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ArticlesSeptember 8, 2011

NAPT Summit: great networking opportunities

Call me old-fashioned, but I still think the ideal is to talk face to face. The upcoming Annual Summit of the National Association for Pupil Transportation is one of the best ways to make connections and talk face to face with school bus industry peers.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 8, 2011

Seon’s new bus exterior camera can target stop-arm runners

The CA Wedge is aimed at providing clear bus-exterior video in all weather conditions. It supports lenses from 2.9 to 3.6 mm for wide-angle door-entry applications, and 16 to 25 mm lenses for identifying stop-arm violation vehicles.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 8, 2011

Survey: 54% of Mich. districts now contract out services

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy finds that for the first time, more than half of Michigan school districts now use private vendors to provide food, custodial or transportation services. Statewide, transportation contracting grew the fastest, rising 27 percent from last year.

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Articlesby Thomas McMahonSeptember 6, 2011

Getting to know my driver

Here we were, nearly a decade and a half after I last descended the steps of her bus, both in jobs that led us to this same pupil transportation conference.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 6, 2011

Student Transportation buys Calif. bus company, debuts on NASDAQ

The contractor acquires A and B Bus Co., which has provided student transportation services to the same Southern California region for nearly 40 years. And on Tuesday, Student Transportation Inc. CEO and Chairman Denis Gallagher rings the bell in NASDAQ's opening ceremony as the company enters the U.S. stock market.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 6, 2011

Stock Transportation raises money to fight hunger in Somalia

The school bus contractor raises $3,000 to aid those affected by drought and famine in Somalia. The fundraiser is ongoing, and the Canadian government will match what the company raises. All funds will go to the Canadian Red Cross to be distributed in Somalia.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 2, 2011

InterMotive hires national sales manager

Mark Barczak joins the company with nearly 20 years of OEM engineering and sales experience in the bus, ambulance and work truck markets. InterMotive designs and manufactures vehicle control systems for the school bus, work truck, fire, ambulance, police, transit and personal-use mobility markets.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 2, 2011

GreenRoad to offer web seminars on reducing fleet fuel use, idling

The series of seminars, which will be held later this month and in October and are geared toward executives, as well as operation and safety directors, will provide guidance on these topics by addressing driving performance.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 1, 2011

District sees route, driver benefits from cutting 30 bus stops

To offset its budget shortfall, Aurora (Neb.) Public Schools reduced its stops from 100 to 70, with drivers now making more group pickups as opposed to door-to-door stops. Transportation Director Gerad Olsen tells SBF that the department’s routes are more efficient and that the bus drivers are happier making fewer stops.

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Articlesby Thomas McMahonSeptember 1, 2011

Kevin Clifford Named Contractor of the Year

The president of Huntington Coach Corp. in New York has a passion for saving money for school districts and for increasing the role of contractors in pupil transportation.

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