INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS
Georgia First Lady Highlights State School Bus Safety Campaign Te Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) and state
Deal toured
Department of Education have partnered to launch the “Stop Means Stop” campaign, an initiative designed to educate Georgia motorists on school bus passing laws. Georgia’s First Lady, Sandra Deal, kicked off the campaign in August. Georgia law states that vehicles traveling in both directions
must stop when a school bus activates its stop arm when they are on a road with two lanes or more that has no median or barrier. Vehicles travelling in the same direction as a school bus must always stop, but motorists travelling in the opposite direc- tion can proceed (with caution) only when there is an unpaved median or barrier separating opposing lanes. While the number of stop-arm violations in the state declined
this year, the rate remains high. Data collected by districts state- wide in May show that 7,349 vehicles illegally passed school buses in a total of 4,222 incidences. Te numbers are likely much higher because not all of the state’s 178 school districts partici- pated in the one-day survey.
BIZ BITES: Zonar Systems said the snow-plow route for the city of Se-
attle (below) illustrates how GIS mapping helps optimize fuel efficiency. Te company was also officially added as an Esri Sil- ver Tier Partner for integrating with geographic information
the state with the GOHS and the Department of Education on Aug. 20 and 21 to spread the word
about
school bus safe- ty. She visited schools in Harris, Dougherty, Bibb, Bulloch and Columbia counties. “We are so happy to be partnering with Mrs. Deal and the De-
Sandra Deal
partment of Education on this issue,” said GOHS Director Harris Blackwood. “Tis issue is a no-brainer. Protect our kids. Stop means stop.” Since 1995, there have been 11 school bus stop fatalities in Georgia in which motorists struck students, the most in the nation.
systems (GIS). Zonar said its customers can now tap into map information for optimizing routes and increasing fuel efficiency ... Cincinnati Public Schools added 99 new Tomas Built Buses C2 Safe-T-Liner conventionals to its fleet, courtesy of First Stu- dent … CleanFUEL USA worked with Dallas County Schools to convert 53 of its Type A school buses to run on propane autogas and also provided propane fueling infrastructure through more than 37 contracts with Texas independent school districts, in- cluding Austin, Houston and Arlington … Lewis Campbell was
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named the interim CEO of Navistar and Troy Clarke was pro- moted to president and COO after Daniel Ustian resigned … ATR Transmission Remanufacturing, Inc. has launched a re- designed website (above) that offers more information about its ISO remanufacturing processes, product lines, management team, “turnkey” program highlights, quality policy and techni- cal bulletins … Gwinnett County Public Schools in Georgia is installing the Donaldson Company’s Diesel Oxidation Catalyst muffler as part of an emissions reduction retrofitting project for its school bus fleet … National Interstate reports it has in- creased the number of school buses it insures to 30,000, or about 20 percent of the national contracted fleet … Gord Taylor, the immediate past-president of the Ontario School Bus Associa- tion and District 7 representative, resigned from the OSBA board of directors and from his position at Stock Transportation Sept. 24 … Cleaire Advanced Emissions Controls opened a heavy- duty chassis dynamometer emissions lab for outside contracts.
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