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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

March 2014 Digital Magazine Edition

Dawn Lair is a school bus mechanic as well as school bus driver for Live Oak School District in Northern California. Meet here and other women who prove that the maintenance bay is not just a man's world in this month's cover story.

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NASDPTS Publishes Position Supporting 3-point Seat Belts on all School Buses

NASDPTS followed up on an executive board vote in October to update its position on school bus lap-shoulder seat belts with a paper that outlines its new full support for the implementation of occupant restraint systems, as long as student ridership is not impacted. [Read more]

Updated: 'Safe Routes' Webinar Covers District Liability With Crossing Guard, Walking Bus Programs

A 6-year-old walking to school in the Bronx was struck and injured by a school bus this month at an intersection normally manned by a crossing guard. School officials said the regular guard called in sick and the replacement guard showed up over an hour later, after the accident. [Read more]

Nine Children Killed Nationally at School Bus Stops, Kansas Report Finds

States reported the same number of fatalities for the 2012-2013 school year during school bus loading and unloading operations as for the previous school year, the Kansas State Department of Education released to STN on Tuesday. [Read more]

Updated: Top 10 Most-Viewed 2013 STN Online Articles

As the new year beckons, we take a look back at the most read articles from the past 12 months. What's your opinion? These articles are ranked in descending order based on the highest number of views. Do you think there were more important articles that readers missed out on? Let us know. [Read more]

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Talking Shop: Veteran Parts, Inventory Specialist Brings Women's Touch to Garage

Tens of thousands of females nationwide are school bus drivers, routers, dispatchers, trainers, supervisors and directors. But few work in the garage. For the past 30 years, Aneliese Hessekiel has helped grease the wheels of student transportation in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. Unlike the ladies we meet on page 48 in our March magazine, she doesn't actually work on the buses but keeps the garage running smoothly and the mechanics happy. She is an auto shopkeeper at Los Angeles Unified School District's Sun Valley garage. We sat down with her at her office in ...

A Day in the Life: Three Women Discuss Their Daily Duties as School Bus Mechanics

Dawn Lair manages a fleet of eight school buses, four vans, three cars and five trucks in the Live Oak Unified School District in northern California. She is one of three women profiled in our March magazine edition.

New Programming Options for Bus-Engine Heaters Help Drive Down Costs

This winter’s slew of snowstorms has closed hundreds of schools for days on end, often because their yellow buses would not start or roads were impassable. Many school districts and bus contractors kept buses up and running by using electrical block heaters, and still others implemented new programming technology to maximize efficiency and to save money — not to mention school days.