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Aug172016 by Vlada TereninaNo Comments

School Bus Hub: A New Portal Gives Parents Peace of Mind

Expert Advice Series, School Bus, Solution & Product Updates, Videos

With unpredictable situations on the road caused by high traffic, emergencies, or severe weather conditions, keeping parents up-to-date on the status of their child’s bus can be challenging for school transportation departments. Transportation staff are often swamped with phone calls from parents asking “Where’s the bus?”, and spend hours fielding requests and looking up information. (more…)

May272016 by Vlada TereninaNo Comments

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...

Dec182015 by Vlada TereninaNo Comments

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…)

Apr142015 by Lori JethaNo Comments

Giving Back & Remembering a Friend

Transit, Uncategorized

This past weekend, Seon’s Transit Division Sales Manager, Mike Bismeyer participated in the 3rd annual Cody’s Run in Norman, Oklahoma. The run was started in 2013 by Cody Ponder, a Seon customer and friend from Cleveland Area Rapid Transit (CART) – University of Oklahoma, who was then battling esophageal cancer. Cody passed away later that year, but the run has lived on as a way of giving back to the community that he lived in. Cody’s run is a 5k dedicated to helping the Stephenson Cancer Center and Oklahoma Cancer Patients. (more…)