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In my experience, pupil transporters are compassionate, caring people who are dedicated to doing their jobs well. For many, this compassion and dedication extends to the communities they serve, as exemplified by the staff at Franklin, Mass.-based Vendetti Buses/Vendetti Motors. When a volunteer for the ...
Read More →Ride-alongs can be a great way for local officials and others to get a better understanding of school transportation systems. ...
Read More →I think it’s safe to say that most people have an experience while doing their job that’s especially memorable, or a time when they realized the effect they were having on other people’s lives as a result of their work. One experience that sticks out for me in my years working for SBF is when ...
Read More →It’s no secret that pupil transportation operations around the nation are contending with budget cuts due to the challenging economic climate. In the last few months, we’ve learned about a variety of efforts that school districts and transportation departments have implemented to alleviate the strain of this circumstance by cutting costs.
Read More →While our industry trains and prepares for the possibility of a security threat, we can also reflect on how fortunate we in the U.S. are to not be subjected to the perpetual hazards that people in some other areas of the world live with. This came to mind upon learning of a school bus in Israel being struck by an anti-tank missile on Thursday.
Read More →We here at SBF visit pupil transportation facilities around Southern California throughout the year to chat with the staff and learn about the operation. Here, I’d like to share with you some of the things I learned during a visit to Orange Unified School District.
Read More →Over the past year, there has been a surge of pupil transportation stalwarts stepping down from their longtime posts, many of them state directors. Some are leaving the workforce altogether (at least for the time being), while others ...
Read More →In SBF's 2011 Special-Needs Survey, respondents report that 30 percent of their special-needs students are mainstreamed (i.e., ride regular-ed routes). I have a disability and in my opinion, when you have a disability, it boosts your self-esteem to be treated as “normally” as possible. It seems, then ...
Read More →SCHOOL BUS FLEET’s February 2011 issue features our annual Special-Needs Survey. This year, there was some information that we couldn’t fit in the survey for the print issue, so I’ll share it with you here.
Read More →The state is helping schools offset the cost of field trips to the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum with a new license plate. A portion of the fee for the plate goes to the museum for its Big Yellow School Bus Fund, a program developed to offer “bus scholarships” to help fund field trips to the museum.
Read More →It is by turns amusing and unsettling how much a small typo can alter the meaning of something. For example, maybe you’ve seen someone list his title as “assistant manger,” which would make him a trough for horses and cattle to eat from. ...
Read More →Every December, we hear about school bus operations pitching in to help their communities celebrate the holidays and to provide for those in need. The ubiquity of news like this speaks to the generosity and good will of the people in the pupil transportation industry. Here’s a great example.
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