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Wes Platt
Former Executive Editor
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Former Executive Editor
[Archives] 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.
As President-Elect Obama sent his daughters off for their first day of school in Washington, I couldn’t help but wonder how they traveled. I didn’t really expect the soon-to-be first daughters to climb aboard a yellow school bus, Secret Service agents in tow. But ...
Read More →Last week, the SBF staff received several photos from a transportation director in Fresno County, Calif., who said that they capture the area’s first snowfall of the school year. I have long associated snow with the holidays, so the photos were a reminder that the holiday season is in full swing.
Read More →As we work on our January 2009 issue, where we will highlight 10 Green Fleets Across America, I’ve been thinking about all the ways school transportation departments and bus companies can reduce, reuse and recycle.
Read More →If you look back over the record of school bus loading/unloading fatalities, which has been compiled annually for nearly four decades, you may be alarmed. In 1970-71, the first school year reported, 75 children in the U.S. were killed by their own school bus or a passing vehicle. ...
Read More →Washington Court House (Ohio) City Schools bus driver Jason Leeth has worked for the district for 12 years. He has been collecting school bus memorabilia for nearly twice that many years.
Read More →There were plenty of interesting sites to be seen over the past week in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where NAPT and NASDPTS held their annual conferences. You probably saw our Daily Report newsletters, which covered the speakers, workshops, trade show and other activities. Here are some more photos that I took in the conferences as well as on the streets (and a pier) of Myrtle Beach.
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