The van line your school already knows, without the headaches.
Teachers call one number to cancel a ride or hear where the van is. Drivers see the route on their phone and get a popup for every change. The office sees all of it, live.
Get started ▶ Watch the 6-minute tourNothing for teachers to install, no hardware to buy, set up in a few days.
New this fall NEW
Built with the schools that use RideLine every day.
Substitutes
A teacher is out for a week? Pick the dates and the substitute: every ride comes up, day by day, to change a time or a van. The drivers are told, and the substitute can call the phone line from her own phone.
Several days
Staying at her mother's for a week, or coming in later all week? Change her address or times for just those days. The weekly routes stay as they are.
Which van is she on?
Type a teacher's name, phone or address and see her van, route and time today, and the rest of the week. One click jumps to that van.
Late start or early dismissal
School starts 30 minutes late tomorrow? Move a whole route later or earlier for one day. Drivers get a popup, and the phone line gives teachers the new times.
Click a van, see its route
The map shows your vans. Click one and its stops come up in order, checked off as the van reaches them, even when it drives past between GPS readings.
A login for each person
Give everyone in the office their own login, with only the tabs they need. A secretary who just follows the vans sees only the Live tab.
See it in 6 minutes
A teacher calls to cancel, then every tab: the live map, the search, substitutes, late start, the driver app and more. Made from the demo school.
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What it looks like
Real pages from the demo school. Names are blurred.
What it does
Works for vans and buses, any number of vehicles, one school or fifty.
For teachers
One number, and it knows you
Callers are recognised by their phone. Press 1 for where the van is, 2 to cancel a ride, 3 to hear or undo cancellations, 4 to leave a message, 0 for the office. A substitute is recognised by her own phone on the days she rides.
Where is my van
"You are stop number 3", "the van left school at 3:32", "you are the next stop". The van's position is fetched fresh the moment the teacher calls.
Cancel and undo by phone
Cancel a ride for any day ahead. Undo it by phone too, unless the ride is too close, which your school decides.
A real person when needed
Leave a voicemail for the office, or press 0 to reach someone at the school. Unknown callers are sent to the office.
For drivers
The route on their phone
Log in once with a cell number and a text code. Each route numbered from 1, a call button for every stop, finished routes folded away.
Google Maps for the whole route
One tap opens the stops still to make in Google Maps, in order, ending at school. Each route has its own button, also for tomorrow.
Stops check themselves off
A stop is ticked when the van arrives, drives right past it, or leaves after waiting there early. A stop the GPS missed, the driver ticks with one tap.
Popups they must read
A skipped or restored stop, a new stop, a changed time or a message from the office pops up, buzzes, and stays until they press OK.
Works like an app
Added to the home screen with alerts. Keeps the last route when the signal drops. Drivers at two schools switch between them.
Shares where the van is
With the tracking add-on, the driver's phone reports the van's position while the route runs. No hardware, or connect the school's own GPS.
For the office
Everything live on one page
A map with every van (click one for its route), each van's stops with who is on them, skip or restore a stop, message a driver, see when the driver pressed OK, and find which van any teacher is on.
Teachers, stops and drivers
Add and change them on the page, or paste the whole list from a spreadsheet at the start of the year with a preview of what changes.
Substitutes and changes
A substitute for a few days, a teacher's own change for a week, or one day at another address. Every ride comes up to adjust, the drivers are told, Undo puts it back.
Late start, early dismissal
Move a whole route later or earlier for one day. The drivers get a popup and the phone line gives teachers the new times.
Seats and voicemails
A warning when a route has more riders than seats. Voicemails to play and mark handled, by email too.
Bills and payments on the page
Invoices as PDF, pay by Zelle or check with a photo of it, see what is open. Nothing to install, nothing to mail.
Log, rules, logins, support
Every cancellation with who and when. Late-cancel cutoff, days of service, greeting, operator. A login per person with only the tabs they need. A Support button that reaches us.
Also: each school gets its own local number (or keep the one teachers know: we move it over, or you forward it), and a school coming from a spreadsheet brings its whole list in at once.
Plans start at $99 a month with the phone line, driver app and support included.