COVID-19 and Schools: Our world and how we operate is changing rapidly.
Do you have the resources and the tools to accommodate these changes? Our School Districts and Schools will be making a significant amount of changes this coming school year; changes to how they transport students, and schedule classes. Does your district/school have the tools and systems needed to manage [...]
Are your buses COVID clean?
Quickly and Easily Customize your DVIR inspections to incorporate COVID cleaning processes or any other inspection – in Minutes. Until now, the options to help a fleet manage pre and post-trip inspections have been limited. Electronic inspection tools have typically required RFID tags and specialized hardware. They have not [...]
Whitepaper: A Mission to Keep Students Safe and Change Motorist Behavior
We’ve written about this before; the number of school bus stop arm violations is increasing, and while catching and ticketing stop arm violators helps, it is often not enough to keep kids safe. Motorist distraction is usually said to be the underlying cause for this increase, but some experts [...]
Video Surveillance hardware Country of Origin and the Question of Banned Components
With tariffs, trade wars and concerns over technology, Safe Fleet has seen an increased level of interest from customers on the topic of video technology country of origin and in particular, those products that are sourced specifically from China. Safe Fleet has been diversifying away from sourcing products from [...]
Safe Fleet Technology Showcased on Capitol Hill during National School Bus Safety Week
More than 15 million illegal school bus passes occurred nation-wide in the 2018 school year and with these numbers came tragic consequences. In October, 2018 one Rochester, Indiana family lost three children in just one illegal passing incident. The deaths of the siblings prompted U.S. Reps Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) [...]
How to Keep Kids Safe From Illegal School Bus Passing Accidents
Roads are becoming busier and distractions more complex, causing students to be more at risk than ever before. A 2019 NASDPTS survey identified 95,000 illegal passes across 39 states in a single day; that's over 17 million near misses in one school year. It’s not surprising that 57% of [...]
NASDPTS says the Number of School Bus Stop Arm Violations is Increasing
We say, the Technology to Decrease these Numbers is Real and Available Today. The staggering statistics associated with the number of stop arm violations occurring each day are hard to fathom. The NASDPTS 2019 School Bus Industry Survey identified an average of 95,000 illegal passes across 39 states in [...]
School Bus Stop Arm Violations Resulting in Child Injury and Fatality
Driving the numbers down using technology and a completely new approach Up until now, we’ve faced student safety outside the school bus as we always have. We’ve focused on educating passing motorists on how and when it’s safe and legal to pass a school bus. We’ve relied on drivers [...]
Child Injury and Fatality from School Bus Stop-Arm Violations
How do we really drive the numbers down? We need to face some very hard facts. We are becoming more and more distracted. Our children are, and will continue to be in harm’s way, as we add more cars, more drivers and distraction to our daily lives: unless we [...]
Turn the Danger Zone into a Safety Zone – See New Safe Fleet Solutions at NAPT
Visit us in booth 629 to learn how we can help you change the danger zone into a safety zone. We’re excited about this year’s NAPT Annual Conference and Tradeshow and looking forward to continuing conversations about Danger Zone Safety. NAPT Executive Director, Mike Martin’s recent email to NAPT [...]
Back-to-School Safety Zone Checklist
360 degrees of Safety around the School Bus64% of the school-age pedestrians fatally injured in school-transportation-related crashes in the last decade were struck by the school buses themselves. (NHTSA, Traffic Safety Fact Sheet, 2017)Two deadly contributors to these preventable accidents are:1) Driver Distraction and2) Vehicle Blind spotsWhether we are drivers, [...]
Six Low Cost Ideas for School Bus Driver Appreciation
Finding and keeping good school bus drivers is one of the biggest challenges facing school transportation today. 90% of fleets reported a driver shortage in School Bus Fleet Magazine's 2017 annual survey of school district fleets. And driver retention strategies are always a hot topic at every industry conference. [...]
How School Bus Cameras Can Help in Accident Reconstruction
It was a regular Wednesday afternoon for Clayton County bus driver Terry Pettiford, who had just dropped the children off after a volleyball game and was coming back to the bus yard. She was driving down Panhandle Road when all of a sudden a red car crossed the center [...]
The 5 Reasons to Invest in Transit Bus Cameras
It’s no question that transit bus cameras are a “must-have” for the transit industry; they are an essential investment and provide useful information that transportation managers value. Check out what we think are the top 5 reasons transit bus cameras are an important investment: 1. Prevent Costly Litigation Cameras [...]
