Work Unit Overview: Madison County provides transportation services to Senior Citizens including persons with disabilities and developmentally disabled individuals requiring special assistance. The county system may include fixed routes with set schedules or coordinate citizens’ door-to-door transportation, which is door to door service for qualified citizens at flexible times.
Job Summary: The Senior Citizen Shuttle Driver drives passenger vans, buses, or motor coaches to safely transport county citizens while obeying all traffic laws. This may include transporting the general public, senior citizens and/or developmentally disabled individuals on fixed routes with set schedules, door-to-door service, charters, and/or other specialized trips for various purposes.
The job requires knowledge of federal, state, and local traffic laws and regulations; bus/van/passenger vehicle operation and light maintenance, the main traffic arteries in the county, map reading, and methods of performing basic pre-trip vehicles to ensure assigned bus/van is in safe operating order.
The job requires skills in operating buses, vans, lifts, wheelchairs, radios, and other specialized equipment.
The job requires the ability to maintain required records, read and write, demonstrate physical strength and agility sufficient to assist the disabled and wheelchair clients, and display a high degree of skill in all operations of the bus.
