Transdev’s Season of Service: Back-to-School Spirit in Action
At Transdev, serving the community goes beyond transportation. Through our Season of Service initiative, we encourage teams across the country to find ways to give back locally throughout the year. As students prepared to head back to class this fall, our teams in Pinellas County, Florida, and the City of Beaumont, Texas, embraced the spirit of service with meaningful back-to-school projects that made a lasting impact on children, parents, and schools in their communities.
Pinellas County
Building Partnerships for the Future
When Transdev began operations in Pinellas County, opportunities for community engagement had not yet been fully realized. That quickly evolved under the leadership of General Manager Tom Tibbetts, Assistant General Manager Tom Ennis, and Safety Manager Ronald Moses, with guidance from Senior Vice President Derrick Breun. Recognizing the importance of early outreach, the team partnered with Enterprise Village to help fifth graders prepare for their transition into middle school.
Staff collected and delivered a van full of backpacks and supplies, including 100 notebooks, carefully planning what items teachers could purchase on tight budgets. Drivers and team members personally delivered the donations, asking what else they could do to support local classrooms. Teachers and parents were deeply appreciative, even helping load the donations onto a school bus.
Beyond school support, the Pinellas team has transported Wounded Warriors, supported wheelchair rugby athletes, and is already planning their next project focused on cancer awareness. For many of the location’s drivers, these projects have been eye-opening.
“We’re in the business of helping people,” one employee shared. “When we do things like this, it shows the community we care, and it feels like we’re helping to shape the future.”
City of Beaumont
The Zip Takes You to School
In Beaumont, General Manager Claudia San Miguel and Operators Denise Moore and Liz Harmond launched their first-ever back-to-school drive through the city’s transit service, known as Zip. What started as an idea among six employees quickly grew into a team-wide, all-volunteer effort involving drivers, their families, passengers, and friends.
The group collected enough supplies to fully stock 75 backpacks with notebooks, folders, pencils, crayons, and more. In August, students and parents gathered at the Dannenbaum Transfer Station to pick up their backpacks. Children even got to step aboard a Zip bus, turning a simple supply pickup into a memorable experience.
The reaction was overwhelming. Donations exceeded expectations, parents expressed relief at the financial burden lifted, and kids left with smiles that said it all.
As one organizer put it,
“It was so rewarding to see the kids’ excitement, but seeing the parents’ gratitude showed us just how much this all really mattered.”
Season of Service in Action
Together, these efforts in Pinellas County and Beaumont represent the heart of Transdev’s Season of Service – an initiative to strengthen our local connections, uplift communities, and remind everyone that we are more than a transportation provider. By supporting schools, families, veterans, and local organizations, our teams are helping shape stronger, more resilient communities.
And this is only the beginning. As more locations embrace the Season of Service, the positive impact will continue to grow because at Transdev, service is at the heart of everything we do.
