As we near the end of 2002, SBF recaps 10 major news events (in no particular order) that affected the pupil transportation industry this year. Multip...

High-profile issues such as school bus occupant protection, school travel research and diesel emissions programs were hot topics at the 2002 conferenc...

Although the National Association for Pupil Transportation’s (NAPT) 28th Annual Conference and Trade Show convened once again with a focus on several ...

Concerns are rising about how to reduce the dangers of sleepy drivers. People who suffer from sleep apnea, a condition in which the sufferer wakes up ...

For the late Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis, the location of the school bus stop on Beavercreek Road in Oregon City, Ore., horrifically demonstrates w...

Let's not kid ourselves. Every now and then we do incredibly stupid things behind the wheel of our personal vehicles. On more than one occasion, I've ...

A recent article in the New York Times affirmed what we have known for years: Many teenagers won't ride a school bus because it's "uncool." Those teen...

The issues of occupant protection on school buses and school transportation funding have been brought into focus recently by reports issued by the Nat...

Colorado mother launches bumper sticker campaign

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — With thousands of students at Mesa County Valley Sc...

NASDPTS endorses lap/shoulder belts

McLEAN, Va. — The National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Servic...

Beginning Jan. 1, motorcoach drivers who transport K-12 students in Illinois on school-sponsored trips will be required to have a school bus permit, m...

Fairfax County reflects on 9/11

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Most Virginia transportation operations were not directly affected by the events...

As long as there are children to transport to and from school, there will be parents of those children to keep satisfied. Can't have one without the o...

Every fall, school bus operators concern themselves with securing necessary equipment to "winterize" their buses. What equipment they specify depends ...

In the ongoing quest to make school buses safer, the past 10 years have brought a focus on making buses more visible at night, in early morning hours,...

Stop-arm runners plague school bus drivers nationwide. One driver from Ohio explains it this way: "It seems to be the same story every day. At least o...