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Pupil transportation providers, suppliers, and elected officials nationwide host press conferences, push school bus safety bills, and hold events to appreciate bus drivers.
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In the February issue, Executive Editor Thomas McMahon described an incident in which a school bus driver was charged with illegally passing another school bus. He asked readers to tell us how they would respond to such an incident at their operation, and what offenses lead to immediate termination.
Read More →Electric buses, onboard technology, seat belts, and illegal passing were key points of discussion on the first full day.
Read More →Indiana lawmakers cut a provision to let schools buy stop-arm cameras with a share of the fines from illegal passers and change a provision that would have made a license suspension mandatory.
Read More →In Ferguson Township, nearly five times as many illegal passings have been reported this school year compared to the previous year, according to figures from local police.
Read More →Ashley McMaster of Nova Scotia, Canada, gets frustrated watching motorists illegally passing her daughter’s bus and posts videos of incidents, which catch attention from law enforcement.
Read More →Transportation officials, police officers and other leaders in New York hold events to publicize the dangers of illegally passing stopped school buses.
Read More →Motorists cited for passing a stopped school bus will now pay $500 instead of $300. Other crackdown efforts, such as making it harder to plea down a charge, have not passed the legislature.
Read More →School districts and bus companies would be permitted to equip their buses with the technology to capture illegal bus passers under House Bill 1580. Rep. Seth Grove, who introduced the legislation, says utilizing the cameras “can provide increased accountability of drivers and remove the burden from school bus drivers to bear witness to all facets of the violations when their primary goal is to ensure the safe transportation of the children in their charge.”
Read More →For those involved in pupil transportation, illegal passing of school buses is a persistent and dangerous scourge. So what do you do when the vehicle that illegally drives by a school bus is … another school bus?
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