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Kevin Harrison takes over the role as longtime director Derek Graham retires. Harrison oversees a multi-pronged approach to crossing safety, including pilots for extended stop arms and bumper-level strobe lights.
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The funding from the N.C. Volkswagen Settlement Program is earmarked primarily for rural counties, especially under-resourced communities. It will go toward buying 161 electric, propane, and lower-emission diesel school buses throughout North Carolina.
Read More →Troopers across the state are focusing on illegal passing of school buses and other school-related traffic violations this week as part of Operation Stop Arm.
Read More →The Palmetto state looks to add $40M in funding for school bus replacement schedules and 300 new buses.
Read More →Joyce Key was named Driver of the Year at a Bus Drivers Appreciation Banquet last week. Key began driving a school bus 29 years ago and has not had an accident.
Read More →Under the state’s budget that was approved earlier this summer, a school bus is eligible for replacement when it is either 20 years old or has been operated for 250,000 miles, up from 200,000 miles. While advocates of the changes say that it will save money and promote more efficient use of school buses, some industry officials express differing views.
Read More →When Alice Bradley saw a man and woman headed toward her bus and the man allegedly pointed a gun at her, she drove her car toward him and they ran away. The suspects were later arrested after pulling a gun on a deputy and said they would have started shooting teachers and students.
Read More →Funding would be cut by $28 million for 2013-14, a reduction of 42% under the Senate’s budget bill. Lawmakers are also proposing to increase the mileage limit on school buses in the state from 200,000 miles to 250,000 as a cost-savings measure.
Read More →The Thomas Built Buses vehicle is just the first for the tribe, which is expected to get at least four more with funds from a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant award.
Read More →Student transportation leaders in North Carolina's Wake County distributed Bojangle's biscuits and goody bags to school bus drivers at East Cary Middle School in celebration of Love the Bus month.
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