Fleet Management and Surveillance Solutions for the Student Transportation and Public Transit Industries

Customer Success Stories

How Cook-Illinois Saves Time with Wireless Solution

How Cook-Illinois Saves Time with Wireless Solution

Customer Success Stories, School Bus, Stop-arm Cameras
Over the last 50 years, Cook-Illinois Corporation has grown from a handful of buses to more than 2,200 vehicles bringing the company the status of one of the largest family owned and operated school bus contractors in the US. Despite their growth and development, there is nothing more important for the transportation team than getting students to school and back, safely and on time. (more…)
Driver Recruitment and Retention Best Practices: Switzer-Carty Transportation

Driver Recruitment and Retention Best Practices: Switzer-Carty Transportation

Customer Success Stories, Expert Advice Series, School Bus
90% of school districts and school transportation companies across North America have experienced a driver shortage. Strict industry regulations, safety concerns, low wages and sometimes even negative public perception of driving buses keep people from entering the field. At the same time, school transportation faces a high turnover rate with the best employees jumping from one company to another. Recruiting and training new drivers is more expensive than retaining existing personnel, and the lack of qualified workforce forces transportation managers to figure out how to keep their best people. And raising the salary range might not be the deal breaker here: some other factors like low employee engagement or lack of respect at work can be drawing your workforce away. So, what can be done t...
Boy Scouts Use Seon Routing Software to Speed Christmas Tree Pick up

Boy Scouts Use Seon Routing Software to Speed Christmas Tree Pick up

Customer Success Stories
For the last dozen years Boy Scout Troop 116 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, has picked up Christmas trees after the holidays to recycle as flower bed mulch in the spring. It used to be a time-consuming process starting at dawn the first or second Saturday in January, with more than 85 volunteers travelling multiple routes from home to home, regardless of the weather. Then, three years ago, US Computing (acquired by Seon in April 2015) donated their Compass Logistics routing software to simplify the task. This year, Seon will donate the use of the software once again to support this heroic effort. (more…)