School Bus Fleet Blog


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Join us in an open-ended conversation about children and school buses – and the people who bring them together from SBF's editorial team and guest authors.


Multiple Authors
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Join us in an open-ended conversation about children and school buses – and the people who bring them together from SBF's editorial team and guest authors.
Connecting with a group of school bus contractors from Massachusetts, catching up with my former school bus driver in Oregon and getting great feedback from readers in the South were just a few of the benefits I've experienced by attending industry events this year.
Read More →School transportation providers should not only review upfront costs associated with new bus acquisitions, infrastructure and fuel costs, but also true total cost of ownership, maintenance requirements and impact on the community.
Read More →In Atlanta, some older boys and girls have been separated on the school bus to improve behavior. District officials tell me that their drivers are given autonomy to decide how to seat their passengers. ...
Read More →I sat in the passenger seat of a large truck, eyes fixed on the stopped car ahead as we rumbled straight toward it. Next to me, the driver of the truck gave no indication that he was going to stop the vehicle.
Read More →There is substantial emphasis on making sure students know the rules for boarding and riding the bus, and rightly so, but what about for parents?
Read More →In the fatal 2014 truck-motorcoach collision in California, NTSB found that there were difficulties in evacuating from the flame-engulfed motorcoach. That and other details are similar to the 1988 Carrollton bus disaster.
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