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SMART Tag is the premier on-bus tablet solution for student ridership management with pre/post-trip inspection, fleet GPS and e-messaging. The user-friendly rugged tablet and RFID cards help ensure students ride the correct bus, get off at the right stop and are not left on the bus. Offering guardian check for Pre-K/SPED riders, SHARS reports, and integration with your existing routing and maintenance software. Fleet visibility and student info is accessed through our secure web portals for ISDs, campuses and parents.


“SMART tag truly is a magnificent leap in student transportation… the tablet does so much it's actually unbelievable.”


NTSB’s Thomas Barth presents on recent school bus crashes and agency recommendations to the industry during the NASDPTS Annual Conference in November.


were on board at the time, however, an attendant was. An investigation found that the 67-year-old driver, who had been involved in at least a dozen car crashes over the previous five years, had a history of seizures and other medical issues. He was prohibited from operating a commercial vehicle by the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration two months before the incident. A phone call and an email sent to BCPS were unanswered. A call to AAAffordable was met with a referral to their attorneys. Subsequent calls during AAAffordable’s published business hours went unanswered. Days later, the Baltimore crash


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was overshadowed by the fatal bus overturning in Chattanooga. New information and findings continue to emerge from that tragedy. No drugs or alcohol were found in the system of the 24-year-old Durham Bus Company driver, yet the bus was off its designated route and traveling an estimated 20 mph over the posted speed limit of 30 mph. Te driver is also suspected of using a cellphone just prior to the crash. Te bus was carrying 35 students in kindergarten through fifth grade.


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Just days later, a Twinsburg City Schools bus in Ohio with 48 middle school students on board was clocked by a police officer at 50 mph in a 25-mph zone. Te driver was placed on leave and subsequently resigned. Superintendent Kathi Powers said the district’s buses have cameras but do not have GPS technology to moni- tor driver habits. “We’re looking at harvesting that technology to improve our efficiency,” she added.


THE FMCSA RULES AND THE 2017 “MOST WANTED LIST” Te first Final Rule announced


by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration establishes a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse for commercial truck and bus drivers. Te clearinghouse will provide a database of violations of FMCSA policy by commercial driver’s licenses holders. It would require FMCSA-regulated bus companies, medical review officers, substance abuse professionals, and private, third-party USDOT drug and alcohol testing laboratories to record information on drivers who fail a drug or alcohol test; refuses to submit to a test, and who successfully complete a


CELEBRATING 25 YEARS


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