Volunteer Drivers & Dispatchers

This group of caring individuals have volunteered to make appointments and drive our clients in need of transportation to their medical appointments and other services. To ensure clients have the utmost confidence in the service we provide; all driver volunteers are screened for a good driving record and a police information check.

To see what our clients have to say about our services click HERE.

Drivers will have completed a 4 hour classroom driver training session plus an in-car orientation in our electric car the Chevy Bolt and a coaching session. These sessions are conducted by our Safety Director who has over 40 years of professional traffic safety and driver training experience. The upside of this training is volunteer drivers will have better driving skills, they will be safer drivers, and they will understand how to reduce fuel consumption in their own vehicles.

Additional Drivers Needed

Now that the community is becoming aware of our service we now have 2-3 bookings most days. We now have an additional vehicle, a brand new Tesla Y, so we need more volunteer drivers.

If you are available during the week and interested in driving please call our Safety Director, Bryan Lowes at 778-389-4636 or email bryanlowes@shaw.ca for more information.

Our next driver training session will be on Nov 7th 2024 from 9 am till 1:00 pm at Blind Bay Hall.

Board of Directors

The Board of the South Shuswap Transportation Society is a group of community minded individuals who recognized a need for a transportation service as the bus service in the area is not convenient and there is no taxi or ride hailing service.

The members of the board have diverse backgrounds but the common denominator is they all want to help people in the community who rely on this service get where they need to go. In addition to their board responsibilities many of them are volunteer drivers.

We are always looking for community minded people to serve on our board. If you are interested in helping please email our President, Paul Demenok at: pdemenok@gmail.com for more information.

Our Partners

Thanks to the generosity of the following organizations, the Board was able to secure funding from the CSRD,  SASCU, and the Shuswap Community Foundation. These funds enabled them to purchase our first electric car, the Chevrolet Bolt and the charging station was installed at Tirecraft in Sorrento.  For more information about each of our sponsors and details of their contributions click on the button below.

Board members and volunteer drivers at the launch of our second electric vehicle
the Tesla Y at Tirecraft on Jan 26, 2024