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Summit School Services recognized more than 5,500 drivers and monitors with safety awards after meeting accident- and injury-free performance standards over the past three years.
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First Student Charter Bus Rental provides transportation to VIPs, media and staff during Stage 7 of the 2011 Amgen Tour of California. Eighteen small buses shuttle more than 600 passengers to and from Mt. Baldy in the Angeles National Forest to view the race.
Read More →U.S. Rep. Tim Scott will deliver a keynote speech to school bus contractors at the NSTA Annual Meeting and Convention in Baltimore. Scott has spoken in support of privatization efforts in his state, South Carolina.
Read More →While cutting transportation for high school students is still in the proposed budget, the Michigan school system's board is presented with other solutions to achieve the $1.482 million in savings that would come from cutting the service. Options include enforcing an existing policy that requires a half-mile walk zone between bus stops.
Read More →The bus mirror manufacturer appoints Joe Leggett to cover the Midwest region. His responsibilities will include driving revenue, developing and training the distributor and dealer network, and supporting fleet requirements.
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School districts in Illinois would not receive the regular transportation payment for the FY 2011 fourth quarter, under a plan announced by the governor’s Office of Management and Budget. School officials are working to save the funding.
Read More →J.J. Keller & Associates' library of more than 100 videos, including several for school bus driver instruction, are available through Video on Demand offerings. There is a pay per view option, which lets users pay as they go, and a video subscription service, which provides unlimited online access to the company’s entire video library for a year.
Read More →A driver in Massachusetts spots a stowaway on her bus: a 15-pound red-tailed hawk. The bird has to be coaxed out by police and animal control officers.
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After the devastating tsunami hit Japan in March, the West Coast of the U.S. braced for impact. The director of transportation and a driver from a California district share details with SBF on their department's role in evacuating local residents before the surges hit.
Read More →About half of Trenton (N.J.) Public Schools’ drivers fail to report for work last Thursday after state fiscal monitor Marc Cowell overturns the district board’s vote to retain them and 150 other employees. Interim Superintendent of Schools Raymond Broach says they are working on “rectifying this situation.”
Read More →Several scholarships for school bus industry conferences and student field trips are available through the National Association for Pupil Transportation.
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