# Student Transportation of America

Wall, New Jersey. A national student transportation contractor that buys family-owned bus operators, keeps them running under their own names, and picks up medical transport wherever a seller carried it.

- Website: https://ridesta.com

## The Firm

This is the buyer a school bus contractor is most likely to meet. It acquires family firms and leaves the brand standing inside what it calls its family of brands, which is why its releases name the seller: the name is the thing being preserved.

The sizes are searcher-adjacent at the top end and squarely searcher-scale below it. Tremblay's Bus Company of New Bedford and Fall River ran about four hundred vehicles on roughly thirty-five million dollars of revenue; Birnie Bus Service and Brandt Buses are multi-location regional operators.

Two of its purchases are the registry's only confirmed medical-transport evidence. Universal Transportation Systems of West Chester Township, Ohio ran school transportation alongside non-emergency medical work, and Brandt's Assist-to-Transport did the same in Wisconsin, which is how a trade with no dedicated publisher gets a buyer on the record at all.

Read again in September 2026: two purchases since Tremblay's, an Illinois contractor of nearly a thousand vehicles and an Ontario one, both filed under In the News rather than Press Releases, so a reader of the release index alone would miss them. Seven operators named inside the two bundle releases are rows now, dated by the bundle.

## In Its Trades

- School Bus Contractor: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-school-bus-contractor
- Medical Transport: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-medical-transport-business

The other confirmed bidders: LifeLine Ambulance Service (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/lifeline-ambulance), First Student (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/first-student).

## Confirmed Deals

Deals traced to announcements, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.

- Sunrise Transportation (2026-09-18): A Downers Grove, Illinois special needs contractor with nearly a thousand vehicles across Illinois and Connecticut. Source: https://ridesta.com/sunrise-transportation-joins-the-sta-family-of-brands-expanding-footprint-in-il-and-ct/
- G&L Stevenson Transport Ltd. (by the Canadian division) (2026-07-31): An Emeryville, Ontario contractor of more than 120 buses, bought by the Canadian division; not an American deal. Source: https://ridesta.com/student-transportation-of-canada-acquires-gl-stevenson-transport-ltd/
- Tremblay's Bus Company (2026-07-08): New Bedford and Fall River, Massachusetts operator of about 400 vehicles on roughly $35M of revenue. Source: https://ridesta.com/student-transportation-of-america-welcomes-tremblays-bus-company-to-the-sta-family-of-brands/
- Cook School Bus Lines, LTD (2025-10-02): A Wellington County, Ontario contractor named in the October 2025 bundle; not an American deal. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-achieves-100m-in-growth-as-strategic-acquisitions-and-market-expansions-accelerate/
- Star & Strand Transportation, Inc. (2025-10-02): A Troy, New York school and charter contractor across the Capital Region, named in the October 2025 bundle. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-achieves-100m-in-growth-as-strategic-acquisitions-and-market-expansions-accelerate/
- ABC Student Transportation (2025-10-02): A Detroit contractor serving Wayne County, named in the October 2025 bundle with no day of its own. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-achieves-100m-in-growth-as-strategic-acquisitions-and-market-expansions-accelerate/
- Universal Transportation Systems (2025-10-02): West Chester Township, Ohio school transportation, non-emergency medical transport and charter. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-achieves-100m-in-growth-as-strategic-acquisitions-and-market-expansions-accelerate/
- West Point Tours, Inc. (2025-01-23): A Vails Gate, New York school coach, charter and tour operator, named in the January 2025 bundle. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-executes-series-of-acquisitions-to-fuel-us-operations-expand-nationwide-customer-footprint/
- Desert Choice Transport, LLC (2025-01-23): A Phoenix contractor serving public, private and charter schools, named in the January 2025 bundle. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-executes-series-of-acquisitions-to-fuel-us-operations-expand-nationwide-customer-footprint/
- VW Trans, LLC (2025-01-23): An Orange County, New York special needs transportation company, named in the January 2025 bundle. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-executes-series-of-acquisitions-to-fuel-us-operations-expand-nationwide-customer-footprint/
- Visconti Bus Service, LLC (2025-01-23): A Newburgh, New York student transportation company, named in the January 2025 bundle. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-executes-series-of-acquisitions-to-fuel-us-operations-expand-nationwide-customer-footprint/
- Birnie Bus Service and Birnie Transit (2025-01-23): Multi-location New York student transport, charter, transit and special-needs operator. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-executes-series-of-acquisitions-to-fuel-us-operations-expand-nationwide-customer-footprint/
- Brandt Buses and Assist-to-Transport (2025-01-23): Manitowoc, Wisconsin student transport, public transit and medical transport. Source: https://ridesta.com/sta-executes-series-of-acquisitions-to-fuel-us-operations-expand-nationwide-customer-footprint/

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Last checked: 2026-09-18

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