It's School Bus Safety Week!
This week kicks off National School Bus Safety Week - a special week dedicated to the importance school bus safety. This year's theme is "My School Bus, the safest form of student transportation". While school bus safety is vital every day, it is a great time to remind and reinforce bus safety rules among students and express gratitude for the drivers and staff that work hard to keep kids safe. Over 25 million children ride a school bus to and from school each day.
While we know several schools participate locally in this campaign, we wanted to share a few resources available that provide tools and information to help make School Bus safety a success:
- SchoolBusFacts.com has several resources related to safety and information to help students, parents, and drivers.
- National Safety Council: https://www.nsc.org/home-safety/tools-resources/seasonal-safety/back-to-school/bus
- https://www.napt.org/files/NSBSW/Bus%20Stop%20Safety%20Tips-2016update.pdf for some National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) safety tips
- https://www.americanschoolbuscouncil.org/ educates the public about safety essentials
At McCandless Truck Center, we are proud to offer the IC Bus brand which is the only OEM to offer electronic stability control and ACTIVE collision mitigation standard on all school bus models. IC Bus strives to put safety first in everything that they do to develop and integrate the latest technologies.
Watch videos and learn more about IC Bus Safety
We understand the importance of safety education and training, so we have also supplied access to a few driver training videos and additional resources on our website. Don't forget to check out IC Bus on youtube for additional content, news and training resources.