FRISCO, Texas — Jennifer Fugate arrived at the Transporting Students with Disabilities (TSD) and Special Needs National Conference ahead of the annual roadeo competition and asked out loud, “Hey, are you Pinkie?”
Pinkie Roland responded, “Yes, are you Jennifer?”
Fugate, a school bus driver for Mansfield ISD located about an hour south of the conference hotel Embassy Suites Dallas-Frisco, signed up for the roadeo event but didn’t have a teammate. Neither did Roland. The event, organized by the industry group Women in Transportation., or Wit., usually attracts set teams of bus drivers and attendants but allows individuals to register and later be teamed with another lone participant…