Southland Transportation Ltd

Negative experience: If I can give 0 Star I will , my kids spent 40 minutes in the cold. And it's not the first time. The app mybusstop shows nothing it doesn't work, so there is no way I can check if the bus is coming or not. Hopefully you guys work on this.

Negative experience: Today I experienced a huge stress when a school bus almost crashed into me at full speed. I understand everything, but the driver did not even apologize. I hope there were no children on the bus

Negative experience: The person who interviewed me was unprofessional.He made me feel uncomfortable.It was a waste of time!!

Negative experience: Once again our route has been affected by delays but this time not due to breakdown. Because the substitute bus driver won’t even show up! Our bus driver took a two day leave ahead of time. So yesterday and this morning it showed a 80 minute delay! I was so irritated because we are middle schoolers and we have a ton of work to do there and in the afternoon we are exhausted but the bus doesn’t even show up! If you arrange a substitute driver atleast have them show up on time!

Negative experience: Today is the 14th times delay during two months! And it delayed 60+90mins, so you want grade 1 students to wait until 7pm to go home? Every year the price increases, and the service quality decreases. This is the 14th time, since the start of the year, the bus has been delayed. Yesterday it was delayed for 2 hours in the morning and another in the afternoon, today it was delayed another 60 minutes. If you can’t find bus drivers maybe you can start paying them more! Where is all the money we pay going to? Your pockets?

Negative experience: Rude staff very unprofessional with the miserable attitude not even one person was with welcoming and positive attitude.

Negative experience: Don’t waste your time with them……

Negative experience: Please do yourself a favor and don't even apply here. They lie about how much you're paid per hour (the recruiter told me that they only pay for the time you were on the road, not your pre-trip or post-trip). Also, I popped in to see the recruiter (because the ad said that was possible) and all she could do was roll her eyes at my questions about the position. I understand you may be having a bad day, but how do you expect to hire people when you have that attitude as the first impression? I'm sorry I wasted my time here.

Negative experience: The app I’m using for my kids Mybusstop, is really bad! Could you please update it! I have to wait every single minute to refresh! Plus the driver I have for my route so rude.

Fantastic experience: We used Southland for our wedding shuttle and are glad we did so. Entirely smooth process from booking to the day of, and I’d like to thank their reservation team for all their hard work. Would definitely recommend.

Negative experience: I have class 4 license and more than 5 years of experience, clean abstract. What else you guys need ?? I feel you guys did racism to me…..

Negative experience: I’m sorry but I’m VERY disappointed in Southland Transportation for the regular problems they have with mechanical breakdowns and not being able to hire drivers who don’t regularly call in sick or for whatever other reason they cannot be on time to pick kids up in the morning or from school in the afternoon. With the hugely expensive bus fees they charge parents to transport kids, it’s totally unacceptable the poor level of service they provide. My daughter has been “late” to school more times that I can remember due to being over an hour late getting to school and has also had to wait over an hour to be picked up at the end of the day from school to be driven home. This makes for a very long day for these kids not to mention the extra time parents need to devote to pick them up. Never an apology or explanation from this monopoly of a school bus service! They should be held accountable and have to justify their increased costs. I’m guessing that they are like any other large organization these days it seems where they are top heavy with management and bureaucracy, fluff and marketing “Safety is number one” yet the condition of their vehicles is always called into question. I’m sure I’m not the only parent who is frustrated with this so I’m offering my two cents… I mean the almost $900/year to this outfit for sub-par service and performance. Do better Southland !!

Fantastic experience: Taking Bus Driving Lessons. Instructors are patient and thorough.

Fantastic experience: Good service from start to finish and very nice bus. will use this company in the future.

Fantastic experience: Had a great experience , The rate was amazing and the customer service was outstanding.

Fantastic experience: The bus was clean and looked brand new! Awesome service with really affordable prices.

Fantastic experience: Impressed with the bus that we used during our charter with Southland. Safe bus and great amenities as well. Price was also great

Fantastic experience: The rental that we got from here for our trip was amazing. Great quality bus and also happy that we had such a world class driver. Great experience overall and also the rate for the bus relative to the amenities offered was amazing. Truly a five star experience for our entire crew.

Fantastic experience: The charter service from here was exceptional. Nice customer service and very friendly. For us, the most impressive thing was how fast we were able to get a quote on our charter trip. It made booking our trip so much easier.

Fantastic experience: Very friendly people.

Fantastic experience: Nothing but good things to say about working with this company! 10/10

Fantastic experience: I received a short notice that I needed a bus for a field-trip. I called up about half a dozen different bus companies but they were not able to accommodate me because of such short notice. So I sent out a mass e-mail to about 10 charter companies here in Calgary. Southland Transportation was the first one to respond to my e-mail (and with a great deal too!) I spoke with a representative over the phone immediately who then personally drove my group of students to their field-trip destination. He arrived to our pick-up location early. The bus was clean and looked brand new! He was very friendly and communicated everything well. I would definitely recommend Southland Transportation Services to others.

Fantastic experience: Awesome service with really affordable prices. Buses were really nice and up class. I highly recommend Southland if you’re reading this!

Fantastic experience: Super easy booking. The whole thing took two steps and the office staff was very helpful and communicated well with any questions I had.

Fantastic experience: Had a great experience with Southland Transportation here in Calgary! They were very accommodating since we had a very last-minute bus service. They made sure that the process was quick, easy, and stress-free.

Fantastic experience: Great.

Fantastic experience: Managed restricted and running in routine and order . Company clerks are gentle and friendly. Their drivers have good driving skills and do their best for kids schooling

Fantastic experience: Safety is their raison d'être.

Fantastic experience: Learning how to drive school bus, very cool

Fantastic experience: All the people there are amazing.

Negative experience: It's so corrupt and unprofessional management

Negative experience: Terribly run organization. Just awful.

Fantastic experience: Best Bus and all staff doing hard work all time. The Human Resources doing asome jobe.its really a terrific Company and great Staff to start .providing a training for safety and security. All the best for Southland Transportation.

Fantastic experience: Nice and understand company

Positive experience: Good

Negative experience: Not happy with the customer service at all :( Very poor

Fantastic experience: Best bus company for a reason. Their training standards and expectations are very stringent. They rank high in safety due to diligent pre trip inspections and quality applicants for drivers.

Fantastic experience: Excellent

Negative experience: Idiots bad drivers

Fantastic experience: It's fairly easy and affordable to book a charter from here. They're definitely better than First Student and Wilco Transportation. They have a lot of newer bus as well; one being the clean air Blue Bird buses that run on Propane. If you want to get fancy, you can book one of the white C2 buses that come equipped with air conditioning (the yellow bus don't have this), luggage compartment above seats, and less of the school bus feel. They can fit around 72 passengers in one full size bus.

Fantastic experience: Training here

Negative experience: Great but didn't get the job

Positive experience: If u need to drive school bus it starts from this place

Positive experience: Excellent place for transport needs.