PHOTOS: Pupil transportation in pictures — winter/spring 2015

Transfinder hosts free webinar on optimizing fuel savings

On March 12 at 1 p.m. EST, school transportation professionals will share how Transfinder helped them leverage technology to create ongoing savings that they reinvested in other important school initiatives.

Collins Bus promotes Joe Leggett to VP role

As vice president of sales for the Type A school bus manufacturer, Leggett will lead sales efforts in the U.S. and Canada.

School bus drivers brave icy weather to pick up stranded students, staff

Inclement weather in the Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas, area stranded 230 Round Rock ISD students, staff and chaperones. Eight district transportation employees hit the road to bring them home.

Pupil transportation veteran Jerry Rineer shifts to university job

Rineer, a longtime school bus supervisor before he retired in December, is now working with students who have mobility issues at Villanova University.

School bus safety veteran Wilma Crabtree to retire

Crabtree’s efforts have included spearheading the national survey of school bus loading and unloading fatalities since the early 1980s.

Illinois association to hold annual conference in June

The Illinois Association for Pupil Transportation will hold its 32nd annual conference, technician competition and school bus safety roadeo from June 16 to 18 in Peoria.

Hoglund Bus owner Holly Hoglund Klein dies in crash

Hoglund Klein, who led her family’s Minnesota-based school bus dealership, is remembered for her passion for pupil transportation and her efforts to help others succeed.

New face, same mission

I met many of you at the NAPT Summit, and immediately I could tell that this industry is a community that is passionate about keeping children safe and contributing to their education.

Survey reports on illegal bus passing incidents in New York

School bus drivers in 26 districts found that 259 motorists passed a stopped bus on Feb. 24. The New York Association for Pupil Transportation estimates the total number statewide is closer to 10,000.