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pick up the bodies. But we still used our chassis.”
According to Atkins, the entire fleet back then consisted of five or six buses. “That was all we had in the beginning.” Mutt went from bus driver to transportation superintendent as years passed. “When I started out, the only superintendent we had was the superintendent of schools.”
In almost a half century behind the wheel, Atkins doesn’t remember a single instance where a child under his care was hurt seriously enough to warrent a trip to the doctor’s. “We might have had a few banged up lips from hitting the back of a seat at a sudden stop but that’s about it. It takes more than good driving to have a safety record like that. It takes a lot of luck,” he maintained.
Rappahannock’s modern school buses now roll down paved highways and graded/ and graveled roads baek-urfo the hollows. But despite the improvements, the buses don’t roll as often in snow and ice as they did decades ago. "We had school then on much worse days than now,” Mutt Atkins concluded.
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