Dear Bus Driver is a powerful and affirming tribute to one of the most overlooked roles in education: the school bus driver.
Drawing from real-life experience, thoughtful leadership, and years spent inside student transportation, author Vincent Hall reveals the often unseen influence drivers carry every day. From the first greeting of the morning to the final stop in the afternoon, drivers shape more than routes. They shape emotions, safety, trust, and stability for the students and families they serve.
This book reframes transportation not as “just a job,” but as a calling marked by responsibility, leadership, and lasting impact. Through practical insight and authentic reflection, Hall explores the essential pillars of the profession, including safety, patience, conflict management, teamwork, leadership, wellness, professional growth, and legacy.
Written for drivers at every stage of their journey, as well as dispatchers, mechanics, trainers, administrators, and anyone who wants to better understand the critical role transportation plays in education, Dear Bus Driver offers encouragement, perspective, and a renewed sense of purpose.
This is not just a book about buses.
It is a guide for those who carry lives.
A reminder that leadership does not always come with a title.
Because some of the most important work in education begins behind the wheel of a yellow bus.
