BusRight

955 square miles. 8 bus routes. A transportation team made up of maintenance workers and retirees who drive in the mornings and afternoons. At Breckenridge ISD in rural north-central Texas, flexibility is a requirement of the job. Director of District Services Jeremy West oversees maintenance, grounds, custodial staff, and transportation. When a driver can't make it, he finds a solution. Even if that solution is himself. Before BusRight, putting a substitute behind the wheel meant handing them a flashlight and a handwritten paper route sheet with landmarks used for navigation. "Go down to where the dog's chained to the tree and take a right." Now, any driver can grab a tablet and go. Maintenance worker, sports coach, or West himself. "You can jump on that bus, turn that [BusRight] tablet on, and she's gonna tell you every turn and every stop. That's a huge benefit for us." After three decades in Texas education, West is retiring at the end of this school year. BusRight is part of his handoff plan, built into the foundation of how Breckenridge ISD runs. Read Breckenridge’s success story with BusRight:

Today is National School Bus Driver Appreciation Day, and we're announcing BusRight's inaugural Behind the Wheel Award. Here's how it works: Nominate a bus driver from your district who goes beyond the route. Tell us what makes them worth recognizing. If your district wins, we'll donate up to 300 refurbished Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3 tablets to your students - and your driver takes home a BusRight gift package. Districts are putting tablets like this to work in library lending programs, special education classrooms, field and vocational programs, and anywhere students need reliable access to technology. Every device includes a Samsung S Pen. Your district decides where they go. No BusRight account required. Open to every school in the country. Transportation is the front door to opportunity. The drivers who open it every day deserve to hear it. Nominations close May 28. Click the link to get started. https://bit.ly/3OISw76

Nelson County Schools operated 54 bus routes across 424 square miles of rural Kentucky, using paper route sheets. No real-time tracking. No student scan data. No way to know what was happening once a bus left the lot. Transportation Director Devin OBryan had already been through a failed legacy routing product and a second vendor whose tablets didn't deliver. He spent a year and a half researching before choosing BusRight. What made the difference: BusRight built around Nelson County's needs rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all system. "It wasn't trying to take other stuff and make it work," O'Bryan says. "It was, 'Hey, we're going to build it to be what it needs to be.'" The results since implementing BusRight: ✅ Zero canceled routes despite ongoing driver shortages ✅Substitute drivers running unfamiliar routes on day one with tablet navigation ✅Real-time rerouting that replaced radio chaos across 54 routes ✅A parent app giving families live ETAs that match the GPS on every bus  ✅Scan data replaced assumptions with actual ridership numbers For O'Bryan, it comes down to using data to make decisions. "We've gone from guessing to knowing. Every decision we make is backed by data — and that's changing how we serve students every single day." Read the full case study on how Nelson County is creating a data-driven transportation system

"School buses move more people every day than the entire U.S. airline industry. And yet the system runs on spreadsheets, radios, and sheer human effort.” Ubiquity Ventures wrote about what this $30M raise means for the 13k+ transportation directors who are managing the transportation of 1.5 billion students with unevolved tools and why the software that quietly powers the largest mass transit system real-world movement deserves more attention and investment. So grateful to Ubiquity Ventures for believing in this vision since 2022 🎉 https://lnkd.in/gMNu7cPw 

One school district saved $989,000 in their first year with BusRight. Another gets real-time visibility on every student, every route, every morning. This is what it looks like when the right technology finally reaches the right community. Thanks for the coverage, Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE & theCUBE. https://lnkd.in/gXAQs2C9

Sending a big thank you to The Wall Street Journal and Fortune for spotlighting BusRight in their recent newsletters after the announcement of our $30M fundraise led by Volition Capital. We're energized by the recognition and even more motivated to keep building technology that mobilizes our nation’s future. https://lnkd.in/gEWkENeQ

California's transportation leaders are navigating more complexity than ever: from SB 88 compliance to driver shortages. Our team will be at CASBO Con next week at Booth #342 to talk about how smarter routing can help. Stop by and say hello!

The best partners believe in the product, the people building it, and the community it serves. Volition Capital has been all three. Tomy Kihoon Han has been clear that this is a team and a mission worth championing for the long run. So glad to welcome him to our Board 🙌 https://lnkd.in/eKEGFfnD

“The wheels on the bus may go round and round, but that doesn’t mean the bus arrives on time.” That is, unless you’re using BusRight. Boston Business Journal Reporter Elias Chavez sat down with our Co-founder and CEO Keith Corso, former BostInno 25 Under 25 awardee, to talk about BusRight’s journey from initial concept to recent $30 million fundraise. What started as a high schooler watching buses make unnecessary stops has evolved into a company with a clear mission: ensuring every student gets to school safely, every time. https://lnkd.in/gpX5HJwU

Bear with us, it's been quite a day. 🙌 On top of our earlier funding announcement, our CEO Keith Corso is being recognized as a Trailblazer by School Bus Fleet, and we just had to share! The Trailblazers award series celebrates the under-40 school transportation pros who are shaking things up, from bold ideas that push student safety forward to the everyday leadership that makes their operations run better. A huge thank you to Amanda Huggett for capturing Keith's story, mission, and passion for his team and customers so well. We’re lucky to have him! https://lnkd.in/gUq2ybwN