First Student knows that a student's first assignment is to get to school safely and on time. Together, First Student and sister company FirstCanada transport about six million students to and from their classrooms every day via a fleet of some 54,000 buses. As North America's #1 school bus business, it provides student transportation services in 38 states in the US and 9 provinces in Canada. In addition to transportation, the company offers a slew of ancillary services, including preventative maintenance, fuel (its storage and purchase), route optimization, used bus sales, and more. First Student is a subsidiary of FirstGroup America, which is a unit of UK bus and train operator FirstGroup.