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Thomas McMahon

Executive Editor

Thomas had covered the pupil transportation industry with School Bus Fleet since 2002. When he's not writing articles about yellow buses, he enjoys running long distances and making a joyful noise with his guitar.

Newsby Thomas McMahonDecember 19, 2014

Pennsylvania district launches 23 CNG buses

Rose Tree Media School District hits the road with 15 new buses and eight retrofitted buses running on compressed natural gas. Superintendent James Wigo discusses the district's efforts to convert its fleet.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonDecember 12, 2014

School bus veteran, alt-fuel advocate Jerry Rineer to retire

Rineer, who has more than 40 years of experience in school transportation, has become a “go-to guy” for colleagues across the country who are interested in alternative fuels.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonDecember 11, 2014

Kansas School Bus Safety Unit veteran to retire

Debbie Romine, who has been a fixture in pupil transportation safety training and other programs in Kansas for 26 years, will retire on Dec. 19.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonDecember 11, 2014

School bus sales up 4% in 2014

Total school bus sales rose to 37,663 units. Sales in the North American market have increased for the past three years in a row.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonDecember 9, 2014

Festive school bus wins award in Christmas parade

Humble (Texas) Independent School District adorned a bus with Christmas lights, reindeer antlers and other decorations for a local parade, and the team took home a top honor.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonDecember 3, 2014

Task force backs stop-arm cameras on North Carolina buses

The state attorney general wants to equip all public school buses in North Carolina with cameras to catch stop-arm violators, and his goal is gaining support.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonDecember 2, 2014

TSA re-launches First Observer security training

The training initiative to enhance security across highway surface transportation modes, including school buses, has been “re-tooled” and is back online.

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School Bus Fleet Blogby Thomas McMahonNovember 24, 2014

School bus snow globe makes surprise return at NAPT

Kim Hamilton went to the NAPT Summit on a mission to bring back valuable information and training opportunities for the members of the Oklahoma Association for Pupil Transportation, of which she is executive director. But she had one other task to attend to: bringing me a snow globe that I had won at the conference two years ago.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonNovember 24, 2014

1 injured as school bus slides off road, rolls twice

Oregon police say that the driver lost control of the small bus, and it went off an embankment. The bus was carrying six ski team members, one of whom was injured.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonNovember 20, 2014

Carrollton crash survivor is now a school bus driver

As an eighth grader, Quinton Higgins escaped from the fiery Carrollton, Kentucky, bus crash that killed 27 people. More than 20 years later, he took a surprising career turn: He became a school bus driver.

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