Jessika Rozki Puts Her Transportation Venture on the Road to Success
If Jessika Rozki has any regrets — and she doesn’t have many — the big one would be that she doesn’t get to drive much anymore.
She still fills on occasion if one of her regular drivers is out, but most all of her time is spent at her desk at the Agawam home of Rozki Rides.
There where she needs to be as she plans and executes a growth strategy for this venture she launched in 2019. But she says she would much rather be behind the wheel, with children in the seats behind her.
“It’s way more fun to drive than being in here — I love children’s transportation,” said Rozki, who spent 13 years as a school-bus driver in Chicopee and thus speaks from experience.
She eventually left that job because she could no longer bring her daughter along on her route, and spent some time as a stay-at-home mom thinking about what could, and should, come next.
The eventual answer to that question has become one of this region’s more intriguing stories of … well, let’s call it entrepreneurial drive. It’s become a model, if you will, for how someone can take an idea — and then take full advantage of the vast resources within the area’s entrepreneurial ecosystem — and transform it into a thriving business and employer.