As a 6-year-old, Jonquez Moore remembers watching his grandfather paint school buses for the local district in Louisiana. He couldn’t shake the allure of that big yellow bus, and found himself embedded in school systems not all that long after.

At first, he worked as a middle school English teacher, basketball and track coach, and then began driving the bus for extra income. After moving to Kerrville in 2017, he was mentored by a transportation director there, who introduced him to the state transportation association, TAPT. That’s when he realized he wanted to make it his full-time career, and went on to work as a transportation director across several districts in Texas.

Moore holds multiple professional certifications, including SMITH System Instructor, Behavior Intervention Instructor, Certified Commercial Examiner, and TEEX Certified School Bus Driver Instructor. He also recently completed Thomas Built Buses’ Transportation Operations Academy and presented at Zonar’s user conference.

Moore is one of School Bus Fleet’s 2026 Trailblazer award winners! Read his full story here.