{"response":{"docs":[{"id":"bcas_bcmss0837_786","title":"Transportation","collection_id":"bcas_bcmss0837","collection_title":"Office of Desegregation Management","dcterms_contributor":null,"dcterms_spatial":["United States, 39.76, -98.5","United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044","United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, 34.76993, -92.3118","United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1994/1996"],"dcterms_description":null,"dc_format":["application/pdf"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":["Little Rock, Ark. : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. Central Arkansas Library System."],"dc_relation":null,"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Office of Desegregation Monitoring records (BC.MSS.08.37)","History of Segregation and Integration of Arkansas's Educational System"],"dcterms_subject":["Little Rock (Ark.)--History--20th century","Little Rock School District","Education--Arkansas","Transportation","School buses","Education--Finance","Educational statistics"],"dcterms_title":["Transportation"],"dcterms_type":["Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["Butler Center for Arkansas Studies"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/bcmss0837/id/786"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":null,"dcterms_medium":["documents (object genre)"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":"\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n   \n\n   \n\n\n   \n\n\n   \n\n\n\n\n   \n\n\n\n\n   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n   \n\n   \n\n \n\n\n   \n\n   \n\n  \n\n\n   \n\n  \n\n \n\n\n   \n\n  \n\n \n\n\n   \n\n  \n\n  \n\nI received JUL 1 4 1994 Little Rock School District Office of Desegregation Monitoring Outsourcing Student Transportation June, 1994 A Business CaseLittle Rock School District Outsourcing of Student Transportation Business Case Executive Summary One of the key issues facing the LRSD today is how to best handle the ever increasing demand for educational dollars while at the same time controlling and/or reducing the District's transportation costs and improving transportation operations and safety. It is often difficult to determine precisely the source of most of the problems within the current transportation system, but it suffices that an extraordinary amount of time has been spent by the Administration in recent months to achieve this end. In fact, a study was requested by the Board for the specific purpose of determining the processes whereby work is accomplished, and making any recommendations to the District for handling any shortcomings uncovered by this research. In their assessment. Coopers and Lybrand, the national accounting firm selected for the work, noted that although several areas were looked at in terms of whether or not they contributed to the successful accomplishment of the District's mission, pupil transportation stood out prominently as a liability. Parent complaints with our student transportation system have become voluminous as a result of poor on-time performance which has occurred because of an aging fleet, increasing accidents, and increasing absenteeism. The current fleet of buses numbers 281. The expected useful life of a gas engine bus is 100,000 miles. The fleet has 128 gas engine buses with over 100,000 miles on them. In the last 3 years, no money has been budgeted for replacement of buses. This circumstance alone has increased the cost and time devoted to maintenance. At times, as many as 51 buses have been out of service for repairs. As major repairs become increasingly more frequent, both labor and parts/materials costs are expected to rise proportionately higher in each succeeding year. In 1993, the District spent $480,804, in 1994 it spent $745,245, and in 1995 it is predicted to reach over $1 million. This escalation in vehicle maintenance costs is consistent with the out-of-service rate, and relates back to the level of performance. With the exception of periods immediately succeeding holidays or extended times of non-service, the District averages approximately 40 out-of-service buses per day. This represents 14% of the entire fleet of 281 vehicles. Since the District has a 10% spare bus ratio, the net result is an insufficient number of vehicles available for service. A reasonable expectation is for no more than 5% of the vehicles to be out-of-service for corrective or preventative maintenance during peak operational periods. Another common performance indicator associated with vehicle maintenance is \"wrecker experience\". In 1993, the District spent $14,390 for 160 wrecker calls. By comparison $25,945 has been spent for 291 wrecker calls to date in 1994. It is predicted that $37,800 will be spent for over 400 calls in the coming year. A more acceptable number for a fleet of this size would be an average wrecker experience of about five per month or 60 per year.Outsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 2 The District has a daily driver absentee rate of 23% . This translates to 48 drivers who are unavailable for service daily. The result of this high level of absenteeism is poor route performance, increased student discipline concerns, and inordinately high costs for drivers re-routed to pick up missed students. The bottom line is that the current operation is, more often than not, besieged with problems stemming from extreme driver absenteeism and the seemingly liberal use of employee sick leave provisions. (Note: the PCSSD currently has no employer sponsored sick leave provision for Bus Drivers and subsequently has many fewer problems in this regard) 1. 2. 3. The alternative solutions considered are listed below: Change nothing. This will not address the problem and will cause costs to grow annually\nFollaio industry standards for equipment replacement, personnel, etc. including a strict schedule for replacing the fleet. This will have a dramatic impact on the current and future budgets. The first year increase to the budget is approximately $800,000. This solution does not maintain reasonable costs. The reasonableness of this alternative is questionable since a $7 million dollar gap exists in the current budget. Outsource the student transportation system to a private concern. Research requested by the Board of Directors indicates that this alternative addresses all aspects of the problem. It includes a budget savings of approximately $1 million dollars over the next three years. Several strategies have been discussed in recent months, but perhaps none is as practicable an idea as that of outsourcing. It is believed that through outsourcing, the District will realize a considerable cost savings and significantly improve the level of service provided to its students and patrons. Though a primary motivation for considering outsourcing is to capture cost savings, it is worth mentioning that other tangible