By BERNADETTE SUKLEY

Special to The Press

While teachers and instructors are managing to keep students on track this year, school bus drivers are also doing their best to achieve normalcy.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf proclaimed Oct. 21-25 School Bus Safety Week in the commonwealth.

“Bus drivers do an extraordinary job every day ensuring the safety of our children as they travel to and from school,” said Cpl. Zeina Black, permits and bus safety unit supervisor in the Commercial Vehicle Safety Division of the Bureau of Patrol for the Pennsylvania State Police.

“Through their continuing record of safely transporting students, school bus drivers earn the trust and faith that parents put in them daily.”

Brittany Williams said people are surprised when she tells them she drives a bus for the school district.

“They ask me if I really drive the ‘big’ bus,” she said. “I tell them yes, not the van, but the big bus.”

And Geli Haviland has been driving for almost 30 years.

She likes the job very much. But the weather? Not so much.

“I’ve been driving for 28 years, can you believe that?” she said.

Both women are part of the B&G Transportation team that gets the students to and from Northwestern Lehigh schools on a regular basis.