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With school buses hitting the road, officials from school districts, bus companies and law enforcement agencies are implementing traffic safety initiatives, and issuing tips for students, motorists and parents. In North Carolina, for example, Rockingham County Schools has installed nine cameras that will rotate among its buses to help catch motorists who illegally pass stopped school buses.
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Officials at Gaston County Schools in North Carolina say that with statewide budget cuts, the district can no longer afford to have school buses stop at every household, but under the new route plan, no elementary student will be required to walk farther than one-fifth or two-tenths of a mile to a bus stop. The changes will also reduce bus trip time by 15 percent and reduce the need to idle buses.
Read More →The WoodsRock III Musical Festival is an annual event that started in 2009 to support bus service for a North Carolina charter school. The festival, which will be held later this month, is a community-wide effort — the participants who plan and work at the festival are volunteers, including the bands that perform.
Read More →The company’s plant in North Carolina builds the 10,000th ISL G natural gas engine, which can be used in school buses. Officials say this makes the ISL G the largest single automotive natural gas engine production in Cummins history. Key features of the unit include power ratings from 250 to 320 horsepower and up to 1,000 lb.-ft. of torque.
Read More →The school bus manufacturer is awarded a 2011 North Carolina Mobile Clean Air Renewable Energy award in the category of Technology/Fuel Provider. The company operates the nation's first zero-waste-to-landfill school bus manufacturing facility and produces both compressed natural gas and hybrid-electric school buses.
Read More →The addition of the Gregory Poole Equipment Co. increases the number of Blue Bird customer service locations in North Carolina to seven full-service facilities, with multiple field-service technicians strategically positioned throughout the state.
Read More →Officials in New York, North Carolina and Virginia successfully complete the association’s Special Needs Transportation Training Program. The program consists of 24 hours of education in a variety of settings. The core curriculum is supplemented by eight hours of elective instruction from the NAPT Professional Development Series Program.
Read More →Samuel David Mullenhauer faces the charge after North Carolina police receive a report that a school bus from Virginia is being driven erratically and take him into custody. Police later discover that the bus is stolen property.
Read More →The transportation staff for the North Carolina district put 1.3 million gallons of diesel fuel out to bid in February and accepted a bid price of $2.85 per gallon. The district typically uses 60,000 gallons of diesel fuel per week to operate its buses; officials say that if the state contract price of $3.24 remains at that rate until June 30, the district would see an approximate total savings of half a million dollars this year.
Read More →Under her proposed 2012 budget, Gov. Beverly Perdue wants to eliminate the $57 million the state would spend on replacing school buses. She also wants local governments to pick up the costs for workers’ compensation claims for drivers, which are estimated at $35 million statewide.
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