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2008 Press Releases
5/15/08	First Student Announces Potential $1.2 Billion Deal with IC First Student, Inc. has signed an agreement for IC Bus, LLC to supply CE Series school buses through 2010, with further options to purchase additional buses through 2012.
5/14/08	Superior Signals Introduces New LED Safety Strobe Light Replaceable, high-intensity vehicle LED lamp, the Meteorlite ® SY22050, available in high or low profiles with permanent or magnetic mounts.
5/13/08	STA Reports Third Quarter Results Revenue was US $59 million, up 20% from the same period last year, Student Transportation of America reported in its third quarter earnings.
5/12/08	Apollo Video, Zonar Deliver GPS Synchronized Video Surveillance for Santa Monica School Buses Woodinville’s Apollo Video Technology and Seattle’s Zonar Systems have teamed-up to provide a highly accurate GPS synchronized data and video surveillance system to be installed on-board school buses of California’s Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
5/9/08	IC Adds Four New Dealerships IC Bus solidifies its dealer network with the announcement of new dealerships in Tennessee, West Virginia, California and Western Canada.
5/9/08	Onspot Celebrates 20th Anniversary Tire chain company celebrates its 20th year in business.
5/8/08	Forsythe Transportation Wins Coveted Alaska Award Forsythe Transportation was recently recognized for operating the best maintained large bus fleet in the State of Alaska.
5/8/08	Blue Bird Wins Manufacturing Award Blue Bird's LaFayette, Ga., facility won the Shingo Bronze Medallion for Operational Excellence at a conference in Atlanta hosted by Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute.
5/7/08	Learning to Grow Amidst Pricing Pressures Research consultant Frost & Sullivan to issue briefing presentation on the North American school bus telematics industry.
5/7/08	First Student and Thomas Ink $90 Million Deal First Student, Inc.signed a $90 million contract with Thomas Built Buses, Inc., to supply flat-front transit-style buses over the next three years.
5/5/08	VersaTrans Updates Routing Software Suite VersaTrans Solutions released version 9.10 of VersaTrans RP, VersaTrans e-Link, VersaTrans SIF Agent, VersaTrans FleetVision, and VersaTrans TripTracker.
5/1/08	Zonar Wins Award for Innovative Applications in Student Transportation Frost & Sullivan recognizes technology company for products and services that enhance safety, security and fleet efficiency.
5/1/08	Student Transportation Closes Equity Offerings Student Transportation of America today finalized and closed several private placement offerings announced last week valued at approximately $60 million.
4/30/08	Hybrid School Bus Shows 70 Percent Improved Fuel Economy Enova Systems, IC Corporation and Advanced Energy also say new vehicle significantly reduces CO2, Particulate Matter and NOx emissions.
4/29/08	EPA Grant for DC Public School Buses to Reduce Emissions In the next year, students who ride buses to and from the District of Columbia Public Schools will be breathing cleaner air, thanks to a grant presented today from the EPA.
4/26/08	Onspot of North America Obtains ISO 9001 Certification Manufacturer of tire chain system for school buses steps up its quality management system for products and services.
4/22/08	First Student Donates $5,000 During Awareness Month First Student to The Help Group of Sherman Oaks in recognition of National Autism Awareness Month.
4/21/08	Yellow is the New Green Way to Get to School Parents can move to an entirely smaller carbon shoe size by insisting their teenagers take a school bus rather than drive themselves to school.
4/21/08	Top 5 Questions About Green Transportation As the world becomes more vigilant and active about key environmental issues, many industries have renewed commitments to green initiatives.
4/15/08	STA Announces $50 Million of Private Placements Student Transportation of America Ltd. has agreed to sell, on a private placement basis, a total of 8,266,779 common shares for gross proceeds of $50 million to two investors.
4/14/08	Ontario School Buses Get Top Grades Ninety-four per cent of school buses tested during a two-week safety blitz met or exceeded Ontario's tough safety standards.
4/10/08	New Goodyear Tires Boost Performance The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced today that it has bolstered its regional truck-tire product portfolio with two new tires for two very different applications.