benefits such as reasonable and predictable fleet replacement, lowered driver absenteeism, improved vehicle maintenance, and reduced vehicle accident rate will also be realized. An appreciable improvement in these areas will lead to significantly fewer problems and complaints, as well as establish a more stable and reliable transportation system for future LRSD needs. Alternative 3 is recommended. By the opening of school for 1994-95, on-time performance will increase and parent complaints will decrease while reducing the cost of the student transportation system. This transportation proposal supports the school district goals relating to reducing costs and improving service. The following is a list of the criteria to be used in determining whether or not the problem is solved when this solution is implemented: 1. Parent satisfaction will increase as indicated by a reduction in the number of complaints\n07/14/94 0C_OUTOutsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 3 2. Currently employed drivers will maintain their jobs and benefits\n3. 4. 5. 6. Buses will be on-time more often than they are now\nAccidents decrease\nThe number of buses out-of-service for repairs will decrease\nThe cost of student transportation for the next three years will be less that that projected by LRSD\nand, 7. A schedule for replacement of equipment will be strictly followed. It is critical that the decision be made before July 15th so it may be implemented by the opening of school for 1994-95. If this solution is to be implemented, patrons will need to know as soon as the Board of Directors approves. Awareness must be generated in the community, staff must be notified of the change, and a number of other tasks as noted in the timeline included must be addressed. No additional costs for personnel are necessary to implement this proposal. No one will lose his or her job, however. A savings of 1 million dollars is the estimated benefit over the next three years under this plan. The District will maintain the special education routes and a smaller maintenance facility already available. Even with these costs, outsourcing will reduce overall costs. The money currently allocated will be used to pay for outsourcing. Implementation of this proposal creates a cost-reducing strategy for the 1994-95 budget The following milestones for implementing this proposal are suggested and will be monitored by the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation daily. ______________________Milestone______________________ 1. Proposal presented to the LRSD Board of Directors for approval___________________________________________ 2. Notice to employees Date 7/14/94 Person Williams 3. Include this as a budget reduction strategy 4. Recruitment of current employees 5. Recruitment of new employees 6. Inventory property 7. Finalize contract 8. Relocate Safety and Security Department 9. Property transfer and occupancy________ 10. Complete bus routes__________________ 11. Retrain current employees_____________ 12. Train new employees__________________ 13. Notify patrons________________________ 14. Begin delivery of replacement equipment 15. Complete driver orientation and dry runs 7/15/94 7/15/94 7/18/94 7/18/94 7/21/94 7/21/94 7/2^1/94 7/22/94 7/29/94 8/1/94 8/1/94 8/1/94 8/10/94 8/15/94 Hurley Milhollen Contractor Contractor Neal Williams Neal, Eaton Neal, Milhollen Montgomery Contractor Contractor Wagner Contractor Contractor 07/14/94 BC_OU1Outsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 4 Background One of the key issues facing the LRSD today is how to best handle the ever increasing demand for educational dollars while at the same time controlling and/or reducing the District's transportation costs and improving transportation operations and safety. It is often difficult to determine precisely the source of most of the problems within the current transportation system, but it suffices that an extraordinary amount of time has been spent by the Administration in recent months to achieve this end. In fact, a study was requested by the Board for the specific purpose of determining the processes whereby work is accomplished, and making any recommendations to the District for handling any shortcomings uncovered by this research. In their assessment. Coopers and Lybrand, the national accounting firm selected for the work, noted that although several areas were looked at in terms of whether or not they contributed to the successful accomplishment of the District's mission, pupil transportation stood out prominently as a liability. The District expends an inordinate amount of time and energy focusing on Support Services such as transportation. Educational issues often take a back seat to transportation operations because of the time required to respond to these concerns. Often these issues are the focus of media attention which results in poor public relations. The District's transportation operations have frequently been in the media this year. In fact, it was the lead article on the front page of the November 7, 1993 Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Many of these stories have revolved around labor and safety issues and poor operational performance. The accuracy and voracity of the stories is not as important as the resulting poor public perception of the operations, and the fact that these \"crises\" are draining management's attention away from the primary goal of educating children. Service in the Little Rock School District has been the subject of much debate. According to a recent study only 69% of the buses are \"on-time.\" At present the district is not employing the best \"state-of-the-market techniques\" for managing and providing student transportation services. The Little Rock School District is facing a $7.2 million budget deficit for the 94-95 academic year. Management in the Transportation Department is concerned that the fleet is aging and a large proportion of it must be replaced. For the last several years, the District has been unable to meet its targeted goal of replacing 10% of its buses per year. As a result replacing the aged fleet now represents a prodigious capital expense which the District virtually cannot incur in a single budget year. To return to an acceptable fleet replacement cycle, the District would have to expend approximately $1 million per year over the next six years. or/iv^ 0c_ouTOutsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 5 Problem Definition Parent complaints with our student transportation system have become voluminous as a result of poor on-time performance which has occurred because of an aging fleet, increasing accidents, and increasing absenteeism. The current fleet of buses numbers 281. The expected useful life of a gas engine bus is 100,000 miles. The fleet has 128 gas engine buses with over 100,000 miles on them. In the last 3 years, no money has been budgeted for replacement of buses. This