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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 11, 2016

Leonard Bus Sales honored for 50 years of service

The Saratoga County (N.Y.) Board of Supervisors honored the company for the milestone, its leadership in the school bus industry and its economic contributions to the county.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 11, 2016

John Goss remembered for dedication to training

Goss, a former school transportation director and a longtime industry expert for Q’Straint, died on Jan. 3. Q’Straint will dedicate its training facility in his name.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 11, 2016

Teen struck while walking to school bus

The Massachusetts motorist didn’t see the boy walking down the road, the school bus or its flashing red lights because he had not scraped the frost and ice from his windshield. The boy is recovering from a concussion and minor injuries.

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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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