Parents and guardians should be aware when hiring this service to ensure that it is properly regularized and safe
With the end of the holidays, children and adolescents return to attend educational institutions and school transportation is in high demand. Due to the rush of everyday life and logistical issues, many parents and guardians choose to hire this type of service, but it is necessary to be very careful when making this choice to ensure the safety of the little ones.
It is essential that family members hire only properly regularized services, which meet the legal and safety requirements provided for in traffic legislation. The Brazilian Traffic Code (CTB) itself establishes a series of parameters, which are complemented by the rules of each state:
Article 136. Vehicles specially intended for the collective driving of schoolchildren may only circulate on the roads with authorization issued by the executive traffic agency or entity of the States and the Federal District, requiring the following:
I – registration as a passenger vehicle;
II – semiannual inspection to verify mandatory and safety equipment;
III – painting of a horizontal strip in yellow, forty centimeters wide, at mid-height, along the entire length of the sides and rear of the bodywork, with the SCHOOL label;
IV – instantaneous equipment that cannot be altered for speed and time;
V – white, matte or yellow light lanterns arranged at the ends of the upper front part and red light lanterns arranged at the upper end of the rear part;
VI – seat belts in a number equal to the capacity;
VII – other mandatory requirements and equipment established by CONTRAN.
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If you are considering hiring a school van to take your child to school, do not close the contract until you have verified that the vehicle and the carrier have the proper credentials. The query can be made on the State Traffic Department (Detran) website or at the responsible agency in your state. In Minas Gerais, for example, this is the responsibility of the State Secretariat for Planning and Management (Seplag), while in Espírito Santo it is the responsibility of Detran-ES itself.
To check the situation of the vehicle and if the carrier has authorization, just inform:
The system shows only the vehicles and drivers qualified to carry out the activity, in addition to indicating the expiration date of the accreditation. This means that if there is no registration of the provider, the service is considered irregular, characterizing a clandestine vehicle or unauthorized carrier.
In addition, when the transport serves students up to nine years of age, the presence of a school monitor is mandatory. Throughout the journey, this professional must remain in the back seat, assisting children in boarding, disembarking and on the way between home and school.
The credentials that school transports must possess to be considered regular are not embellishments, they function as a guarantee that children are being transported in a suitable and safe vehicle by qualified people. This is because, to obtain and renew these documents, it is necessary to have:
In addition to electronic means, it is possible to check the signs of regularity of school transport by observing items in the vehicle itself or requiring some documents:
