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Building relationships for special-needs transportation and effective radio communication were a couple of the key topics covered during the California Association of School Transportation Officials' annual conference in Sacramento.
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Read More →Discover essential strategies for evacuating special-needs students from school buses. This comprehensive approach includes customized evacuation plans, effective staff training, regular emergency drills, and community engagement to enhance student safety.
Read More →Dramatic rescue credited to a combination of training, instincts SPARTANBURG, S.C. — On Feb. 8, 2002, at around 7 a.m., a Mercedes sed...
Read More →An accident involving a fatality will test the mettle of any school bus operation. Overcoming one takes careful planning, practice and systematic execution. (This article originally appeared in our August 2001 issue.)
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Read More →Tammy League rushes to assist a man bleeding from an incision point from a surgery he had recently. She uses her training, as well as safety gloves and a first aid kit from her bus, to stanch the bleeding until an ambulance arrives.
Read More →Transportation staff from Elk Grove Unified School District give tips for successful driver-dispatch communication during the California Association of School Transportation Officials’ recent annual conference.
Read More →Student Transportation of America has partnered with the school community in Greenwich, Conn., to provide aid to Haitian-American bus drivers and monitors whose loved ones have been impacted by the disaster. The company is helping its staff to communicate with relatives, and a company-wide donation system has been established.
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