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Desperately looking for school bus drivers

2023-03-05T19:18:22.142Z


REPORT - Every day, they support more than 2 million students on the roads of France. Sometimes unloved but essential, this profession faces a worrying shortage of staff, which has worsened since the health crisis.


The Iveco Crossway coach parks gently in front of the Condorcet college in Bresles, a town in the Oise with 4,000 inhabitants.

Blond hair cut very short, multi-pierced ears, Adeline Autin triggers the opening of the front door of her vehicle, in front of which there are already about twenty students.

The teenagers come upstairs, mumble or trumpet a hello, pass their card in front of the reader, settle down.

After recalling the rules -

"We attach ourselves, we do not speak loudly, we put on our headphones if we listen to music!"

- and checked the fastening of the seat belts, the young woman of 29 years starts, the radio Chante France in the background.

This line 525, she knows it by heart.

Four days a week, excluding school holidays, it starts at 4.35 p.m. from Bresles college, drops off

“its”

students at Fay-Saint-Quentin at 4.45 p.m., at Fouquerolles at 4.51 p.m. and at Lafraye at 4.59 p.m., before driving empty to Beauvais bus station for its next trip.

Among his six...

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Source: lefigaro

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