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Newsby Thomas McMahonJanuary 2, 2013

South Carolina updates aging fleet with 342 new buses

The state, which owns its school bus fleet, makes its first purchase of new school buses since 2008. They will replace models as old as 1984. State Superintendent Mick Zais calls the move “the first step in modernizing the nation’s oldest school bus fleet.”

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Newsby StaffNovember 27, 2012

District official attributes bus driver shortage to student behavior

The transportation director for Colleton (S.C.) County School District blames the shortage, in part, on children’s conduct on the bus, and says that many drivers have been forced to do double runs. The state Department of Education holds a class for people who are interested in becoming a bus driver.

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Newsby StaffAugust 30, 2012

School bus impaled by log

Police cite the driver of a logging truck for making an improper turn after the Berkeley County (S.C.) School District bus is struck by a log on the back of the truck. The bus passengers are taken to the hospital as a precaution, but no one is injured.

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Newsby StaffJuly 31, 2012

District transportation director dies suddenly

After attending his sons' basketball games, Rock Hill (S.C.) Schools Transportation Director Anthony White checks himself into the hospital for side pain and what he thinks is pneumonia. He is declared dead the next morning.

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