4/10/08	Navistar Streamlines Customer Service Fleet customers and service locations throughout North America will get trucks back on the road faster with more predictable costs with the new Service PartnerSM program.
4/9/08	Cummins Fuel System Plan in China Begins Production Cummins opens its first fuel systems manufacturing site outside of North America, the Cummins Fuel Systems Wuhan Plant.
4/9/08	First Student New Orleans Moves into New Facility The First Student school bus transportation facility in New Orleans now has a permanent home.
4/7/08	IC Announces Dealers of the Year IC Bus corporate and dealer executives gather to celebrate success and plan for the coming year during the annual dealer meeting.
4/7/08	Market for Plug in Hybrids Set to Ride on Lithium Ion Batteries Transportation research and consulting firm says market ready to embrace two to three times more energy density.
4/4/08	Thomas Built Develops Hybrid School Bus A prototype of a hybrid Saf-T-Liner C2 school bus is currently being evaluated in North Carolina.
4/4/08	School Fuel Costs Can be Reduced by Release of Software Transfinder Pro version 7.8 offers additional functionality to assist school transporters in routing more efficiently and inexpensively.
4/2/08	Honeywell Releases New Product Catalog Honeywell today released its Video Systems 2008 Product Catalog at ISC West.
4/2/08	Honeywell Expands Camera Line Honeywell today released its Performance Series, the latest addition to the company’s extensive portfolio of security cameras.
4/1/08	Chevin Moves to New Office Fleet management software developer Chevin Fleet Solutions continues to expand in North America and recently opened new offices to better serve its growing North American client base.
4/1/08	FirstGroup Receives Growth Award from Cincinnati USA Partnership FirstGroup America was honored by the Cincinnati USA Partnership with a 2008 Growth Award March 25 during a ceremony at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza.
4/1/08	Cummins Manufactures One Millionth Heavy-Duty Engine The 15-liter ISX diesel engine will be kept on display at the Company ' s Jamestown Engine Plant in Lakewood, N.Y.
3/31/08	Honeywell to introduce NEW EQUIP Series IP Network solutions at ISC West Honeywell launched its family of IP network products composed of cameras, encoders, network video recorders and digital video recorders.
3/28/08	Sure-Lok names Dock 'N' Lock Kickoff Challenge Winner Handi-Equip outsold 34 other distributors of Sure-Lok's new wheelchair docking system to win the company's recent Kickoff Challenge.
3/28/08	Sure-Lok to Fulfill Canadian Orders Directly from U.S. Sure-Lok, Inc. is now accepting, processing and shipping Canadian distributor orders for its wheelchair and occupant securement systems directly from the U.S.
3/27/08	Caterpillar Financing Arm Releases Transportation Industry Outlook FCC Equipment Financing Inc. recently released a comprehensive transportation industry report.
3/27/08	Honeywell to Launch NetAXS Retrofit Board at ISC West Honeywell today announced the newest member of the NetAXS™ family.
3/26/08	Student Trantsportation of Canada Converts Yellow Fleet to 'Green' Student Transportation of Canada expanded its biodiesel fuel program to more than 235 of its fleet of 1,000 yellow school buses operating throughout Ontario.
3/26/08	IC Decreases Prices on Hybrid Electric Bus Less than two years after the first hybrid school bus was unveiled IC Bus has announced a $30,000 to $40,000 price decrease for its hybrid school buses.
3/25/08	Honeywell Releases 4, 8 and 16 Channel HRSD Systemds Sereies DVR Honeywell released its line of HRSD Systems Series embedded digital video recorders.
3/24/08	Honeywell Announces Collaboration with Bold Technologies Honeywell is collaborating with Bold Technologies, LTD to provide new remote management services for customer sites.
3/21/08	Traxis Selects Software From International Decision Systems International Decision Systems, Inc. announced that Traxis Financial Group has selected Rapport and ProFinia.
3/17/08	STA Wins New Hampshire Contract Student Transportation of America's STA-Goffstown location has been awarded an $8.4 million contract to provide transportation services for the Kearsarge Regional School District over the next five years.
