Tommy Transit is one such man. And while his job as a city bus driver may have been ordinary, he turned it into extraordinary. Tom Tompkins, aka Tommy Transit, now says that he is a bus driver on a mission.

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As a city bus driver, Tom noticed how disconnected and isolated people seemed to be and thought there might be something he could do.

 

That’s when he remembered one of his mentors saying, “All anyone wants is to be acknowledged for who they are and the contribution they make”.  

 

A light bulb went off.  He realized that as a driver he was in a unique position to affect the more than 150,000 people he picks up on his busy city bus route every year.  That’s a lot of people!

 

What makes Tom unusual is that he took his “ordinary joe job” as a bus driver and turned it into an incredible opportunity for positive exchange and has along the way  literally changed lives.

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Tom’s friendly, encouraging interactions have become the stuff of legend as he acquired the moniker around town and in the media as ‘Tommy Transit’, bus driver on a mission.