job, and I've spent fifteen years earning it one safe journey at a time.
I've built transport operations from a handful of buses to a thirty-two-vehicle fleet with live GPS, trained and retained drivers in a tough labour market, cleared every RTO fitness and CBSE safety audit, and kept a clean major-incident record across millions of kilometres. The number I'm proudest of is the one that never happened — the accident we prevented with a routine.
If your school or trust needs a transport incharge who treats safety as non-negotiable, keeps compliance watertight, handles drivers and parents with equal steadiness, and can be reached and trusted at 7 a.m. or 7 p.m. — my record and references are ready. Hand me the fleet that worries you.
Routes to roadworthiness, drivers to GPS, safety drills to parent comms — the whole transport operation.
Nothing about school transport is allowed to be 'mostly fine'. A bus is a classroom on wheels carrying the school's most precious cargo through the least controllable environment there is — traffic. So safety can't be a slogan on the side of the bus; it has to be a routine that runs whether anyone's watching or not. Daily checks, trained drivers, live tracking, and a plan for every 'what if'. When parents stop worrying about the bus, I've done my job.
Run a 32-bus fleet serving 3,500 students across the city. Introduced live GPS and a parent alert system, retrained the driver team, and hold a zero major-incident record with clean RTO and CBSE safety audits every year.
Managed routes, driver rosters and maintenance for a 20-bus operation; built the daily bus-check protocol still in use across the group's schools.
Fleet scheduling, driver coordination and vehicle upkeep — the operational grounding I brought into the school sector.
Why the morning bus check matters more than any policy document — and the non-negotiable daily drill I run before a single bus rolls.
Read →How proactive parent communication turns a panicked 3:15 phone call into a non-event. Systems that keep everyone calm.
Read →Skill is checkable; temperament is harder. How I recruit, train and keep drivers I'd put my own children behind.
Read →As a parent, I stopped worrying about the school bus the year Harpreet took over. Live tracking, calm updates, buses always on time.
ParentROUTE 7Eight years, thousands of journeys a day, not one serious incident. That isn't luck — it's the routine he enforces relentlessly.
PrincipalSAT PAUL MITTAL SCHOOLHe runs the tightest, safest fleet I've audited. Records immaculate, drivers well-trained, compliance always ready.
Transport AuditorRTO / SAFETY REVIEW