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After the devastating tsunami hit Japan in March, the West Coast of the U.S. braced for impact. The director of transportation and a driver from a California district share details with SBF on their department's role in evacuating local residents before the surges hit.
Read More →Attendees of the National Child Care Association's (NCCA) annual conference in Las Vegas in mid-March put their heads together in an attempt to unders...
Read More →School bus services in the state would be paid for out of the transportation budget rather than the general fund to help legislators comply with a Supreme Court order to increase basic education funding for students. House Majority Leader Pat Sullivan says that any money for bus service would have to come out of revenue generated from a transportation funding package that lawmakers may put before voters next year.
Read More →Funding for high-cost and long-distance pupil transportation would be increased under a plan by Gov. Scott Walker to provide more resources for rural schools.
Read More →Beyond his contributions in trade magazine publishing, what you may not know about Ed Bobit is the crucial role he played in the survival of the National Association for Pupil Transportation in its early years. As Mike Martin puts it, "There would be no NAPT without Ed Bobit. Period."
Read More →In order to avoid canceling high school sports games, Los Angeles Unified School District will have to come up with $650,000 to make up for what was cut from the district's athletic transportation fund.
Read More →Final report issued on Tennga bus-train crash WASHINGTON, D.C.— The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the sc...
Read More →Gregg Peterson retires after 49 years in the school bus industry. He started working for his uncle’s company, Russell Transportation, at 17 years old.
Read More →School districts in Illinois would not receive the regular transportation payment for the FY 2011 fourth quarter, under a plan announced by the governor’s Office of Management and Budget. School officials are working to save the funding.
Read More →RALEIGH, N.C. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters today rode with children in a school bus equipped with three-point seat belts to Morrisvill...
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