Wheels Of Love
Charlotte Magazine|October 2017

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools bus driver reflects on three decades of getting kids where they need to go

Virginia Brown
Wheels Of Love

ON A SCORCHING SATURDAY on the west side in June, Linda Reid wraps her hands around a Styrofoam cup of sweet tea, her silver-gray bun stacked neatly atop her head, bold cruciFix dangling on her blue blouse. This week, she’s been cranking up bus 1753 and carting kids to a summer reading program at Tuckaseegee Road Elementary. Now 60, and a couple of years away from retirement, Linda has driven a bus for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for nearly 30 years. “I remember that day like it was today,” she says of her

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