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From WTOP News / By Scott Gelman / June 13, 2026 Click for video. Arlington (VA) families are getting a new way to track their kids’ school bus trips, as the Northern Virginia school district announced plans to work with the bus routing app Transfinder.The company’s parent app, called Stopfinder, uses GPS technology to track the buses. Parents receive an invitation from the school district and then download the app. Anyone who downloads the app and tries to use it without an [...]

From The Bulletin / By Dennis Wyatt / May 28, 2026Skyrocketing diesel prices are eating into Manteca Unified School District’s $357 million general fund budget.The district — that buses 2,398 students to and from school each day — in April spent 79 percent more on diesel despite only an 8 percent increase in usage.It is the result of California diesel prices soaring 65.8 percent per gallon since April 2025 compared to 26 percent for gasoline.“Those fuel costs create an [...]

Dear Valued Transfinder Client! Because we value our relationship, we are requesting that before engaging with a third-party vendor or going to RFP/RFI process please call us to determine if we have the tools you need.  We at Transfinder continue to evolve and innovate – we’ve won “best software“ two years in a row and just won our first “best hardware” award – and we simply are not the same company we were even a few years ago. And last [...]

From CBS News KTXA-TV / TXA 21  / By Caroline Vandergriff / January 27, 2023 CBS DFW FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Fort Worth ISD has taken the first step towards real-time school bus tracking for families, launching a new app to improve communication about transportation issues.  It's something the district promised families back in the fall, after several elementary school students were forced off a school bus at the wrong stop.Through the Stopfinder app, parents and [...]

Schenectady, NY (PRWEB) September 15, 2016 For the first time in Transfinder’s 28-year history, the routing software company is offering to buy out any school district’s contract with a competing routing software provider to demonstrate the value, safety and ease of Transfinder’s products.  “We speak daily with school districts that would love to ditch their current routing software program but feel stuck because of the investment they’ve put into the [...]