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Great Fleets Across America, Part V
(South Dakota-Wyoming)

October 1, 2003

Expansion adds to challenge

SOUTH DAKOTA
Brandon Valley School District 49-2, Brandon

FLEET FACTS
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Great Fleets Across America, Part IV
(New Mexico-South Carolina)

October 1, 2003

Maintaining the family fleet

NEW MEXICO
Mountain Bus Co., Sandia Park

FLEET FACTS
Buses: 25
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Great Fleets Across America, Part III
(Massachusetts-New Jersey)

October 1, 2003

Words to live and work by

MASSACHUSETTS
Laidlaw, Dudley-Charlton-Oxford

FLEET FACTS
Buses: 74
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Great Fleets Across America, Part II
(Hawaii-Maryland)

October 1, 2003

Keeping it in the family

HAWAII
Akina Bus Service, Ltd., Kihei

FLEET FACTS
Buses: 16
Student...

Memo calls for better relations between schools, bus operators

October 1, 2003

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The importance of involving school bus operators in transportation planning for disabled children was bolstered in an Aug. 22 memor...

All great things must end

October 1, 2003

In our October/November 1999 issue we introduced a special report called "Great Fleets Across America" to recognize school bus fleets doing an excelle...

Great Fleets Across America, Part I
(Alabama-Georgia)

October 1, 2003

Even after five editions, our latest group of 50 Great Fleets still represents the very best of what student transportation has to offer — innovative ...

Oversized carry-ons create lurking danger on buses

October 1, 2003

Not unlike many other states, Tennessee pupil transportation practices concerning items that can be transported on a school bus are on a slippery slop...

Where there's fire, there's smoke

October 1, 2003

Did you read the headline closely? If so, you should have noticed that it’s "reversed." The proper cliché, if there is such a thing, is "Where there's...

Stranded child incident leads to terminations

October 1, 2003

LINCOLN, Neb. — A school bus driver and a teaching assistant have been fired after a sleeping 4-year-old preschooler was left alone on a parked Linco...

Quick-thinking driver helps save choking student

September 26, 2003

RENTON, Wash. — The actions of a Renton School District bus driver helped save a first-grade student who swallowed a marble and started choking durin...

12-year-old charged in bus stabbing

September 26, 2003

BOSTON — A 12-year-old Boston Public Schools student was charged Wednesday with stabbing another student twice in the chest during a fight on a s...

Otto Nuss sentenced to prison for kidnapping

September 23, 2003

PHILADELPHIA — School bus driver Otto Nuss, who last year armed himself and took a busload of 13 children on a wild six-hour trip to suburban Washing...

Attempted abductions spawn community response

September 19, 2003

WICHITA, Kan. — A widespread manhunt and an awareness effort have begun in response to a series of recent incidents in which suspicious men have ...

Parents of boy bullied on bus sue school district

September 19, 2003

EUGENE, Ore. — The family of a boy who was bullied on a school bus filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Eugene School District.

Acco...

Flash flooding traps school buses, employees

September 16, 2003

WILMINGTON, Del. — Employees at a First Student bus garage were evacuated by rescue boat after flash flooding Monday morning, according to the

Parents protest for school buses

September 12, 2003