• The agglomeration of Nîmes, like others in France, is facing a shortage of school bus drivers.

    There are 11 drivers missing at Tango, "to fully provide the planned service".

  • For children and their parents, when traffic is disrupted, it's a hassle.

  • In an attempt to restore traffic, the Nîmes transport network offered, with Pôle emploi, training, on September 20, “to around sixty potential candidates for the job of bus driver”.

After the labor shortage in catering and wine-growing, it is the transport sector that is struggling to recruit.

All over France, companies are struggling, in particular, to find school bus drivers.

This is the case in Nîmes (Gard).

According to the agglomeration, of the approximately 15,000 students who reach their establishments every day with a Tango bus, nearly 300 of them are "impacted by this shortage of drivers, which affects in particular the peri-urban and rural lines serving the colleges of Bouillargues , Clarensac and Marguerittes”.

"As soon as a driver is missing, either the services he must perform on a given line are maintained thanks to the modulation of schedules if possible, or they are "degraded", that is to say partially provided by other drivers present, or they are deleted because no other driver can be assigned, ”indicates the community.

There are 11 drivers missing “to fully provide the planned service service”.

For children (and their parents), when traffic is disrupted, it's a big hassle.

Nathalie, mother of a high school student, is "obviously" angry.

Especially, she says, she is "never warned" in advance.

These days, it's getting by.

"We take him by car, or else my parents," she confides.

It happened several times.

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Isabelle's son goes to college by bus.

But the schedules are unsuitable, regrets this mother.

And some buses are packed.

The solution, when she can't do otherwise, is to “accompany him by car”.

“Beautiful green spirit, while I go to work on my bike!

she sighs.

The other alternative is that he "goes down on a scooter, when his bag is not too heavy".

But, given the traffic in the area, it does not delight his mother.

In an attempt to restore traffic, Transdev and the Coop Voyageurs 30, which work for the Nîmes transport network, offered, with Pôle emploi, training “to around sixty potential candidates for the bus driver profession”.

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Many have shown interest, and will begin training for three to six months.

Children and parents will therefore have to wait a little longer before everything is back to normal.

"We are aware of the efforts required of users until new drivers are trained", confides Claude de Girardi, delegate for urban and peri-urban road transport for the agglomeration, who promises that in the event of cancellation of a trip, the users concerned will be notified “the day before at the end of the day” on the Tango website and social networks.

In order "to allow families to organize themselves to accompany their children to their school".

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