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More Distraction on the Way for Already Distracted Driving?

As if there weren't enough distractions on the road today, a company announced this week at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland that it is bringing to market new ways…

March 10, 2011
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President Obama, First Lady Announce Bullying Summit at White House

Affecting "every single young person in our country," President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama announced via Facebook that they will host a bullying summit at the White House on…

March 9, 2011
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Have Rural Roadway, Walk Route Problems? Solutions? This Event May Be for You

According to an STN survey conducted a year ago, approximately 7 out of 10 readers hail from what they consider to be rural areas across the county. When it comes…

March 8, 2011
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Hybrids Might be the Way of the Future but Remain Slow in Coming to School Transportation Industry

While numbers of hybrid-drive school buses in use nationwide remain low, some students in Miami, Fla., are already riding to and from school in electrified transit buses.

March 4, 2011
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Routes Around the World: Bus Crashes

STN global correspondent Anson Stewart returns with a story of a January bus crash that occurred as he was traveling and reporting in Panama. He discusses bus and road safety…

March 1, 2011
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Maine Reviewing Loophole in Alcohol Container Laws

After students on a school bus in the Unorganized Territory of the state found an unopened beer can and immediately informed both school officials and their parents, the issue has…

February 28, 2011
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Supporters Rally for Release of Chowchilla, Calif., School Bus Kidnappers

After spending 35 years in California state prison for kidnapping a school bus full of children and later burying them in an underground trailer, brothers Jim and Richard Schoenfeld and…

February 24, 2011
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Routes Around the World: Bus Art Closeups from Panama City

STN global correspondent Anson Stewart shows us how the buses of Panama City have become a rolling canvases.

February 24, 2011
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A Different Type of 'Love the Bus'

As school districts and bus companies across the country celebrated Valentine's Day with American School Bus Council Love the Bus events, or were planning to this month, we received the…

February 14, 2011
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How to Keep Students Occupied on the School Bus? Give Them a Book

It's amazing how peaceful the ride home from school can be using a little old-fashioned ingenuity. They are called books.

February 10, 2011
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Even in 2011, Ignorance Still Rears its Head as Seen by Driver E-mail

I know there are still many people who have a backwards view of others, whether they be of a different race, religion or sexual preference, but sometimes a person's ignorance…

February 9, 2011
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Routes Around the World: Albanisa – Venezuelan Oil and Replacing Old U.S. School Buses

STN correspondent Anson Stewart continues his recap after taking a break from updating us on his school bus adventures around the world. This installment centers on a bus replacement program…

February 9, 2011
Last modified on Friday, 25 April 2014 05:42

NHTSA, NASA: No Electronic Causes of Unintended Acceleration

In our October 2009 magazine issue we investigated the issue of brake pedal misapplication and a push by the National Transportation Safety Board to get NHTSA to write a new…

February 8, 2011
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How Education Can Avoid Moving to the Back of the Bus

What does it say about our society when a mother who lives in subsidized housing while taking college courses to become a teacher is convicted of falsifying records so she…