Taken for a ride: Major Mainland school bus company considers Hawai‘i

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on Hawai‘i’s runaway school bus costs.

The nation’s second-largest school bus company may soon be rolling into Hawai‘i.

Durham School Services, based in Chicago, has obtained the paperwork necessary to bid on school bus contracts up for grabs next month. A company official says Durham’s interest in the market was sparked after reading Civil Beat’s Taken For a Ride series, which documents how the lack of competition among local bus companies is to blame for runaway transportation costs.

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