INDUSTRY navistar and t yler technologies were
named as two of 10 defendants in a civil complaint filed by Innovative Global Sys- tems, LLC, that alleges five of the South Carolina-based company’s patents for telematics and communications products were infringed upon. Te jury trial will be held in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Other defendants include Volvo Con-
struction Equipment North America, Inc., Volvo Trucks North America,
Inc.;
Komatsu America Corp.; Caterpillar, Inc.; Hyundai Construction Equipment Ameri- cas, Inc.; Topcon Tierra; StarTrak Systems, LLC; JLG Industries, Inc.; and Geotab, Inc.
Te National Safety Council recognized
four f irst Student school bus drivers who have operated school buses for a mini- mum of 15 years or 250,000 miles without a preventable accident, the company an- nounced in August. Te First Student employees winning the safe driver awards
are: Brenda Taylor of Dalton, Ga. (30 years, never missing a day of work); Roy Lineber- ry of Charleston, Ill. (23 years); Michelle Tate of Naperville, Ill. (20 years); and Daisy Walker of Naperville, Ill. (21 years). “To possess the driving and safety re-
cords these drivers have is a tremendous accomplishment,” said Linda Burtwistle, president of First Student. “Teir commit- ment to the safety of the students they transport is unparalleled, and is some- thing every driver should seek to emulate.”
Vegas
Clark County School Board serving Las in August
selected the Compass school bus routing software from u.S.
Computing for the district’s transportation routing operations. CCSD has an enrollment of more than 290,000 students, transport- ing nearly a third of them on more than 1,400 school buses to 200 school sites. U.S. Computing offers fully Web-based school bus routing solutions with true route opti- mization to help lower fleet operation costs
and provide better scheduling with low bus ride times for students.
national express Corporation, owner of
Durham School Services and Stock Trans- portation, took home three awards at the NSTA Annual Meeting on July 27 in St. Louis. Barry Stock, who retired from National
Express at the end of July as the company’s executive VP of customer development, won NSTA’s Hall of Fame Award. He be- came a full-time member of the school bus industry in 1988 when he started Stock School Transport. He is NSTA’s im- mediate past-president. Kirk Flach and Robert Hatchett, both
senior VPs of operations, were awarded NS- TA’s Golden Merit Award for achievements in safety, driver training, business practice, vehicle maintenance, and superior service to the school customers, the community at-large and the national pupil transporta- tion industry. Hatchett is also a delegate on NSTA’s Board of Directors. ■
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