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Determining if Electric Buses Are Right for Your District
Thinking about adding electric buses to your district? Here’s what you need to consider first.
Thinking about adding electric buses to your district? Here’s what you need to consider first.
Electric school buses are sustainable, efficient and, well, somewhat expensive. To help ease the financial burden of going electric, the government is opening phase one of the Clean School Bus Program, the Rebate Program.
Respondents to HopSkipDrive’s 2022 State of School Transportation survey included directors of transportation, bus drivers, district superintendents, school principals and more. They shared many things about the successes — and challenges — schools and districts are facing as they work hard every day to safely get all students to and from school.
The North Carolina company cites increased demand and a need to prepare for ramped-up electric school bus production.
Company officials say supply chain disruptions, which they've also given as a cause for recent price increases, motivated the reduction of the workforce in Fort Valley.
The company blames inflationary pressures and raw material costs, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war with Ukraine, for the latest price hike.
Founded in 1997, STA now operates more than 16,000 vehicles, providing student transportation, management, logistics, and technology solutions to more than 300 school districts across the United States.
The transportation provider has a 10-year partnership with a school district in Wasilla, Alaska, starting in July.
Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent news headlines from the pupil transportation industry - this week including competition between First Student and Zum in Seattle, as well as Blue Bird's move into commercial delivery vehicles.
Founded in 2014, the company now operates in 20 markets across 10 states and in Washington, D.C.
Seattle Public Schools is prepared to award First Student with a continued contract in Washington, but alternative provider Zum has lodged a protest about the bidding process.
Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent news headlines from the pupil transportation industry - this week including a New Mexico legislator's repeated call for seat belts on school buses.
Among the results, a 164% increase in revenue, and nearly $35 million spent toward the new Joliet (Illinois) electric school bus facility.
The KP2 is a compact road-facing camera with a snap-on driver-facing camera option that lets commercial fleets add driver-facing video at any time.
TTC, founded in 1979, provides transportation to more than 100,000 students in the metropolitan New York City area.
A briefing report from New York Appleseed makes a few recommendations for improving transportation equity among public school students in New York City's boroughs.
Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent news headlines from the pupil transportation industry - including word that the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services is resuming its annual illegal-passing survey across the country.
Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent news headlines from the pupil transportation industry - including U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona's visit with school bus workers in Maine.
Student transportation leaders in North Carolina's Wake County distributed Bojangle's biscuits and goody bags to school bus drivers at East Cary Middle School in celebration of Love the Bus month.
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