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Our team of enterprising editors bring years of experience covering the fleet industry. We offer a deep understanding of trends and the ever-evolving landscapes we cover in fleet, trucking, and transportation.  

Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2016

Texas district launches stop-arm camera program

Austin Independent School District partners with American Traffic Solutions to install stop-arm cameras on its school buses. For the first 30 days, the district’s police department will issue warnings to motorists who illegally pass a school bus.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 8, 2016

Kentucky school bus involved in fatal collision

A motorist crossed the center line of the highway and struck a school bus head-on. The motorist was pronounced dead at the scene and the bus driver, student and teacher’s aide aboard the bus were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 7, 2016

Washington district installs GPS on school buses

Kent School District, a recipient of the annual Don Carnahan Memorial Grant, will use the $50,000 to install Zonar GPS tracking devices on all of its buses.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 7, 2016

First Student names 1st student art contest winner

For its new student artwork contest, the school transportation provider will award a total of $12,000 this year to schools with winning entries.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 6, 2016

School bus driver awarded for literacy program

Don Sanders of Maine brought children’s books on his bus to get children to read more, and the effort grew into the Bus Book Bags program, with school district and library partnerships. He was recognized by a children’s nonprofit for the program.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 6, 2016

School bus collides with truck, crashes into home

A Texas school bus driver disobeyed a stop sign, collided with a truck, and then slammed into a house, police said. The students aboard and the two women in the home were not seriously harmed, but the driver of the truck was taken to the hospital.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 5, 2016

Pedestrian fatally struck by school bus mirror

Steven C. Coons of Arkansas was walking “partially in the lane” of the highway the school bus was traveling on when the mirror on the bus hit him. No students were on board the bus at the time.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 5, 2016

School bus driver who crashed into pond enters not guilty plea

An attorney for Lenoir Sainfimin, the Florida driver whose bus careened into a pond in September, pleaded not guilty on the driver’s behalf to a charge of careless driving. The attorney also asked to subpoena unedited surveillance video from the bus.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 4, 2016

Cummins engines certified for next round of EPA regs

The supplier’s engine lineup meets the current EPA regulations and the second step in greenhouse gas and fuel-efficiency standards, which take effect in 2017.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 4, 2016

New rooftop a/c unit offered for school buses

American Cooling Technology expands its bus rooftop air-conditioning product line with the launch of the new RTS-275.

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