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The 30-second public service announcement demonstrates that protecting the lives of students is worth waiting the extra time for a stopped school bus. It was produced in cooperation with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; authorities report that between September and January, they received 60 complaints of illegal passing incidents.
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The special-needs transportation management company will continue to serve a California school district through 2011. Officials report that in the past three years, ALC has saved the district 40 percent annually and improved service levels.
Read More →The grant will provide one bus company that serves a school system with the following technology from Zonar: Electronic Vehicle Inspection Report, GPS, real-time engine diagnostic reporting and Ground Traffic Control web-based software. Applicants must be current NSTA members, and applications are due Dec. 29.
Read More →Operations in Colorado and Ohio are using the company’s student tracking, school bus inspection and GPS solutions, and officials report these benefits in such areas as routing and bus maintenance. Two are also using the student tracking system for bus fee programs, and they are generating $300,000 and $1.2 million as a result.
Read More →What top challenges do school bus maintenance teams report? Check out the shifting trends in school bus shops from survey data touching on fleet makeup, fueling, bus age, software usage, tech pay, and more. Survey sponsor: Dayton Parts.
Read More →The new group, formed for ABA’s motorcoach members who also operate school buses, holds a call to discuss NTSB’s special investigative report.
Read More →About half of Trenton (N.J.) Public Schools’ drivers fail to report for work last Thursday after state fiscal monitor Marc Cowell overturns the district board’s vote to retain them and 150 other employees. Interim Superintendent of Schools Raymond Broach says they are working on “rectifying this situation.”
Read More →The National Transportation Safety Board’s long-awaited report on the fatal 2006 crash confirms that the school bus driver was not wearing his seat belt, which allowed him to be thrown from the bus before it plunged 30 feet off of a highway ramp.
Read More →Officials at Minneapolis Public Schools request a report on the absenteeism, but analysis has not yet been completed on whether the transit passes are responsible for the increase. Still, officials are discussing with Metro Transit whether it's possible to discourage students from skipping school by limiting the hours that they can use the passes.
Read More →The inspector general for Chicago (Ill.) Public Schools issued a report detailing the district’s failure to put conditions on funds paid to contractors early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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