YAEGER BUS SERVICE INC

Name

YAEGER BUS SERVICE INC

Legal name

Yaeger Bus Service, Inc.

Website

https://yaegerbus.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1954

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

School Bus Transportation

NAICS

School and Employee Bus Transportation (48541), Charter Bus Industry (48551)

SIC

Local & Suburban Transit & Interurban Hwy Passenger Trans (4100)

akta.pro primary industry

School & Student Public Transit Bus Operators (THAIAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

School & Youth Group Charters (Non-Route) (THAIAIAD)

Keywords

• School bus transportation
• Student transportation services
• School district contracting
• Field trip transportation
• Athletic event shuttles

Headquarters

HQ city

Mankato

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Student Transportation Services: Contracted transportation services for school districts, providing daily student transport to and from school, field trips, and school athletic events. Revenue derived from service contracts with educational institutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Yaeger Bus Service, Inc. is a third-generation family-owned school bus transportation company that operates a fleet of school buses to transport students of the Mankato School District. Core services include daily to-and-from-school routes, field trip transportation, and transportation for school athletic events; private charters and community event shuttle services are also offered as ancillary lines. The company has held an exclusive transportation relationship with the Mankato School District since its founding in September 1954.

Product overview

Yaeger Bus Service is a third-generation family-owned transportation company that operates as a single core service offering: school bus transportation. Founded in September 1954, the company provides dedicated transportation services for the Mankato School District, including daily student transport to and from school, field trip coordination, and school athletic event transportation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• School Bus Transportation Services Contracted school bus transportation for the Mankato School District, providing daily to-and-from-school routes, field trip transportation, and school athletic event transportation for K-12 students in the Mankato, Minnesota area.
• Private Charter Services

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Regional players

• Petermann Bus: Family-rooted school bus operator serving districts across Ohio and neighboring states. Comparable as a regional, multi-district school bus contractor with similar fleet-based operating model.
• Cook-Illinois Corporation: Long-standing family-owned school bus operator serving Chicago-area districts. Comparable in being a multi-generation, privately held school bus contractor with a strong regional incumbency model.
• Illinois Central School Bus: Regional school and student transportation provider in the Midwest. Comparable contracted-district model and fleet-based student transport service to Yaeger, scaled across multiple districts.

Broad incumbents

• Durham School Services: Major contracted school bus operator across the U.S. and Canada. Overlaps with Yaeger in the contracted-district student transportation category but operates nationally with a much larger fleet.
• Student Transportation of America: Large North American provider of student and passenger transportation services. Direct overlap in the K-12 contracted school bus category, scaled across many districts and states.
• National Express: UK-listed operator with a substantial North American school bus business. Same end-customer (school districts) and core service (contracted student transportation) as Yaeger, but at multi-state scale.
• First Student: Largest North American school bus operator, providing contracted student transportation to hundreds of school districts. Comparable as the dominant incumbent in the same end-market, though operating at vastly greater scale.

Others

• Safeway Driving School Bus Services: Midwest-based student transportation services provider. Overlaps in contracted school transportation but serves a broader set of pupil transport use cases; included as a regional adjacency rather than direct competitor.

Direct peers

• Kohl's Bus Service: Family-owned school bus contractor serving multiple districts in Wisconsin. Closely comparable to Yaeger in size, ownership structure, and contracted-district operating model.
• Schmitty & Sons Transportation: Family-owned Minnesota-based school bus and student transportation operator. Direct comparable in geography, family ownership, and contracted-district student transport service.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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