School Bus and Charter. Finally in One System.
TBN School Bus brings your routes, drivers, actuals and payroll into the platform you already trust — with the visibility to see what actually happened, not just what was planned.
The Problem
(Sound familiar?)
Still running school routes on paper?
Most operators dispatch school routes off paper — or a workaround bolted onto charter software that was never built for it. The result is the same everywhere:
- No real-time view of what’s happening across your locations.
- Plan and actual never line up — and you find out at payroll, too late.
- Spares, extra moves and overtime hide in the payroll system where no one catches them.
- Two disconnected worlds: one tool for charter, paper for school bus.
The BIG idea.
One platform for everything you dispatch.
School contracts work just like scheduled service: a contract rolls down into routes, and routes roll down into the daily dispatches that drive your drivers, your actuals and your payroll. Run your charters and your school routes on the same board. Share drivers and assets across both. See it all in one place.
Four Core Capabilities
Visibility. Payroll. Dispatch. Integration.
Centralized Visibility
See what actually happened — not just what was planned.
- One live board for every location, instead of a free-for-all on paper
- Plan versus actual, side by side, in real time
- Spot spares, extra moves and exceptions the moment they happen
- Charters and school routes visible together on one screen
Payroll Control That Pays for Itself
Turn visibility into hard dollars.
- Driver actuals feed payroll automatically — no manual entry
- Pre-verify actuals against your own rules before they ever hit payroll
- Monitors and aides roll up cleanly alongside drivers
- Live locations have cut wage-to-revenue by up to 5 points
Smart Streamlined Dispatch
A dispatch board built for the way school bus actually runs.
- A dedicated School Route board — no charter clutter
- Filter by AM, PM, Midday or Late; group by driver or vehicle
- Awaiting Check-In replaces the paper-and-highlighter routine
- Handle delayed starts and early dismissals in a few clicks
- Default pay rates flow down automatically; manage the rest by exception
Your Data, In Automatically
No hardware to install everywhere. No double entry.
- Connect your routing software (Traversa today; Versatrans & Transfinder on request) through our Inatech integration
- Generate driver actuals from the vehicle hardware you already run — Zonar, Samsara and more
- Smaller operation? Build manually or upload via simple CSV templates
- Skip the expensive time-clock-at-every-location model of legacy tools
Up and Running in Three Steps.
Set up your contracts
Connect your data
Disptach, review, pay
Built by Operators
Built on a real fleet. Proven in production.
This isn’t theoretical software. TBN School Bus was built by one of the ten largest school bus operators in the country, on their own operation — managing thousands of dispatches a day across dozens of live locations.
Up to 5 Points lower wage-to-revenue.
in locations live on TBN School Bus. For many operators, a 1% payroll improvement alone can cover the software for the year.
Priced to pay for itself.
There’s no separate license for the school bus system — it works like our Tours product. You pay for the contracts and routes you actually run.
The payroll control alone can return more than it costs.
Each Contract
Each Route tied to the Contract
Welcome to the corner of innovation and profitability!
TBN customers love our our cutting edge, cloud based, tools that are driving up revenues, increasing efficiencies, and making business better for our operators. See them in action here-