Exhibit 24.1

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned officers and
directors of Laidlaw International, Inc., a Delaware corporation, hereby
constitutes and appoints Kevin E. Benson and Jeffrey W. Sanders, and each of
them, as his or her true and lawful attorney or attorneys-in-fact, with full
power of substitution and revocation, for each of the undersigned and in the
name, place and stead of each of the undersigned, to sign on behalf of each of
the undersigned an Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August
31, 2006 pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and to
sign any and all amendments to such Annual Report, and to file the same, with
all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do so and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and
about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney or attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitute or substitutes
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

     This power of attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original with respect to the person executing it.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of the
26th day of October, 2006.


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Kevin E. Benson, President, Chief       Richard R. Randazzo, Director
Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)


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Jeffrey W. Sanders, Vice President      Maria A. Sastre, Director
and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)


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John F. Chlebowski, Director            Peter E. Stangl, Director


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James H. Dickerson, Jr., Director       Carroll R. Wetzel, Jr.


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Lawrence M. Nagin, Director


by
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   Jeffrey W. Sanders, As
   Attorney-in-Fact