The growing population of infants, toddlers and preschoolers on school buses presents a wide range of challenges to the transportation provider. Many ...
Read More →The ideal: A half-empty school bus pulls up. Waiting with a dozen schoolchildren are three women headed to their GED class, a first step toward gettin...
Read More →Connie Chavis assumed her 5-year-old daughter, Brittany, would be safe at her school bus stop. After all, through the window of her mobile home, lo...
Read More →Many parents with severely impaired children have acquired written orders that restrict others from trying to resuscitate their children if they shoul...
Read More →Carbon monoxide and diesel smoke are considered to be hazardous materials by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Carbon monoxide...
Read More →24% decline reported in loading/unloading fatalities Nineteen schoolchildren were killed in loading and unloading accidents during the 1996-...
Read More →The mounting shortage of school bus drivers is like a distant siren gaining in volume and arousal, signaling the imminent arrival of an emergency. Ste...
Read More →Let me share something with you," says William Bast, transportation administrator for the DeKalb (Ga.) County Schools, describing one of his newest dr...
Read More →We think we've hit upon a great way to improve special-needs training and have a little fun in the process. Modeled after traditional school bus roade...
Read More →The antilock brake system (ABS) mandate has arrived. School buses (with a GVWR of more than 10,000 pounds) equipped with air brake systems manufactured after March 1 will be required to have ABS.
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