Consistent Access to Education during COVID-19
The School Bus as a Wi-Fi Hotspot The issue of consistency and connectivity Back to school, a regular event that takes place every fall will roll out as anything but regular this year. COVID-19 has changed how we do pretty much everything, including how students return to school this [...]
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 [...]
Got Pre and Post Inspection Pain?
Do you have regular pre and post inspection pain? Are you hemorrhaging time and effort on inflexible and complicated checkups? You are not alone. Pain from DVIR/pre and post-trip inspection requirements and the tools and/or manual processes used to meet requirements is a common sentiment in the bus/fleet management [...]
High-Touch Video Surveillance/Fleet Safety System Cleaning and Disinfecting Guidelines in Response to COVID-19
Your Safe Fleet video surveillance/fleet safety systems may be subject to frequent handling/touching and subsequent bacterial and viral contamination. Global health authorities advise that the removal of dirt and impurities can help lower the risk of infection. The use of chemical disinfectant may also help kill bacteria and viruses [...]
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 [...]
We’re Changing Our Name to Safe Fleet
When Safe Fleet acquired Seon in 2014, we were their first video surveillance brand. Six years later we are one of six fleet vehicle video brands, making Safe Fleet the World’s #1 supplier of fleet video solutions. As part of one Safe Fleet video group, we now have access [...]
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 [...]
What you need to know about video surveillance solution hard drives and media storage options
So, you’re looking to add video surveillance to vehicles and there are so many things to consider. Below we attempt to demystify some of those things.Video Surveillance StorageIt’s well understood you need a place to store all the video and audio your system will capture, and more storage provides more [...]
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 [...]
Ramp up your Fleet Safety and Efficiency Game with Wireless Downloading
We were recently joined by Don Carter, Director of Transportation for Port St. Lucie Public Schools in Florida, for an informative webinar featuring hints, tips, and best practices for implementing wireless video downloading for school bus fleets. Bob Burke, Account Executive for Seon, explained how the hardware, software, and [...]
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 [...]
6 Challenges Fleet Managers Solve Using Wireless Downloading
The more often you remove and reinstall media, the more you run the risk of damaging the media. Can you accept that you might find yourself without video backup when you need it most? But not all fleets that use video surveillance systems choose wireless downloading as part of [...]
3 Free Tools (And One Low-Cost One) Small School Districts Should Consider to Manage Bus Fleets
We love talking with transportation staff at small school districts. Sometimes our calls with Transportation Directors get interrupted because of the many hats these Directors wear. A recent example: the Transportation Director had to end a call to start a troublesome lawnmower. At another district, we discussed routing plans [...]