3/18/08	Navistar Growth Continues Sustained strength in military and export shipments continue to drive the growth strategy of Navistar International Corporation, the company reported today.
3/17/08	Qualcomm Introduces Mobile Management Service for Local Service Fleets Qualcomm Incorporated announced the first OmniVisionSM Metro service offering, Service Fleet Manager.
3/17/08	Hunter Introduces New Premium Heavy-Duty Alignment Systems Hunter has introduced the WT200 series premium alignment system for heavy-duty trucks.
3/17/08	Booming Demand for Fleet Software Chevin Fleet Solutions continues to thrive in North America and recently added Eveready Industrial Services to their rapidly growing list of North American clients.
3/12/08	Durham School Services Acquires A&E Transport Services Inc. DOWNERS GROVE, IL (March 12, 2008) — Durham School Services, the second largest student transportation provider in the United States, announced the acquisition of A&E Transport Services Inc.
3/12/08	Donaldson Introduces Two Spiracle Crankcase Filtration Systems at 2008 CONEXPO-CON/AGG Show Reduce crankcase emissions with high-efficiency OCV and CCV systems.
3/7/08	Retreaded Tires an Option to Alleviate Record Diesel Costs Tire Retread Information Bureau promotes retreaded tires as a way to reduce dependence on oil, to cut tire purchase costs by up to 50 percent and to experience fewer tire failures than when compared to new tires.
3/7/08	Thermo King Recognized as SYSCO Corporation Supplier of Year Thermo King Corporation was recognized by SYSCO Corporation as its Transportation Capital Equipment 2007 Operations Supplier of the Year.
3/6/08	Navistar Announces 2006 Financial Results In a step toward becoming a current filer with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Navistar International Corporation reported its financial results for 2006.
3/5/08	Donaldson Introduces Next Generation Synteq Media Technology Donaldson Company introduced Synteq XP, the next generation of the "original" Synteq media technology.
2/29/08	School Attorney Peggy Burns Announces Web Site Redesign Added online value of services provided by her company Education Compliance Group.
2/28/08	Navistar Re-Files Suit Against Ford Navistar International Corporation has re-filed a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company for violating a diesel engine contract concerning V-6 and V-8 diesel engines.
2/28/08	STA Completes Canadex Acquisition Student Transportation of America has acquired all of the outstanding common shares of Canadex.
2/26/08	Telenav Unveils New GPS Service Vehicle Tracker^TM uses an embedded GPS modem to provide vehicle location, historical reporting, geofencing, mileage and more.
2/26/08	Melton Technologies Launches New Web Pages New and updated web pages to promote the Horizon fleet management software products as well as to get ready for the launch of its new NetTrac^TM web portal product.
2/21/08	Atlantic Express to Hold Q2 Conference Call Atlantic Express Transportation Corp.will hold a conference call on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 1:30 p.m. (Eastern), to discuss the financial results for the second quarter fiscal year 2008
2/19/08	GM Invests $69 Million in New Plant General Motors Corp. will invest $69 million in a plant to manufacture a new Duramax 6.6-liter V-8 turbo diesel engines.
2/13/08	Cummins Declares Quarterly Common Stock Dividend Cummins Inc. declared a quarterly common stock cash dividend of 12.5 cents per share, payable March 3, 2008 to shareholders of record on Feb. 22, 2008
2/13/08	STA Releases Second Quarter Results Second quarter revenue was up 16.2 percent, the company announced.
2/12/08	Donaldson Second Quarter Conference Call and Website Donaldson Company, Inc. will host a live Webcast of its second quarter fiscal 2008 earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 26.
2/4/08	Michelin Improves its Best-Selling Regional Truck Tire New Michelin XZE2 ® tire unveiled at the Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC) show.
2/4/08	NHSA: President’s Budget Does Not Fix Head Start’s “Billion Broken Promises” Funding Crisis Transportation is one of the many areas that will continue to suffer due to lack in funding.