circumstance alone has increased the cost and time devoted to maintenance. At times, as many as 51 buses have been out of service for repairs. To bring the fleet up-to-date requires a replacement schedule that meets certain criteria. The standards we have used are based on type of engine and miles of use. Those parameters require that buses used to service the District be replaced as follows: Gasoline powered buses: Any such bus that exceeds seven years of age or 100,000 miles at the start of any school year. Diesel powered buses: Any such bus that exceeds 10 years of age or 150,000 miles at the beginning of any school year. Using these parameters, along with the fleet's current mileage as of the close of school in June, 1994, a replacement schedule for the District's current vehicles School Year 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2003-2004 Buses 128 29 22 18 10 1 25 was established. Listed here is the number of buses that will need to be replaced prior to the start of each Replacement Schedule of Buses Based on 1994 Fleet \u0026amp; RFP Standard corresponding school year. Fundamental to the success of District 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 128 +$900,000 in 1994-95 to meet standard transportation operation is improving the level of service in the ^rea of vehicle 94-95 29 22 18 10 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 1 0 99- 2000 School Year 0 2000- 2001 2001- 2002 0 2002- 25 a 2003- 2003 . 2004 a fleet of 281 buses with only eight mechanics. maintenance. Because of the age and condition for the existing fleet it has become necessary to add additional maintenance staff and to service the older high mileage buses much more frequently. The District currently services The workload has increased dramatically over previous years because heavy maintenance previously covered under 07/14/94 BC.OUT Outsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 6 warranty must now be performed in-house. In fact, a recent study of the operation conducted by Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc. yielded this finding: The high ratio of one maintenance person to 44 vehicles is unsatisfactory. With many of these vehicles having over 100,000 miles on them, the need for quality preventative maintenance is crucial. ThLs is not presently possible and Mr. Viner and his staff are doing an excellent job of keeping the fleet running. Add to this the fact that no new buses are being bought this year, the situation is going to become more difficult to manage. Mr. Viner recently had one mechanic resign citing stress and the heavy maintenance workload as the reason. A replacement has not yet been hired, but even with this individual replaced, the bus vs. mechanic ratio is not consistent with national standards. As major repairs become increasingly more frequent, both labor and parts/materials costs are expected to rise proportionately higher in each succeeding year. In 1993, the District spent $480,804, in 1994 it spent $745,245, and in 1995 it is predicted to reach over $1 million. This escalation in vehicle maintenance costs is consistent with the out-of-service rate, and relates back to the level of performance. With the exception of periods immediately succeeding holidays or extended times of non-service, the District averages approximately 40 out-of-service buses per day. This represents 14% of the entire fleet of 281 vehicles. Since the District has a 10% spare bus ratio, the net result is an insufficient number of vehicles available for service. A reasonable expectation is for no more than 5% of the vehicles to be out-of-service for corrective or preventative maintenance during peak operational periods. Parts/Materials/Supplies $1,200,000 $1,000,000 $800,000 $600,000 $400,000 $200,000 $0 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 Another common performance indicator associated with vehicle maintenance is \"wrecker experience\". In 1993, the District spent $14,390 for 160 wrecker calls. By comparison $25,945 has been spent for 291 wrecker calls to date in 1994. It is predicted that $37,800 will be spent for over 400 calls in the coming year. A more acceptable number for a fleet of this size would be an average wrecker experience of about five per month or 60 per year. 07/14/94 BC_OVr Outsourcing Student t ransportation Business Case 7 Wrecker Experienc $40,000 $30,000 $20,000 $10,000 $0 299 400 160 60 I 60 1992-93 1994-95 M LRSD Wrecker Calls 1993-94 Normal Wrecker Calls Several factors are used in determining performance levels for transportation services. One of the leading indicators of poor performance is driver absenteeism. Because unwarranted absenteeism harms the program for children, wastes the District's scarce resources, and works an undue hardship on employees who maintain good attendance records, it is considered to be a causal factor, and a fairly accurate indicator of the unsatisfactory performance level of the current operation. The District has a daily driver absentee rate of 23% . This translates to 48 drivers who are unavailable for service daily. The result of this high level of absenteeism is poor route performance, increased student discipline concerns, and inordinately high costs for drivers re-routed to pick up missed students. The bottom line is that the current operation is, more often than not, besieged with problems stemming from extreme driver absenteeism and the seemingly liberal use of employee sick leave provisions. (Note: the PCSSD currently has no employer sponsored sick leave provision for Bus Drivers and subsequently has many fewer problems in this regard) Vehicle accident rate is commonly used as the indicator when assessing the level of safe operation of the driver, the conditions in which operations are performed, and Quality of Perftmiance Accidents per Million Miles the condition of the vehicles operated. Preventable accidents harm students and others, waste financial resources, and lead to unnecessary down-time for equipment In 1993, tite District had 68 such accidents while logging over 3.9 million miles\nin 1994, there were 54 preventable accidents with the fleet traveling just over 4.3 million miles. That translates into 17.4 accidents per million miles and 12.5 accidents million miles respectively. per By contrast, the prospective contractor has an record established, documented safety of only 8.8 preventable 07/14/M BC_OUr Outsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 8 accidents per million miles. Typically, a high vehicle accident rate manifests in increases for both Workers Compensation and Property and Casualty insurance costs. Analysis of three previous years claims for Workers Compensation indicates an extreme upward trend in the frequency of claims and the cost per claim to the District. In 1992 there were 31 Workers Compensation claims processed for the Transportation Department at a cost of $66,439. In 1993 there were 42 claims processed at a cost of $169,587, and by March of 1994, there had been some 45 claims totaling $57,662. Bus driver claims account for 65% of all claims by district employees. The composite data indicates an urgent need for improved driver training and the initiation of a vigorous and sustained safety awareness program. That has not been possible in LRSD because of the elimination of supervisory/training position by budget cuts. Regarding these same issues, the Gallagher study referred to previously provided the following recommendations: 93-12-22. The Director of Transportation should develop, implement and manage an aggressive Loss Prevention Program. Supervisors and employees must be held accountable for their actions. Fair, Swift and appropriate discipline or corrective measures must be taken to handle unsatisfactory conditions prior to them becoming uncontrollable. 93-12-23. No driver should be allowed to operate a vehicle without first, having been trained in defensive driving. AU drivers should after initial training, attend annual defensive driving training including, hands-on evaluations. While the foregoing factors taken individually do not threaten the collapse of transportation, taken together, these signs reveal a dysfunctional system. Consider the comments of the Coopers \u0026amp; Lybrand staff in their findings at the transportation terminal: Coopers \u0026amp; Lybrand spent two days talking with customers and employees of the Little Rock School District's Transportation Department. While almost aU of the people we talked to spoke favorably of the department's operation relative to the constraints placed upon it, aU indicated a concern that something needed to be done to ensure that things didn't get worse. All interviewees, customers and employees alike, expressed a concern that the department was beginning to show signs of stress, like cracks in a dam, and many were fearful of the department's future. It is C\u0026amp;L's opinion that these concerns and signs are real. We also feel that these symptoms reflect the fact that the current mode of operation was conceived long ago without any vision of the desegregated , inner city environment in which the department now operates. What is frightening is that the interwoven complexities of this environment combined with the bankrupt methods of the past have created a semi-self defeating situation that cannot be escaped without vigorous redesign of the process. Analysis of Alternatives Solutions were discussed with a committee representing parents, principals, support staff, and administrators in the LRSD. Upon careful consideration, several 07/14/94 K.OUTOutsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 9 aspects of the problem emerged. These must be addressed to have a viable solution to the problem. They are parent complaints, on-time performance, aging fleet. increasing accidents, increasing absenteeism, and costs. 1. 2. 3. The alternative solutions considered are listed below: Change nothing. This will not address the problem and will cause costs to grow annually\nFollow industry standards for equipment replacement, personnel, etc. including a strict schedule for replacing the fleet. This will have a dramatic impact on the current and future budgets. The first year increase to the budget is approximately $800,000. This solution does not maintain reasonable costs. The reasonableness of this alternative is questionable since a $7 million dollar gap exists in the current budget. Outsource the student transportation system to a private concern. Research requested by the Board of Directors indicates that this alternative addresses all aspects of the problem. It includes a budget savings of approximately $1 million dollars over the next three years. Several strategies have been discussed in recent months, but perhaps none is as practicable an idea as that of outsourcing. It is believed that through outsourcing, the District will realize a considerable cost savings and significantly improve the level of service provided to its students and patrons. Though a primary motivation for considering outsourcing is to capture cost savings, it is worth mentioning that other tangible benefits such as reasonable and predictable fleet replacement, lowered driver absenteeism, improved vehicle maintenance, and reduced vehicle accident rate will also be realized. An appreciable improvement in these areas will lead to significantly fewer problems and complaints, as well as establish a more stable and reliable transportation system for future LRSD needs. Recotnmendation Alternative 3 is recommended. 3. Outsource the student transportation system to a private concern. Research requested by the Board of Directors indicates that this alternative addresses all aspects of the problem. It includes a budget savings of approximately $1 million dollars over the next three years. Proposals have been requested from private sector transportation companies on this alternative. Of the responses received, only Mayflower Contract Services, Inc. proposed to contract the LRSD student transportation system as specified. Details appear in the proposal submitted by the contractor. 07/14/94 BC_OUrOutsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 10 Objective By the opening of school for 1994-95, on-time performance will increase and parent complaints will decrease while reducing the cost of the student transportation system. This transportation proposal supports the school district goals relating to reducing costs and improving service. The following is a list of the criteria to be used in determining whether or not the problem is solved when this solution is implemented: 1. Parent satisfaction will increase as indicated by a reduction in the number of complaints\n2. Currently employed drivers will maintain their jobs and benefits\n3. Buses will be on-time more often than they are now\n4. Accidents decrease\n5. The number of buses out-of-service for repairs will decrease\n6. The cost of student transportation for the next three years will be less that that projected by LRSD\nand, 7. A schedule for replacement of equipment will be strictly followed. Impact Analysis The district is aware of the concern that exists among the bus drivers. The concern expressed has focused on job security. Those who have appeared in protest are those who will remain with the district anyway. The district will maintain special education routes and therefore about 80 drivers. The proposal for outsourcing requires that those currently employed by the LRSD be employed by the contractor. Negatives 1. The transition to a private contractor will require extra time for district administrators to turn over the operation which will no doubt have unpredictable inconveniences\n2. Bus driver reaction will be strong against the decision for fear of the loss of their jobs\nPositives 1. Parent satisfaction will increase as indicated by a reduction in the number of complaints\n2. Currently employed drivers will maintain their jobs and benefits\n07/14/94 BC.OUrOutsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 11 3. Buses will be on-time more often than they are now\n4. Accidents will decrease\n5. The number of buses out-of-service decrease\nfor repairs will 6. The cost of student transportation for the next three years will be less that that projected by LRSD\nand, 7. A schedule for replacement of equipment will be strictly followed providing students with badly needed new buses. Quality of Performance Bus Availability, Driver Absenteeism, Not-on-Time Buses 30% 2S% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Risks The risks of not implementing this solution is increasing costs to the district, increasing complaints by patrons, and a generally poor image of the district's transportation system. The risks of implementation of this solution are the unfounded presumptions that the costs will be greater than calculated and people will lose their jobs. Transition will strain our current management capability given the delays in implementation of outsourcing when considering increased activities associated with the start up of the school year. Timing It is critical that the decision be made before July 15th so it may be implemented by the opening of school for 1994-95. If this solution is to be implemented, patrons will need to know as soon as the Board of Directors approves. Awareness must be generated in the community, staff must be notified of the change, and a number of other tasks as noted in the timeline included must be addressed. Resources Anu lysis Personnel No additional costs for personnel are necessary to implement this proposal. No one will lose his or her job, however. 07/14/94 8C_OUT Outsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 12 Financial A savings of 1 million dollars is the estimated benefit over the next three years under this plan. The District will maintain the special education routes and a smaller V Three Year Bottom Line Cost Comparison LRSD V. Contractor   LRSD  Contractor -$1,018,614 savings over 3 years $10,000,000 T $9,000,000 $8,000,000 $7,000,000 $6,562,449 $6,463,981 $7,327,775 $6,997,680 $7,760,438 \u0026gt;7,170,387 F $6,000,000 $5,000,000 $4,000,000 $3,000,000 $2,000,000 $1,000,000 $0 94-95 95-96 96-97 School Year maintenance facility already available. Even with these costs, outsourcing will reduce overall costs (See Attachment 1). Revenue Source The money currently, allocated will be used to pay for outsourcing. Implementation of this proposal creates a cost-reducing strategy for the 1994-95 budget. Force Field Analysis Primary supporters of this proposal will be those directly affected by the solution  patrons and administrators within the District The Board of Directors and administration of the school district are well aware of the improvement this solution will bring for student service and cost savings. KJXJTOutsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 13 Those most opposed to the solution will be bus drivers who fear losing their jobs and those who fear private sector managing public sector services. The negative reaction may be reduced by keeping everyone informed as the decision is made and implemented. The strongest statement in favor of outsourcing is that costs will be reduced while improving service. General Implementation Plan The following milestones for implementing this proposal are suggested and will be monitored by the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation daily. Milestone 1. Proposal presented to the LRSD Board of Directors for approval 2. Notice to employees 3. Include this as a budget reduction strategy 4. Recruitment of current employees 5. Recruitment of new employees 6. Inventory property 7. Finalize contract 8. Relocate Safety and Security Department 9. Property transfer and occupancy 10. Complete bus routes 11. Retrain current employees 12. Train new employees 13. Notify patrons 14. Begin delivery of replacement equipment 15. Complete driver orientation and dry runs Date 7/14/94 7/15/94 7/15/94 7/18/94 7/18/94 7/21/94 7/21/94 7/21/94 7/22/94 7/29/94 8/1/94 8/1/94 8/1/94 8/10/94 8/15/94 Person Williams Hurley Milhollen Contractor Contractor Neal Williams Neal, Eaton Neal, Milhollen Montgomery Contractor Contractor Wagner Contractor Contractor Jz/IVM SC_OUTOutsourcing Student Transportation Business Case 14 Attachmetit 1 Comparison of LRSD costs to Mayflower Contract Services, Inc. Costs EXPENSE CATEGORY Salaries Fringe Benefits Purchased Services Materials /Supplies Capital Outlay Other Objects SUBTOTAL Budget Yr 1994-95 3,679,789 800,604 676,500 964,664 11,000 1,000 6,133,557 Budget Yr 1995-96 3,790,183 809,049 686,648 984,041 11,000 1,000 6,281,921 Budget Yr 1996-97 3,985,519 852,142 700,381 1,003,722 11,000 1,000 6,553,764 TOTAL 11,455,491 2,461,795 2,063,529 2,952,427 33,000 3,000 18,969,242 Fleet Insurance Workers Compensation Fleet Disposal Bus Payment SUBTOTAL 512,680 236,473 537,000 522,933 243,565 533,392 251,357 1,286,153 1,155,391 1,921,889 1,317,297 2,102,046 1,569,005 731,395 537,000 2,472,688 5,310,088 TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE 7,419,710 8,203,810 8,655,810 24,279,330 Mayflower Proposal Special Education TOTAL 6,463,981 857,261 7,321,242 6,997,680 876,035 7,873,715 7,170,387 895,372 8,065,759 20,632,048 2,628,668 23,260,716 SAVINGS 98,468 330,095 590,051 1,018,614 Regular/M-to-M Special Ed______ TOTAL 6,562,449 857,261 7,419,710 7,327,775 876,035 8,203,810 7,760,438 895,372 8,655,810 21,650,662 2,628,668 24,279,330 0C.OUTDate: December 2, 1994 To: Judge Wright Promt m Brown Subject Informal Review of the LRSD November 16, 1994 Filing: Transportation Business Case, Incentive School Spanish Program, and Incentive School Theme Implementation. My staff and 1 have reviewed the submissions which the LRSD made last month to satisfy requirements of your October 24, 1994 Order. Our brief, very informal, and private assessment of each document follows below in three separate sections. If you should want us to write up a formal review, we will be happy to do so. 1. Transportation Business Case This case satisfies the mandate that the district provide a business case to explain how it will spend the $1.3 million which it appropriated for transportation in the 1994-95 budget. Both Bill and Melissa spent some time reviewing rough drafts of this business case with Russ Mayo (its author), posing questions and suggesting changes. Russ took some of those suggestions, but not all. For example, we suggested that the district think long-range and expand the business case to encompass transportation needs beyond the current school year. Other than the chart showing an extended bus replacement schedule, the proposal doesnt include such long-term planning. The business case only covers a solution and expenditures for the current budget year, 