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Safetyby StaffMarch 1, 2002

Pollution report card: Officials respond to failing grades

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - No U.S. state received a grade of “A” and 21 states did poorly or flunked out on a national report card rating the leve...

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Managementby Steve Hirano, Editor/Associate PublisherMarch 1, 2002

How to react to the mystery of Otto Nuss

We may never know why 63-year-old Otto Nuss decided to hijack his own school bus, with 13 youngsters aboard, and light out for Washington, D.C., on an...

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Managementby Todd FullerMarch 1, 2002

Let's take the bite out of labor negotiations

Last year I found myself involved in negotiations between various groups of educators, administrators and board members for a school district in Misso...

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Maintenanceby ry and photos by Paul HartleyMarch 1, 2002

New Motor Oil Category Makes Debut This Fall

Motor oil isn’t usually a topic that school bus fleet operators spend much time discussing. But that might change soon, after new-and-improved l...

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Managementby Steve Hirano, EditorMarch 1, 2002

Tight Budgets Force Fleets to Look at Bus Purchase Options

Cary Hartwig had a problem. The transportation supervisor at Northwood-Kensett Community Schools in Northwood, Iowa, needed to replace two buses in hi...

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Special Needs Transportationby Cheryl WolfMarch 1, 2002

Tranporting Medically Fragile or Technology-Assisted Students

Ray Turner, Ed.D., provided the pupil transportation community a valuable resource when he wrote “Transporting Medically Fragile or Technology-A...

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Alternative Fuelsby Frank Di Giacomo, PublisherMarch 1, 2002

Safe passage includes curbing unseen dangers

For the second year in a row, the school bus industry has been put on the defensive by nationally publicized research suggesting that school buses spe...

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Safetyby StaffFebruary 1, 2002

News from the World of Pupil Transportation

Final report issued on Tennga bus-train crash WASHINGTON, D.C.— The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the sc...

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Safetyby StaffFebruary 1, 2002

A Guide to Safe Oxygen Transport on School Buses

The Maryland State Department of Education has introduced new guidelines for safely transporting oxygen on school buses, ensuring secure storage and proper handling of oxygen equipment for students in need.

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Managementby StaffFebruary 1, 2002

Onboard Video Assists in Training

The San Marcos (Calif.) Unified School District has equipped three school vans with audio/video recording systems that register bus movement. The Driv...

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