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The school district partners with American Traffic Solutions, equipping buses in its fleet with the CrossingGuard school bus arm safety solution. The system mounts cameras and sensors on the side of a school bus, and when the stop arm is deployed, the sensors automatically detect a vehicle illegally passing the stop arm in either direction.
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Each year, SBF selects school bus operations from across the country to feature in depth in its Great Fleets Across America series.
Read More →With Blue Bird recently netting its biggest-ever order of propane school buses — more than 400 — President and CEO Phil Horlock is ebullient about the fuel’s potential. Here, he discusses alternative fuels, the state of school bus sales and other pertinent topics.
Read More →SCHOOL BUS FLEET’s February 2011 issue features our annual Special-Needs Survey. This year, there was some information that we couldn’t fit in the survey for the print issue, so I’ll share it with you here.
Read More →Peter Lawrence, director of transportation for Fairport (N.Y.) Central School District, speaks with SBF about an incident on a district bus in which a student forces his way from one end of the bus to the other while other students try to physically prevent him from doing so — a game called "red light." Lawrence offers tips for school bus drivers who might experience similar incidents.
Read More →Bomb threats. A bus stalling on train tracks. Even a spider outbreak? A veteran transportation director discusses the challenges and the excitement of a career in the school bus industry — along with some fascinating anecdotes.
Read More →In my years since joining the SBF team, I’ve learned how much school bus drivers can influence the lives of the students they transport. Bus driver Kristine Nyack has a positive attitude around her students, and she interacts with them by, among other things, performing an upbeat song.
Read More →Driver weathers aftermath of attack ATLANTA — On Nov. 7, 2001, Lynda Clanton, school bus driver for Fulton County Schools in Fairburn, ...
Read More →The 24 million children who ride the bus to and from school every day enjoy a degree of safety that’s unmatched in surface transportation. That’s some...
Read More →Four of five school bus drivers are satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs, according to a recent SBF survey. But what’s behind this high ...
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