non-school bus modes. Tat number was 800 in 2002, but has declined to about 500 currently. Tat still validates the point about how much safer school buses are than alter- native modes of school transportation.” He added that the American School Bus


Council is using the updated figures online at www.americanschoolbuscouncil.org and in various materials used to promote school bus safety and other benefits.


BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD ON MOTORCOACH SAFETY? With the latest version of the Motor-


coach Enhanced Safety Act failing to pass Congress during the lame duck session late last year, sponsor Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced last month that he would reintroduce the legislation. Safety advocates and victims groups supported a more limited version of the bill that was heavily opposed by the motorcoach industry and several other senators. Te United Motorcoach Association also said last month that legislation was unneces- sary in light of an expected NHTSA rule based on crash testing. NSTA also said the industry could favor HR 1135, the Bus Uniform Standards Enhanced Safety Act (BUSES Act) introduced by Rep. William Shuster (R-PA). Te issue was thought to be a likely consideration in the SAFETEA- LU reauthorization, which Congress again extended at the end of 2010 to continue funding federal transportation programs through March 4. Te original SAFETEA- LU expired in September 2009.


OREGON HEAD START TRANSPORTER WINS SCHOLARSHIP TO NATIONAL DISABILITIES CONFERENCE American


Logistics


tics school transportation services. “We believe the foundation of doing things right is training. With a 20-year history of hands-on training, the Transporting Stu- dents with Disabilities Conference is the best source of ideas specifically for trans- porting students with special needs that exists in the industry today.” Clinkscales manages a fleet of 14 school


buses at NeighborImpact and supervises, trains, monitors and maintains records for 30 Head Start school bus drivers. She also trains all company employees as bus monitors. As a member of the Oregon Pupil Transportation Association and the state’s Early Childhood Transportation Work Group, she also shares the knowl- edge from conferences she attends. ■


announced


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month that Diane Clinkscales of Neigh- borImpact Head Start in Bend, Ore., won the company’s third-annual scholarship to attend the 20th National Conference and Exhibition on Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers, which is scheduled for next month in Kansas City. “We are thrilled to provide this schol-


arship because we are passionate about the safe and efficient transportation of students with special needs,” said Chris Tomas, manager of American Logis-


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