Student Transportation Permit and Certification

•  BC School Boards and Independent Schools maintain a set policy towards transportation, if you, an educator or parent volunteer, are uncertain about the regulations as they pertain to your specific school, please review the policy with your Principal or School Board Administrator.
  
• When contacting a Charter Motor Coach Operator for services for an extra-curricular trip, field trip, or overnight trip, be certain to ask to ensure your highway coach has a valid “School Bus Permit”.
  
•  All International Stage Lines vehicles are licensed and approved by the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles of British Columbia.
  
•  All of our highway coaches, excluding our 20 passenger mini coaches, are School Bus Permitted. For small school groups we will extend pricing for our minicoach, but will send a larger bus at no extra cost to meet the School Bus Permit requirement.
  
•  A decal, stating the expiry of the Permit, is clearly visible on the entrance door of all of our coaches.
  
•  All commercial buses have a stated passenger carrying capacity. It is essential that staff using buses establish the carrying capacity and not ask drivers to load buses beyond the approved limit.
  
•  School supervisors should travel with students on buses at all times, and students must remain seated while buses are in motion.
  
• Food & beverages are permitted on board.
  
• The supervisors will establish and maintain an accurate and up to date list of passengers riding in a school bus that is being used as non-scheduled transportation.
  
• International Stage Lines Carries ICBC $15,000,000,000 Third-party Liability insurance.
  
• Please remember to ask for a School Bus Permitted coach, as not all bus companies in British Columbia, maintain the extra safety inspection that is required to permit and designate a highway coach for School Bus Services.