Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 7, Issue 1, April 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eleven years after the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration establish performance standards for school bus occupant protection systems in all types of collisions, the NTSB removed it from the top-ten list of most wanted [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – After decades of successfully maintaining the status quo, motor coach manufacturers and operators are about to be regulated as part of a concerted approach to improve motorcoach safety.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C – On the eve of a rare non-compliance public hearing, Transportation Collaborative, Inc., a New York school bus company, agreed to complete by September, 15 recalls campaigns dating back to 2001 and to pay a $20,000 fine.

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – In May 2005, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tested the ironically named Sturdibus HD model, built by the U.S. Bus Corporation. The compliance check at the MGA Research Center revealed that the school bus failed three critical elements of crashworthiness: [...]

Reprinted from The Safety Record, Volume 6, Issue 3, June / July 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C.—NHTSA’s regulatory dance card is mighty full for the next five months, with a clutch of substantive rulemakings that includes developing a performance standard for full and partial ejection mitigation, restraints on motor coaches, boosters for older children and a rearward [...]