everyone involved in the conversation to keep in mind the need to potentially ex- pand professional development, driver training programs and parent education regarding specialized equipment,” she said in the February magazine issue of STN.
Distracted Driving Te past year has definitely opened the
eyes of all motorists to the safety problem of operating cell phones while behind the wheel. It grabbed the attention of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, so much so he convened the first-of- its-kind Distracted Driving Summit last September. Tere, the Virginia Tech Trans- portation Institute unveiled research that shows distracted driving increases the risk of a crash by 23 times. Ten, there was data from the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety that driver distraction can lead to fewer mirror checks and not seeing things that are otherwise visible to all others, a phenomenon known as inat-
tention blindness. But distracted driving does not just center around hand-held phone conversations and text messages while navigating traffic. Yes, a slew of state laws have passed over the last couple of years that specifically targets this behav- ior. But, like we wrote in our May issue, distracted driving comes in many forms.
EGR vs SCR: A Battle for Die- sel Engine Supremacy Perhaps the biggest news of the year was
the one that really provided no new news, which is changing as Blue Bird, IC Bus and Tomas Built Buses have begun filling or- ders for new 2010 diesel school buses that utilize either Advanced Exhaust Gas Recir- culation or Selective Catalyst Reduction technologies. For the better part of the last two years, if not longer, the industry had digested a lot on the latest wave of the EPA’s 2010 diesel emissions
regulations,
which went into full effect this past Janu- ary. It kicked off an intense advertising and
customer training campaign. But, until re- cently, there hadn’t been much real-world data available to share. Read the related ar- ticle this month on page 42 to learn more.
The Swine Flu Tough the pandemic began more
than a year ago, the full burden of prepar- ing and dealing with sick students — in classrooms and school buses — fell upon districts nationwide at the start of the 2009-2010 school year. Te H1N1 virus was
still being considered a pandemic
through mid-month, according to a state- ment made in June by Margaret Chan, the director-general of the World Health Organization, at which time it was to be re-evaluated. But the so-called swine flu has still been responsible for more than 18,100 confirmed deaths since the initial outbreak in late April of last year. Certainly, H1N1 emergency plans have
taken priority in school districts and trans- portation departments. Te vaccine has
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