A young bus driver, Scott Colton, begins to drive a bus one night as sleet rains from the sky. The five passengers — a young girl, a matronly old woman, a salesman, a pompous teacher, and an anxious-looking man — all talk about the dangers of the road, though some believe in the driving ability of the bus driver. The passengers also talk about where they are going and Colton thinks that all of their reasons are not worth the danger that the roads pose. He thinks about how he could have not shown up to work that night, but he would’ve been fired. His company doesn’t care about him, they only care about their reputation and keeping on schedule. As they get to a gravel road, suddenly the bus spins out and it hits a post on the right side of the road. Colton gets out and sees that they were very close to going over a bank into a river and that a flat tire saved them from skidding completely off the road. He tries to change the tire, but can’t because of a pothole in the road and so he tries to get the bus up the incline that they are on, but can’t manage it alone. He asks the men to help him push the bus and that they are to stay on the left side in case the bus slides to the right and into the river. Colton knows that if the bus begins to slide he will fall into the river with it and he imagines the reactions of his passengers afterwards. They try unsuccessfully at first and then the matronly woman puts her weight behind it and they manage to get the bus moving and up the hill. As they get to the top of the hill the anxious-looking man helps Colton change the tire and Colton feels like his job is without purpose. He imagines that if he was driving soldiers or doctors he might feel like he was doing something good, but he feels angry that he is driving a mismatch of ordinary people. They fix the tire and continue driving the bus until they get to a hotel where the salesman gets off for dinner, the teacher gets off to give a speech, and the matronly woman gets off to get a taxi to go to her sister’s funeral. They then drive to the university where the young girl gets off to meet her boyfriend so that she can go to a school dance with him. Seeing the two of them, Colton is reminded of his girl Gwen. The anxious-looking man asks if Colton can drive him home to his sick wife and Colton agrees because he helped him change the tire. As they approach the house the anxious man is overjoyed at the sight of the house with its lights on because that means his wife is okay. As the anxious man gets off Colton suddenly feels pride in his job knowing that he gets people to where they need to be.