# Spare-driver ratio

A term used when buying school bus contractor.

Drivers held above the number the routes need, so an absence does not cancel a run.

A route that does not run is a contract breach and not a bad day, and the district notices. Because a driver takes months to credential and not a week, the ratio is the operational number that decides whether a contractor can bid the next route or has to decline it. Read it against the vacancy history instead of the payroll: a contractor running at zero spare is one illness away from a penalty and cannot grow at all.

Part of: Buying a School Bus Contractor (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-school-bus-contractor)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-school-bus-contractor/terms/spare-driver-ratio
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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