2/4/08	Krise Bus Service Awarded Van Contract for Pennsylvania District Krise Bus Service, a division of Student Transportation of America, has been awarded the contract to provide van transportation services for the Bangor Area School District.
2/4/08	Cummins Promotes New President of Cummins Filtration Cummins Inc. promoted Pamela Carter to president of Cummins Distribution Business, effective today.
2/4/08	Blue Bird Implements iWarranty Blue Bird Corporation announced utilization of iWarranty software from 4C Solutions, Inc.
2/4/08	Vertical Alliance Launches SafePupilTransport.com Vertical Alliance Group, Inc. introduced an online safety training resource for school bus drivers to help reduce the likelihood of collisions and other incidents.
2/4/08	Tyler Technologies' Acquisitions Expand Presence in Education Market Tyler Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisitions of two software companies, VersaTrans Solutions Incorporated (VersaTrans) and Olympia Computing Company, Inc. d/b/a “Schoolmaster” (Schoolmaster).
2/4/08	New Mobile Software Aims to Improve Safety on School Bus A new mobile software program being offered to school districts nationwide provides additional protection against the risk of children being left unattended on school buses.
1/28/08	STA Realigns Management Student Transportation of America, Ltd. announced is has reorganized its senior management team to prepare for continued strategic growth in the $15 billion school transportation industry.
1/24/08	National Head Start Association Warns of Unfunded Mandates in Reauthorization White House, Congress Criticized for Head Start Cut in Face of $20 Billion in Appropriations Earmarks; $1 Billion Shortfall in Funding Seen Since 2002, $360 Million “Catch Up” Sought in Each of Next Five Years.
1/24/08	Cummins to Expand Presence in Columbus Cummins will add approximately 500 employees over the next two years, and has agreed to lease an office building being built as part of the Commons Mall redevelopment project to meet the expected growth.
1/22/08	STA Acquires Canadex Student Transportation of America announced the completion of its offer for Canadex Resources Limited, owner of one of the largest independent school bus operators in Ontario.
1/18/08	Student Transportation of America Completes Offer for Canadex Resources Limited Student Transportation of America Ltd. has taken-up shares of Canadex Resources Limited.
1/15/08	Enova Announces 2007 Shipments Enova expects to report shipments exceeded 375 electric drive systems for hybrid and/or electric vehicles in the 2007 calendar year, representing $8.7 million in billings
1/14/08	InterMotive Announces Promotions Intermotive promoted Marc Ellison and Dick Collier.
1/11/08	Navman Wireless Releases OnlineAVL2 Navman Wireless North America announced today the next generation of its powerful vehicle tracking and logistics software, OnlineAVL2.
1/11/08	Apollo Video Technology Expands to New Facility Apollo Video Technology has relocated to a new 45,000 square-foot manufacturing and office facility in Woodinville, Wash.
1/10/08	Blue Bird Adds to Marketing Team Blue Bird Corporation is pleased to announce the addition of Fred Montreuil to their marketing team.
1/10/08	Grote Leader Celebrates 30 Year Anniversary Grote Industries' President and Chief Operating Officer, Eric Morris, celebrated his 30 year anniversary with Grote last week.
1/9/08	Sauk Rapids Deploys Chevin's RoadBASE The City of Sauk Rapids, Minn. implemented Chevin Fleet Solutions’ RoadBASE to gain control over rising fleet running costs while allowing real-time access to all of the fleet’s disparate operating data.
1/9/08	Cummins Names Company VP, Emissions Solutions Group Leader Srikanth Padmanabhan has been selected to head Cummins Emission Solutions and has been named a vice president of Cummins Inc.
1/09/08	VersaTrans Contributes to Community During Holiday VersaTrans builds on previous community ventures with two more charitable projects this holiday season.
1/09/08	FirstGroup Releases Interim Management Statement First Student's integration of Laidlaw is progressing well, the company said today.
1/08/08	Stock Acquires North Bay Alouette Bus Line Stock Transportation today announced the acquisition of North Bay Alouette Bus Lines.

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