Peace of Mind: How and Why Tracking Students on School Buses Enables Enhanced Safety
The tracking of students on school buses is all about safety and parent empowerment. To do their jobs properly, school districts need a reliable way to communicate student and bus data to authorities during emergency situations and to parents for everyday peace-of-mind. From a safety perspective, boarding a school [...]
5 Ways to Reduce the Risks Associated with Illegal Passing
Illegal passing is a reckless act that puts innocent lives at risk. Children trying to get to or from school are vulnerable to distracted drivers who break the law by not stopping for a school bus. Just a couple of weeks ago, in North Carolina, two children narrowly escaped [...]
How School Buses Safely Transport Students, And How We Can Help Prevent Injury
Each weekday, around 25 million students in the US hop on a school bus to get to school. School buses provide 70 times more chances of safe arrival to school, compared to a personal car.[1] Even so, there is still an annual average of 128 school transportation-related fatalities.[2] That [...]
The Safe Fleet Connected School Bus
The combined value of a significant number of Safe Fleet school bus safety and efficiency solutions have been brought together to form the Safe Fleet Connected School Bus. The stronger together adage is reflected in this Connected Bus, which leverages the strengths of its separate parts resulting in an [...]
Safe Fleet School Bus Product Roadmap
Our game-changing Predictive Stop Arm® (PSA) continues to protect students from the risk of stop arm violations, but will now offer enhanced system integration. We are also building more robust AVL/Fleet Management software with added features such as turn-by-turn software that will redirect based on real-time traffic and road [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
