Driver Recruitment and Retention Best Practices: Switzer-Carty Transportation
90% of school districts and school transportation companies across North America have experienced a driver shortage. Strict industry regulations, safety concerns, low wages and sometimes even negative public perception of driving buses keep people from entering the field. At the same time, school transportation faces a high turnover rate [...]
Video Surveillance Footage Review – Best Practices
One of the key pain points when it comes to surveillance footage is the volume of requests for video. Once video has been used to successfully exonerate a driver from a false accusation, or school administrators have used it to solve student discipline issues, these requests can become overwhelming. [...]
How to Choose the Right Digital Video Recorder (DVR) for Your Bus Video Surveillance System
We’re often asked for our advice on how to choose the best digital video recorder for mobile video surveillance applications. With multiple bus capacities and layouts and video coverage requirements, it can be a tricky exercise. To help you make the right choice, we’ve put together a simple guide [...]
Three Reasons You Need a Bus Video Surveillance Policy
Video surveillance systems are a great tool for ensuring student and driver safety on school buses. But having cameras installed on your buses without a well-defined video surveillance policy is a recipe for disaster, leaving your school district open to potential lawsuits or privacy complaints. Here are three reasons [...]
5 Questions Answered about Your Video Surveillance System
When it comes to technical support, we want to help you find the solution to your problem as quickly as possible. We’ve put together the most frequently asked questions and asked Seon’s Service Manager, Rory Halliday, to answer them. The steps and guidelines below will help you avoid issues [...]
The Importance of Real-Time Information for School Bus Fleet Management
In the past technology limitations kept student transportation departments from gaining real-time data about their fleet operations. Today, software can provide immediate insight on what is happening on any vehicle on the road and allow live video streaming from the bus. Those school districts that use fleet management solutions [...]
How Route Optimization Can Make Your School Bus Fleet ‘Greener’
Even though one school bus replaces 36 cars on the road, student transportation systems contribute to global climate change and are still a target for air pollution reductions. This puts a lot of pressure on schools to adopt “green” business practices and decrease their fleet’s carbon footprint. Efficient route [...]
5 Lessons Learned: Using Cameras to Capture School Bus Stop-arm Violations
Over 24 states have now introduced or have pending laws authorizing the use of video cameras on the outside of school buses to identify stop-arm violators. But rolling out a stop-arm camera program can be tricky and time-consuming. So we thought we’d share five lessons we’ve learned from working [...]
Benefits of GIS Routing for School Bus Transportation
With the development and increased affordability of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, transportation professionals all over the world discovered and embraced this tool for effective planning, and managing of transportation systems, that can solve complex route problems in minutes and dramatically increase efficiency. Today we asked our GIS expert, [...]
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 [...]
8 Telltale Signs You Need to Replace Your School Bus Camera System
Cameras have been recording student and driver behavior on school buses for more than a decade, but if you still have some of that older technology on your bus it’s probably time to swap it out. Anyone in school transportation knows that the school bus is not a friendly [...]
6 Proven Steps to a Successful Stop-arm Enforcement Program
In 2013, twenty-nine participating states reported a whopping 85,279 vehicles illegally passing the school bus in a single day, according to an annual survey organized by the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS). Many school districts have started investigating stop-arm camera technology to stem this [...]
Stop-arm Camera Enforcement Program Success Stories (Part 4)
In Part 4 of our stop-arm camera customer success stories we talk with Tom Oestreich, Transportation Director at Bloomington School District in Minnesota, about his stop-arm camera ‘sting’ operation. Part 4: Minnesota School District Works with Law Enforcement to Mount Stop-arm ‘Sting’ Operation Tom ‘Ace’ Oestreich Transportation Director | [...]
Stop-arm Camera Enforcement Program Success Stories (Part 3)
In Part 3 of our stop-arm camera customer success stories we go to Medical Lake, WA to find out about how the school district’s transportation department uses stop-arm camera footage and works with law enforcement to ensure prosecution. Part 3: School District Works With Law Enforcement to Issue Stop-arm [...]
Top 8 Ways Wireless Video Downloading can Actually Save you Money
Installing a bus camera system is an important step towards improved passenger and driver safety, but many organizations find retrieving and managing the video footage more of a challenge than they bargained for. Although you may want to avoid the initial expense of investing in a wireless network infrastructure [...]
Stop-arm Camera Enforcement Program Success Stories (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our stop-arm camera customer success stories we interviewed a Canadian School District in Wainwright, AB, who began testing Seon’s new stop-arm camera system in January of 2013. Transportation Director Chrysti Mannix gave us some insight on how she used footage from her new stop-arm camera [...]