1994-95. Overall, the business case is acceptable. While several areas could be improved, it is better than most cases prepared by the LRSD. The case is weak in its alternative analysis, because it doesnt really address the pros and cons of each alternative identified, much less determine the cost and impact. It is obvious that this case was prepared after the failure of the outsourcing move, and as a justification of the only remaining option available at the time. \\2. Incentive School Spanish Program. Overall, the information in this report is poorly presented and appears to have been slapped together hastily. The shoddy report would matter little, if the Spanish program itself had any merit. This filing is just the latest installment in the districts attempt to shirk the commitments in its desegregation plan. The comments below are organized by the report page number and section. Page 1: (II) Rightsell did not begin any type of program until after the October 24, 1994 order. The report asserts that the principals believe the existing program, included in this document, is a way to provide meaningful foreign language experiences to their students.\" Unfortunately the report in sum does not convince us that children are receiving quality, meaningful foreign language instruction. Pages 1-2: (III) The days and times Spanish is offered varies among the schools, as does the total amount of instruction the students receive. At Franklin and Rockefeller, the amount of instructional time is \"at the discretion of the teacher\" and unspecified, although Rockefeller also adds 45 minutes once a week during extended day for both primary and intermediate students. Mitchell and Rightsell students get a 1.5 hour block once a week, and Garland students get 1/2 hour three times a week. Page 2: (IV) The report appears to be cobbled together from several sources (perhaps separate reports from each incentive school principal?). The summaries of the types of instruction offered at each school vary widely, from a comprehensive description of the satellite program in use at Garland to a terse sentence regarding the extended day program at Mitchell. Page 3: (V) Whoever wrote this report has no concept of the meaning of FTE. The district reports that at least one FTE is assigned to Spanish instruction at each incentive school. The report indicates that sixteen FTEs teach Spanish at Rockefeller. The author is quite confused. He or she has listed the number of persons involved in delivering instruction as an FTE when it is clear from the other documentation that no teacher in the incentive schools spends the equivalent of full-time employment teaching Spanish. Even at Franklin, the teacher assigned to the immersion class spends only a portion of the school day instructing in Spanish. (Vll) The descriptions of the language labs are inadequate and unenlightening. After reading the vague mumbo jumbo offered as a description of how the labs are used to reinforce instruction, you can almost hear the LRSD administration sing, \"How I Love to Dance the Little Sidestep.\" 2The district has offered no information to give the reader a picture of how the language labs enhance instruction. Could this be because the labs and the instruction continue to be virtually non-existent? The submission also uses the term \"FLES approach\". The acronym FLES is never spelled out, nor is the approach defined, so we have no idea what it means. (Vlll) All of the incentive schools restrict Spanish instruction to selected grade levels. Franklin and Mitchell are the worst offenders, offering Spanish only at the first grade. None of e schools provide Spanish instruction for children in Idndergarten or the program for four-year- olds. Page 4: (IX) (X) (XI) At 176 participants. Garland claims the highest number of students taking Spanish. The totals drop markedly for the other schools, down to only 14 students at Rightsell. While only first graders at Franklin and Mitchell receive Spanish instruction, no first graders are involved in the program at Garland and Rockefeller. This section dealing with the learning objectives is unrealistic. Given the limited amount of time devoted to instruction in Spanish, it is unlikely that students will develop \"skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing the Spanish language.\" The second objective listed is so esoteric that we wonder if it was included only to show off an obscure vocabulaiy word. According to item two, students will \"become familiar with Spanish syllabaries.\" It is incomprehensible that the anonymous author of this report would be aware of the word \"syllabaries\" and be unaware that the plural of medium is media (listed as mediums on page 3). This entire section is pretty weak also. A couple of the schools (Mitchell and Franklin) worked Total Physical Response into their blurb, but most of the information offered does not begin to address the requirements from e court order. None of the schools mention any interaction with native speakers, and any ties to the LRSD curriculum are very tenuous. Page 5: The final page of the report includes quite a bit of information on the Spanish immersion program offered in one first grade class at Franklin. The report claims that the immersion program has been fully implemented. We were going to make an unannounced site visit there on Wednesday, November 30, 1994, but tragically, the principals teenage son committed suicide, so we have postponed our visit until after the first of the year. 'We will withhold comment on the immersion program for now, and furnish a written surrimary of our findings within a few days of the visit. Our preliminary information on the program is that it is very poor and far from being fully implemented. 33. Incentive School Theme Implementation This submission is sadly inadequate in addressing the questions posed by the Court in the October order. The descriptions of programs are vague and dont provide any new information beyond what we had gained through our 1993-94 incentive school monitoring visits. If their \"update\" is accurate, our report is still timely. Franklin 1. The Communications Technology theme is poorly defined. The reader is told that the theme is \"the science of utilizing tools, machines, materials, and processes for the purpose of communicating.\" (p. 1). That definition has no meaning as it relates to what actually students do. No examples were provided. 2. There is no specific description of how the theme concepts have been integrated into the curriculum. 3. On page 2, the Franklin theme is described as \"operable\" (like a cancer!), but there is an indication that full implementation is not complete. No implementation timeline is provided, as requested by the Court. The excuse given for slowed implementation is that this is the first full year of employment for the theme specialist\nhowever, this is not the first theme specialist to hold the position since implementation began two years ago. Garland 1. The Garland summary describes computer-based instruction. The report does not specify how Garlands approach differs significantly from other schools which use computers as learning tools. 