Winners Repeat at America’s Best
National Competition It’s two for two for Alan Fidler and Jack Defibaugh, as both took the same No. 1 spots
they won last year at the 2012 NAPT America’s Best National School Bus Technician and Inspector Training and Skills competition. For a second consecutive year, Fidler, a bus technician from Tippecanoe School Cor-
poration in Lafayette, Ind., received the America’s Best School Bus Technician award, and Defibaugh of Greenbrier County Schools in West Virginia won the America’s Best School Bus Inspector award. Fidler said being the best bus technician stems from “the plain and simple fact that we’re
hauling the most precious cargo that we can haul. I want to know that what I did was right when it went out that door,” he said. “I feel everybody should be that way when working on a school bus. Tere’s no second best when it comes to that. Tere’s nothing that makes the news faster than a bus accident.” Te hands-on phase of the competition challenged technicians with six diagnostic sta-
tions during a three-hour period, while competing inspectors completed four stations during a two-hour period. Te America’s Best national competition, in its ninth year, took place Sept. 25–28 at the
Cummings Engine Training Facility in Rocky Mount, N.C. A total of 31 competitors from 19 states participated in the event while 25 school transportation employees from the country took part in the training sessions for both technicians and inspectors. Automo- tive Service Excellence (ASE), Delco Remy, Hydrotex, Tomas Built Buses, Voith and Zonar Systems were the primary sponsors.
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Defibaugh, left, the inspector winner, and Tousley.
Fidler, left, the tech winner, with William Tousley, event coordinator.
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