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Newsby Staff and News ReportsJune 3, 2025

NHTSA Proposes Amendments to 5-Point Restraints on School Buses Rule

New exemptions are proposed to child restraint systems attachments, test dummies, and a delayed compliance date to December 2026.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMay 23, 2025

Canadian Investors Attempt to Relaunch LION

Lion Electric was on the brink of collapse after mass layoffs and a plant closure. But just when it looked like they wouldn't make it, new owners stepped in with a new approach — one focused on its Canadian customers.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMay 9, 2025

AMF Bruns Breaks Ground on New Ohio Facility

The special-needs equipment supplier is about to get a new home for its North American operations not far from its current HQ in the Buckeye State.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMay 9, 2025

S.C. District Launches New CDL Testing Site

Dorchester School District Four is now conducting the basic skills portion of the CDL test as a third-party examiner for the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles using its new skill pad.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsMay 2, 2025

Florida District Opens New Transportation and Operations Facility

The School District of Osceola County celebrates an increased ability to serve students as it opened a new Eastern facility to launch for the 2025-26 school year and broke ground on another on the West side for the following year.

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NY Illegal Passing Awareness Day Returns
Newsby Staff and News ReportsApril 18, 2025

N.Y. Association Plans Public Awareness Events for Operation Safe Stop Day

NYAPT is once again urging motorists to stop for school buses during a series of events across the state on April 24.

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Electric School Bus Roadmap
Newsby Staff and News ReportsApril 17, 2025

Massachusetts MAPC Releases Electric School Bus Roadmap

Attention Greater Boston municipalities and school districts: learn how to transition your school buses to electric with this roadmap that plots the key steps to take when planning the EV switch.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsApril 16, 2025

Remembering David Kramer

A longtime transportation director and state association lead in Iowa, David Kramer died on April 6, 2025. Here's how he is remembered.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsApril 11, 2025

Boy Killed by School Bus in New Orleans

Six-year-old charter school student Mason Richards was struck and killed while boarding his school bus in Louisiana on April 10.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsApril 10, 2025

Combatting Trafficking: TAT’s Harriet Tubman Award Nominations Open

Honor bus professionals who helped report human trafficking concerns to the Truckers Against Trafficking award. Nominations close at the end of July.

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