2. The full Garland theme is \"Multimedia Technology and Educational Research,\" but the theme description provides no mention of educational research. 3. Garlands theme is described as needing to be phased in due to high costs. A specific timeline isnt provided as requested by the Court, nor are the anticipated costs which make a phase-in necessaiy. 4. Full implementation of the theme is to occur in phases \"pending the outcome of initial phase' (p. 4). The submission does not explain what this means. 11 Mitchell 1. If the description is accurate, the Creative Dramatics theme is not an integrated part of e curriculum. The specialty teachers (art, music, physical education) are the vehicles for delivering the theme. Based on this description, full theme integration is not occurring at Mitchell. 42. The theme is described as \"operable\" (new favorite word at LRSD?), but needing refinement. No indication is given as to the type of refinement that will be necessary and the timeline is missing. Rightsell 1. Rightsells theme description is the only one which highlights the role of the classroom teacher in infusing the curriculum. By the way. Rightsell was the only incentive school to supply an infused curriculum guide during our 1993-94 monitoring visit. 2. The explanation of the mass media component of the theme is quite weak. 3. With the recent installation of closed-circuit wiring for closed-circuit television, it appears that theme implementation is complete. Rockefeller 1. It is our conviction that computers are a tool, not a legitimate theme. We see very little in the Rockefeller description to convince us that the school is actually emphasizing computer science.\" While Rockefeller may have more classroom-based computers than the average, we havent observed any new skills or uses that set the school apart from other schools which are effectively using computers as an instructional tool. 2. Rockefeller is the only incentive school at which, the report states, theme implementation is complete. 507/18/94 09:17 501 324 2032 L R School Dlst ES 002/002 i' ODM CJ^ hy\nr/. Little Rock School District NEWS RELEASE July 18,1994 For more information: Dina Teague, 324-2020 SPECIAL BOARD VW 4Ji Sai :DULED The Board of Directors of the Little Rock School District wiU hold a special meeting this evening at 5:00 p, Markham. 'm. in the administration building at 810 W. Board members will receive a business case on transportation outsourcing. The Board will also meet with parents from Williams Basic Skills Magnet Elementary School. ### 810 West Markham .B4081701 1030/08/24 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT VISIT INTRODUCTION * Thanks for the time. * I have put some questions together. I know you are new and many not have all the answers. That's ok I don't know much about school bus transportation, so foi^ive dumb questions GENERAL What have you done to get ready for school opening Monday? Routing has been completed, and the last minute changes are being added. Should be completed in time. Courtesy stops are already in the system. Drivers have been hired, and have completed in-service. 96% bus availability as of Friday morning. * What is your overall assessment? * Wliat are the weak areas? Getting enough bus drivers onboard. Getting enough buses running. Position control match to the budget was a joke. Had to spend a lot of time correcting the position control to find out who was in a slot and who had gone. Monthly Manpower report stopped in January, so no adjustments until at least that far back. Cheatam wants to look at how the extra runs are allocated to drivers\na few of them get all the good stuff. She wants to look at the \"distribution of the Wealth.\" She would also like to change from piece work pay to hourly pay. \\ - What major problems do you anticipate? 1Breakdowns. The buses are getting old, and will breakdown. * Wliat are the strong areas? Cheatham has feedback that says this was the best in-service the drivers have ever had. Everyone seem to think she is reasonable. - What areas do you have greatest confidence? ************************************************************************* ROUTING * Take me through the process of setting up new routes for the year. Jayne Agnes is the main routing person. She is really excited about her job and being able to expand the use of the system. One of the main benefits of having Mayo there was his being able to walk through things with us. There were several technology issues where passing a tape vice hardcopy would speed things up. He initiated action on them right there. Step 1. Transportation gets a tape from data processing of certain data elements of the student database. The first tape is generated in the early spring (F/M/A). The second tape is generated in May/June, and this is the tape which is actually used for routing. Step 2. Once the routing tape is loaded at Transportation, they run the Batch Census Edit. This is just a student name and address match routine which verifies the student file, and generates an exception report. This report is worked through most of the summer on constant clean-up. Step 3. From the report the student records are actually corrected. Step 4. Once the record is clean and entered into the system, the student shows up on the map as a \"white' square. Step 5. The operator then looks for the white squares and assigns a stop. If there is not an existing stop within the range, then the operator creates a new stop. From this stop generation, the operator then ties into routes. This process takes about a month since it involves numerous human decisions. Step 6. Once the regular Little Rock students have been worked from the tape, then M- to-M's are worked\nthen changes to assigned stops\nthen wants. New registrations are also worked in here. New registrations are written up on a form and then keyed into the student file at student assignment. The form is then sent to Transportation where the data is re-keyed into the Ecotran system. NOTE: we are working on data transfer here this exchange. Step 7. Once all the routing is done, the routes are printed and distributed. This has to take place before driver training can be completed. A major problem appears to be that Transportation does not have online access to the student database. Therefore, they do not have the capability to look up students in the system for researching problems. This really limits them. Cheatham is trying to get that fixed. 2* Wlien was this routing completed? The major part of the routing was completed over a week ago and before the driver training. Changes and some new registrations are still being worked. They really cannot complete the routing until the August registration results are loaded into the system and transferred.  