School and with that comes a possible bus driver shortage.”We started out last year with not enough drivers,” Boyd County Superintendent Bill Boblett said. That meant consolidating and even canceling some bus routes – so mechanics pitched in to drive. In some cases, they were working 12-hour days Boblett said the tide started to turn in the spring when the school system contracted with School Transportation Systems out of Lexington, Ky. The company uses a computer program to look at bus routes, showing which can be consolidated or reworked, saving miles on buses and taxpayer money. “That will allow us to be more efficient, allow us to not have as many routes,” Boblett said.