OWNERSHIP HISTORY

SHARITZ BUS SERVICE, INC.

Family Owned & Operated

Sharitz Bus Service, Inc. was originally started in Bradford County, Canton, PA. After Ernest Sharitz returned from the Air Force, he and his wife, Sara moved to Canton where Ernie began sub-driving for a school bus contractor, Mr. Smith in 1973. The following year, Mr. Smith offered to sell his three buses to them. They negotiated a contract with Canton Area School District and Shartiz Bus Service, Inc. was formed.

Ernie and Sara were honored to have the opportunity to provide transportation for the following school districts and area programs: Canton, Northern Tioga, Athens, Selinsgrove, Lewisburg, Watsontown Christian Academy, Children's Discovery, and the Union/Snyder Transportation Alliance.

Sharitz Bus Service, Inc. is proud to have sponsored a first place School Bus Safety Poster Contest winner in PA; which also placed third in Nationals. In March 1993, Sharitz Bus Service, Inc. was named Employer of the Year for the Union-Snyder Area Agency in Aging, and in 1997, they were presented the Governor's Highway Safety Award. Sharitz Bus Service Inc. also received the 1999 Silver Bus Contractor Award from the Pennsylvania School Bus Association.

NAREHOOD TRANSPORTATION

HUNTERS VALLEY

Family Owned & Operated

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Family Owned & Operated

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In 1930, Guy Narehood started Super Service Garage. In 1938, Guy started into the bus business with one bus for Beaver Adams High School. In 1957, Guy passed away and Kenneth P. Narehood took over the business with 3 buses. In 1988, Super Service was awarded a bid at Midd-West School District and had to purchase 14 buses for $32,000 each.

Super Service Garage celebrated 50 years in business in 1988 and received the Golden Bus Contractor Award from the PA School Bus Association. Kenneth passed away in 2022 and Gary Narehood purchased the business. In 2008, Gary started Narehood Transportation LLC with 25 buses, 10 vans and 1 tour bus. The PA School Bus Association honored Narehood Transportation LLC in 2013 with the Platinum Bus Contractor Award for 75 years in the school bus industry. Gary sold Narehood Transporation LLC to Weikel Busing LLC in 2019.

Gary passed away on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at his home after a strong battle with cancer.

Hunters Valley, Inc. operated in the Greenwood School District and Midd-West School District for many years. In June of 2021, Hunters Valley, Inc. contacted the Midd-West Business Manager and Superintendent asking to be released from their contract, so they could focus more on Greenwood School District. The Midd-West School District contacted Weikel Busing, LLC to take over the routes. Weikel Busing, LLC contacted Spade Busing, the other contractor within the Midd-West School District and the Hunters Valley runs were split between the two contractors.

With splitting the runs Hunters Valley had with Spade Busing, Weikel Busing, LLC purchased 11 school buses and 9 vans in addition to the 16 routes already held at the district.

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WEIKEL BUSING, LLC

Family Owned & Operated

Lisa Weikel started driving school bus (#45) for Sharitz Bus Service, Inc in November 1997. In April of 1998 Lisa was hired as the Trainer/Safety Coordinator for Sharitz. As different people left, Lisa took on more responsibilities. In 2000, she also became responsible for maintenance oversight, continued to be the Trainer/Safety Coordinator, along with doing her daily school bus run. Lisa became the Office Manager in July of 2001 when the previous manager left, and did that job until March of 2017. Sometime in 2015, Ernie & Sara approached Lisa about buying the company. Together they approached the Selinsgrove School District about transferring the contract. Weikel Busing, LLC was formed in November of 2016, and officially took over the Selinsgrove School District Contract March 11, 2017, with 26 bus runs and 9 van runs.

ADAM TRANSPORTATION FAMILY HISTORY

Richard Powers Jr. started driving a school bus for Haverford Township Schools (Delaware County, PA) in 1962. He paired driving with his full time evening job as a projection and real operator at the movie theater, back before computers did the job. In 1974, his new son in law, Phil Adam joined the District and began driving run 12, as well as working in the shop as a mechanic. Then in 1976, Phil’s wife, Teri, joined the district as a full-time special needs bus driver. After Richard retired to a farm in Florida in the late 80’s, Phil and Teri moved to a small farm outside of Selinsgrove to start a family.

Phil stayed in the bus business commuting to Rohrer Bus in Duncannon to work. Around 1994, Phil started at a diesel shop in Selinsgrove; which had the service contract for Sharitz Bus Service. Teri continued to drive bus for summer church camps, while also working nights full time at a factory in Liverpool. Phil recruited their oldest son, PJ, to work at a young age as a bus cleaner for Sharitz Bus Service. PJ was later promoted to painting bumpers and rims. Despite having been driving buses on the lot for much of his life, PJ officially got his school bus license two weeks after turning 18 years old.

PJ drove a full time school bus route while attending Penn State University - Main Campus for State College School District, in conjunction with driving charter bus to help pay for college. After graduating, PJ took a position as the Transportation Manager for Rohrer Bus within the Juniata County School District at Mifflintown. This is where he met his wife, Alyssa, who at the time was the School District Athletic Director. With PJ’s new position, his mom, Teri began driving school bus again, taking on a special needs run to/from Pittsburgh twice a week.

In 2017, Lisa Weikel, the longtime office manager for Sharitz Bus Service, established Weikel Busing, LLC upon the retirement of Ernie and Sarah Sharitz. This is when Lisa asked PJ to come back “home” to be the Operations Manager. After expanding service to Midd-West School District, surviving COVID, as well as expanding Weikel Busing’s charter bus division, Weikel Busing had grown enough for PJ’s wife, Alyssa, to join the company full time.

In August of 2021, Alyssa and PJ, the third generation of the Adam Family in student transportation, established Adam Transportation, LLC. A short time later, Adam Transportation, LLC began leasing school buses to Weikel Busing with the long term anticipated plan of taking over Weikel Busing’s contracts once Lisa retires. With this, in Spring of 2023 the two families decided to work together on a proposal for Lewisburg Area School District under Adam Transportation, LLC to really start building upon the Adam Family busing transition. Since 2023 Adam Transportation has operated the bus and van fleet for Lewisburg Area, with the addition of Mifflinburg School District’s preschool programs in 2024.