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Wes Platt
Former Executive Editor
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Former Executive Editor
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If you visit Lane Southern Orchards in Georgia, you may recognize the new tour vehicle: It’s a custom-built replica of the famed Blue Bird No. 1 school bus. Like Blue Bird, Lane Southern Orchards is located in Fort Valley. The school bus OEM, which built its first bus more than 80 years ago ...
Read More →In an effort to prevent loading and unloading zone fatalities, Terri Wright has launched J.A.C.O.B., or “Just Another Child On the Bus.” The Website, named after her son Jacob, who was run over by his school bus in 2004, provides information about the danger zone around a school bus and offers bus driver and student training tips.
Read More →Jonny Cohen of Highland Park, Ill., began developing GreenShields two years ago with the help of his sister and her friends. GreenShields is a Plexiglas shield designed to be retrofitted on school buses to make them more aerodynamic and, in turn, reduce their emissions.
Read More →Although SBF editors spend most of their time behind a desk, it’s also part of our job to visit school bus operations on a regular basis and get the “boots-on-the-ground” view of the pupil transportation industry.
Read More →Buster the School Bus has taught important safety lessons to countless schoolchildren across the nation. But Robbie Ward, an autistic second-grader from North Carolina, was particularly inspired: After seeing the remote-controlled robot in a school assembly, Robbie created a model of Buster out of Legos.
Read More →Students in the Midwest and Southeast are getting a firsthand look at the vital role education plays in their lives and how their actions, particularly in high school, can significantly impact the rest of their lives through a specially designed school bus dubbed “The Choice Bus.”
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