NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (WTNH) — The impending back-to-school season is also crunch time for New Britain-based transportation company DATTCO.

DATTCO said they currently don't have a bus driver shortage, like they did a few years ago. But they are hiring. The company provides in-house training to future drivers.

“We'll take someone who has never driven a bus from scratch and we'll help them walk through the permit process, the paper test process all the way up to the road test to get their CDL, a license to drive a school bus,” DATTCO Chief Operating Officer Kyle DeVivo said.

Maintenance crews are busy getting the DATTCO fleet of 400 new school buses ready for the new year.

"There's a check list we have to go through on every bus to make sure they are compliant and safe for the road,” Larry

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