Featured Vendor: Transportation Svcs
Contracted Transportation Services (to include McKinney-Vento Eligible Services) Contracts
Assist Services, LLC
Assist Services, LLC. provides student transportation services, including McKinney-Vento eligible transportation to all members statewide.
About Vendor
Assist Services, LLC provides:
- Alternative Transportation Services for Schools, School Districts, and Agencies that serve children:
- McKinney-Vento transportation
- Special Needs transportation
- Foster transportation
- IEP transportation
- Individual student transportation
- Small-group student transportation
- Children that ride with us are matched with a consistent daily driver. We provide any special equipment needed, such as car seats, booster seats, and safety straps for harnesses.
River North Transit, LLC (Via Student Transit)
River North Transit, LLC., provides student transportation services, including McKinney-Vento eligible transportation to all members statewide. They also provide transportation for special needs students.
About Vendor
Via Student Transit empowers school districts and municipalities to offer equitable mobility for all — including McKinney-Vento and Foster students, students with disabilities, students with IEPs, and students living in difficult-to-serve areas or areas affected by driver shortages. We provide vetted drivers, licenses vehicles and best in-class tracking technology for administrators and caregivers/parents. Via combines years of experience serving populations with unique transportation needs with our industry-leading technology to provide safe, reliable student transportation. At the intersection of transportation and technology, Via is a visionary market leader that aims to improve the way the world moves, delivering services and technology in 750 cities and more than 50 countries.
Caringtrans, LLC., dba Care Transit
Care Transit provides regional student transportation services, including McKinney-Vento eligible transportation for members in Maricopa County. They offer services for special needs students, including those requiring wheelchair van service, and assistance for the blind and hearing impaired. They can accommodate any other Individualized Education Program (IEP) requests, such as providing 4-point harnesses and on-board student aides. They provide age-appropriate car seats, booster seats, GPS tracking, live camera stream, and route-sharing for parents/guardians at no charge.
About Vendor
Caringtrans, LLC., DBA: Care Transit, has proudly served the greater Phoenix metropolitan area for 26 years, specializing in safe and reliable children’s transportation services. We partner with school districts to ensure that every student, whether with special needs, general education, autistic, wheelchair-bound, or McKinney Vento/homeless—receives the support they need. Our fleet of 60 vehicles is equipped with state-of-the-art routing software, dual GPS tracking systems, and a comprehensive four-camera monitoring setup, ensuring a high level of oversight during every transport. Our highly trained drivers and dedicated aides prioritize student safety and well-being, providing a nurturing environment on every journey. Choose Care Transit for your transportation needs and experience our commitment to excellence.
HopSkipDrive, Inc.
HopSkipDrive, Inc., provides regional student transportation including McKinney-Vento eligible transportation. The regions services are included are: Maricopa County, including Central Phoenix, Scottsdale-Paradise Valley, East Valley, West Valley, Southwest Valley; and Tucson metropolitan area.
About Vendor
HopSkipDrive is a company with a mission: to create opportunity for all through mobility. We operate in eight states (including Arizona), Washington D.C., and 15 major markets throughout the United States, partnering with schools, districts and counties to support the transportation needs of children ages six and up, particularly those with IEPS with transportation requirements, youth in foster care and youth experiencing homelessness. Our services have expanded to arranging transportation for older adults, as well as anyone who needs a little extra care.
Statewide Other Contracted Transportation Services & Regional Student Transportation including McKinney-Vento eligible transportation:
Desert Choice Transport, LLC
Desert Choice Transport, LLC. provides regional (Maricopa and Pinal Counties) student transportation, including special needs and McKinney-Vento eligible transportation and statewide other contracted transportation services (e.g. chartered school bus, bus) with or without Bus Aide, and CDL Driver only services.
About Vendor
Desert Choice Transport offers a range of student transportation services that leave you in control. Partner with Desert Choice Transport to supplement your transportation department. We offer General Education and Special Education Home-to-School transportation services, McKinney-Vento transportation, Driver-only service options and field and athletic trip transportation. Desert Choice Transport is A-rated by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
Our Bus Driver leasing program is designed to support schools with an immediate need for substitute CDL-certified school bus drivers, relieving you of the stress that comes with uncovered routes.
