Golden Sun Bus Service, Inc. has been in business since 1959. We are located at 2043 Co. Rt. 8 Oswego, New York. Our current fleet consists of approximately 70 vehicles. We employ approximately 85 people, the majority of whom live in the Fulton and Oswego area. We have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship with the Fulton School District since 1966. We serve approximately 3,400 students per day with transportation to and from the six perspective schools in the Fulton City School District. We are also contracted with the Fulton School District to transport students to and from field trips (zoo, apple orchards, M.O.S.T, Beaver Lake, Syracuse Civic Center, etc.) and sports trips (basketball, baseball, bowling, football, tennis, etc.). After school programs such as STEAM, J-Rock, the Yearbook club, and others are also part of our daily transportation responsibilities. In the 2018-2019 school year we started transporting for the UPK (Universal Pre-K) program, in which we transport four- year-old children to the various elementary schools. We have a dedicated and well-trained diesel mechanic team on staff that is led by our Operations Manager. Our mechanics service, maintain, and repair our own school bus equipment, as well as the Fulton School District buses. We have an excellent safety maintenance record. Our buses are regularly inspected by New York State Inspectors. Our Safety, Compliance, and Training staff is well qualified and they are continuously pursuing additional education in order to keep up with the latest safety laws and regulations. We currently have two SBDIs (School Bus Driver Instructor) on staff and 2 NYS 19A employees on staff who ensure that all of our drivers are well trained and in compliance with NYS law and federal law. Please see our Safety and Compliance tab for more information. Our office staff consists of four full-time employees with over 73 years of combined service. They are all dedicated to our company and are ready and willing to help with any situation that may arise.
Our History
In 1959 there was a DBA (doing business as) certificate filed in the Oswego County Clerk’s office as Golden Sun Bus Service. The listed owner of the business was Leon Laws. At the time, Mr. Laws owned a golden palomino horse by the name of Sunny. This resulted in the name Golden Sun. Sunny was a show horse and Mr. Laws frequented many of the local fairs and competed in several competitions. As a result, he won many accolades and ribbons for the horse’s performance.
On July 6, 1966 Waldo Haskell, Sr. and his wife, Mabel, originally from Fayetteville, NY, purchased Golden Sun from Leon Laws. At that time Golden Sun had contracts with both the Fulton and Oswego School Districts. In 1979, the Oswego contract ended, but the Fulton contract remained. However, the Fulton School District transportation was shared between Golden Sun and Gibson Transportation which was owned by Mrs. Ruth Gibson of Volney. Eventually, due to the ill health of Mrs. Gibson, all of the Fulton School District bus routes were turned over to Golden Sun.
In 1980 Waldo Haskell, Sr. passed away and the business was then turned over to Waldo Haskell Jr. who ran the business with his mother, Mabel. Mabel passed away in 2011 at the age of 94. Mr. Haskell, Jr. then ran the business until his untimely death in 2014. Ownership of Golden Sun was then passed to Wally’s two daughters Pamela and Kimberley along with his son-in-law, Patrick Kinane.
Currently, Mr. Kinane is the President of Golden Sun Bus Service, Inc. The Haskell family is proud to have been able to keep Golden Sun running as a family business for over 52 years.