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BY PEKAY PETTUS
MUTT ATKINS first drove a Rappahannock county school bus back in 1929, when “the mud in wintertime let alone the snow was so deep the bus had to have chains to get through.” Last year, Mutt drove his route all season without even snow tires. This year he’s not drivine at all.
Mutt Atkins is 65, and though his eyesight is “100% perfect” and he just passed his driving test, state law prevents him from operating either a motorcycle or a school bus.
On the first day of 1974, the first in 44 years that he won’t be “hauling kids” twice a day,” Mutt reflected on his time as a school bus driver and his two terms as Supervisor of Transportation for Rappahannock County schools. In the process, he related something of a history, a history of getting kids to and from school in a rural mountain county.
WHEN MUTT first starting driving a school bus he was only “helping out” his brother James, “who was contracted to the school board; our first bus was a homemade body with a
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