Welcome to the Transportation Department

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For any safety or driving concerns regarding independent contractor buses (buses numbered 1-199), please contact 1-833-432-8737.

For any safety or driving concerns regarding First Student buses (buses numbered 200 and above), please contact 423-498-5555 or visit www.firstfeedback.com

               For all other transportation inquiries please call 423-498-5555

Hamilton County Department of Education transports more than 20,000 students to and from school each day. There are 239 daily bus routes covering 20,000 miles each day and 3.5 million miles annually. Our mission is to provide safe and efficient transportation to and from school.

Please use the links on this page for common inquiries. To find out the closest stop to your address, please use the STOP INFORMATION link above. All stop requests are processed in the order they are received.

 Important Documents

Many of our documents are available to view or print in Adobe Acrobat format. If you don't have the free reader installed on your system, you can download it from the Adobe web site.