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Safetyby Kentin GearhartMarch 1, 1998

Best Practices for the Use of Child Restraint Systems

The growing population of infants, toddlers and preschoolers on school buses presents a wide range of challenges to the transportation provider. Many ...

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Managementby Dale MacDiarmid, Senior EditorMarch 1, 1998

School Buses Give Communities a Lift

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...

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Safetyby Steve Hirano, Executive EditorMarch 1, 1998

Preventing Tragedy at the Bus Stop

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...

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Special Needs Transportationby Robert J. Cross and Tamara M. CrossMarch 1, 1998

Extensive policy needed to handle DNR orders

Many parents with severely impaired children have acquired written orders that restrict others from trying to resuscitate their children if they shoul...

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Maintenanceby Chris Krahn and Kit NavarreMarch 1, 1998

Protect your technicians from toxic exhaust fumes

Carbon monoxide and diesel smoke are considered to be hazardous materials by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Carbon monoxide...

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Managementby StaffFebruary 1, 1998

News from around the industry

24% decline reported in loading/unloading fatalities Nineteen schoolchildren were killed in loading and unloading accidents during the 1996-...

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Managementby Steve Hirano, EditorFebruary 1, 1998

Is safety compromised by the driver shortage?

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...

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Managementby Dale MacDiarmid, Senior EditorFebruary 1, 1998

Mission: Search and Employ

Let me share something with you," says William Bast, transportation administrator for the DeKalb (Ga.) County Schools, describing one of his newest dr...

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Special Needs Transportationby Jim Ellis and Maureen Arnitz-DeLisioFebruary 1, 1998

How to Organize a Special-Needs Roadeo

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...

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Maintenanceby Steve Hirano, former editorFebruary 1, 1998

What You Need to Know about ABS for School Buses

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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