10/24/2012· Transportation
Buses and Motorcoaches: Competitive Contracting, Exploitation and Impunity
By: Ned Einstein
As most motorcoach community members know, contracting plays a major role in much of our operations - including the 30% of motorcoach service provided to schoolchildren on field trips, as well as the commuter-express service provided under contract to transit agencies.
8/22/2012· Transportation
Negligent Retention and Driver Impunity
By: Ned Einstein
One would think in the Age of Irreversible and Growing Unemployment, employers could phase out their "dead wood" and find some personnel capable of performing their functions competently. Regrettably, bus agencies and companies are generally not among those which do.
10/24/2011· Human Factors
Sleep, Science, and Policy Change
By: Dennis Wylie
Policies can be very difficult to change, and advocates of change who claim a logical or scientific foundation need valid, reliable, and convincing data. An example of the process is the policy of regulating truck drivers' hours of service in order to reduce motor vehicle crashes.
by J. Gregory Sidak, Dan Maldoom, Richard A.D. Marsden, Hal J. Singer
by Harry A. Milman, PhD, Gustave Freeman (Eds.)
by Anthony Chang, MD, et al
