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Feb152017 by Vlada TereninaNo Comments

Transportation Administrator Driven to Help

Anti-bullying Program & Resources, School Bus, United Against Bullying

There are 13,500 children in Glendale Elementary School District #40, Arizona, covering 16 square miles. It’s a diversified population. School bus rules are translated into multiple languages such as Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, French, Swahili, Nepali, Nigerian, and Karin. This diverse community has a champion – a passionate administrator, Doris Bean, Manager of Transportation, who says ‘she is driven’ to help the kids. Bean applied for the 2015 United Against Bullying Grant and was awarded $3,500 for the development and implementation of an educational anti-bullying program. The grant enabled Bean to offer three very different events to her community in the 2016-2017 school year. (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...

Jan132015 by Vlada TereninaNo Comments

Top School Bus Safety Predictions for 2015

School Bus

Every year at the beginning of January, we publish a brief overview of the mobile safety trends and technologies that will be on the rise in the school transportation industry in the next twelve months. (more…)

Jun52014 by Tia O'GradyNo Comments

Seon’s School Bus Driver Contest Winner — The Story of Leslie Taggart & Bus 16

School Bus, Seon's Anti-bullying Campaign

If you don’t know already, on May 30, 2014, Seon completed a month long school bus driver contest. To enter, drivers sent Seon’s Facebook page a message. In the message they included a photo of themselves at their school bus, and told us 1. How they prevent bullying on the school bus, and 2. Why they love their job. Then we added the entries to a Seon Facebook Album called, “School Bus Drivers Preventing Bullying.” We had 19 entries, all of which were unique, thoughtful, and inspiring. The competition was tough, but when we received Leslie Taggart’s entry (school bus driver for 10 years at Centralia School District in Washington), we knew we had found our winner. (more…)