BusWhere School Bus Tracking 4+

After weeks of frustration not knowing if or when the bus will show up, this app has been great! We use it every day! So far, the only negative feedback I can provide is that lately there has been a delay on where the bus is on the map, and where it physically is! The other day it showed up but the little bus in the app indicated it was 2 minutes away!

When this app works it is incredibly helpful. The amount of times it lags or just doesn’t work is incredibly frustrating. When the regular bus driver is doing the bus run you get into the routine of things and the app is not as necessary. But when there is a substitute, being able to track where the bus is can mean the difference between 15-20 minutes.

In one instance we were alerted that the bus was on its way 30 minutes before the normal alert time. Thankfully I could actually see that the bus was still at the bus lot on the map and didn’t have to rush my child out the door.

Just this morning the app froze up again. I closed and reopened it several times. Then I got a message saying now I don’t have access.

This app is really helpful when it works. Our school district started using it this year. We don’t have to wait in the cold anymore.

However with a caveat! Often times when it’s cloudy, all we see is Waiting for GPS’ and we have no way to know where the bus is. In Pittsburgh, majority of the days, it will be either cloudy or raining. If the device on the bus is not communicating with GPS the driver needs to be notified. Atleast he should be able to set the location of the bus manually and display that location as text or push a notification in the app.