How are registration changes cranked into the routing? All changes, registration and otherwise, are keyed into the system manually from forms mailed over from student assignment. Prior to school starting, Jane was getting about 50-1- forms a day. It was obvious to Mayo and Mooney that this student update data was being entered into the student file by student assignment and then re-keyed by Transportation. Data Processing could cut a tape of the file after updating by Student Assignment, pass the new copy to Transportation, which could upload the new file into the Ecotrans system. This would save time, re-keying, and errors. - Wlten is that done? As soon after registration as possible. The August registration holds up the processing.  What is the status of the student address base? Special education student information comes from that unit, and is still passed across manually on forms. - When was it last updated? The Transportation file was updated with the student file information by a June tape containing May data. There has been no updated data added during the June/Present timeframe. The best data they have on Little Rock kids is spring data. - What is the accuracy? Not very good. There has been no updated data added during the June/Present timeframe. The best data they have on Little Rock kids is spring data. * Last update from Ecotran MapNet. - When was the last update? (30 days) It was in the spring, and that was a software upgrade. They are at a deadend due to hardware constraints. They expressed a need for a hardware upgrade. - Did you just add stops, or did Ecotrans re-route? 3LRSD actually can do the routing from their terminal. LRSD personnel have learned a lot of new functions from the system. * Are the routing reports generated here, or at Ecotran? The routing reports are generated at the LRSD. Ecotran does not do much for them anymore, except the training. - When did you get them? (2 weeks) About a week ago. - Wliat are in the reports? Not using many of the features of Ecotran. It can do a lot more than they have used it for in the past. Jane has learned some new things just this week. Cheatam wants to send her to school on the system after things settle down.  When were the stop locations identified? See steps above.  When were students assigned to stop locations? See steps above.  How do you tell the drivers about their routes? They start getting routing sheets at the in-service the week before school. All drivers are required to make at least one practice run prior to school starting on Monday. * How do you get the word to parents about their kids' stop? Mail out. * How do you handle special stop requests? They are worked into the routing after the regular stops/routing is set up. Courtesy stops are set up, if possible. There is one bus that is all courtesy stops due to the neighborhood and traffic patterns. Athletic events are arranged separately by the coaches. Field trips are arranged separately by the teachers. The special runs are parcelled out to the regular drivers, if possible. * Wliat percent of drivers have completed practice runs? Almost all had completed at least one practice run by Friday morning. Some were still going to make the run on Saturday and Sunday. Transportation was going to be open for them. 4All drivers are required to make at least one practice run prior to Monday school start. Many drivers have made more than one practice run. They can make as many as they want. All will complete the practice by Monday. They have to make the run forward and backwards. The routing sheets only print in the forward direction\nthe drivers have to read the routing sheet backwards for the afternoon trip. Routes were bid on Tuesday before the opening of school. Will now be bid each nine weeks in order to add some stability. - What was your target? 100% - Why the difference? * Are their any major route blockages? Six or seven\nnothing major. They have identified a few problems, but they are fixing them now. Some drivers have come back from practice and made some suggestions on swapping stops between routes for better function. - Where? Asher and Cantrell. No mention made of the 3rd street overpass being out. Mooney uses it as an example.  How many routes will you service? 314 regular, 45 M-to-M, and some special ed.\n359+ * How many runs will you make? Runs and routes are the same to them.  Wliat is your longest run? 26+ miles\nM-to-M across the county. * When is your first pickup in the morning? 0614 - Wlien is your last arrival in morning? 0900 - When is your last regular drop in the afternoon? 1900, not counting some specials and late events. 5Last year they had one student that was an M-to-M from the county that was playing football on a road trip. They had to have a single bus for this one kid, and the bus did not get back to the barn until 0400. ***************************************************************** BUSES * Buses Mainly gas. Some getting changed out to diesel. They have 128 buses that are over the 120k mile cycle for replacement. The outsourcing contractor was going to replace these with newer buses, but now they are stuck with them. - How many total in your fleet? 281 - How many required for the day? 260, not counting special requests. - What will you have available Monday? Will have sufficient buses. 12 are in the shop now, meaning 96% availability for the fleet. That is pretty good.  What is the status of your communications equipment? Ok for Monday, but needs some long term work. Cheatham is looking into tying into the new city system (a $4M system). If they can do that, there will be some hardware changes required, but have many other valuable features...911, MEMS both direct. Replacement buses - How many did you replace this year? Only replacements were the state buses for M-to-M. No regular buses were replaced. - Do you have any on order? - What impact will the Ward fire have on you? 6DRIVERS * How many drivers on your allowance? The allowance is 331. About 300 is a good average to have onboard. They currently have 290 hired. Need to add about 30 more to the pool. Rock bottom minimum is 260\nsame as the buses required for the day. - How many required for the day? 260-1- - How many do you have onboard? 290  What kind of training have the drivers had this summer? They had a two day in-service last week. The in-service covers the following: personnel work changes, policies and procedures, updating license, new drivers get defensive driving workshop, first aid, special ed students, emergencies. All drivers are required to take the defensive driving course sometime during the year\nnew hires must take it at the orientation inservice. All drivers must attend this session. - How many have been trained? All will get it. - What kind of follow-up training do you have for those that have not been trained? They have supervisors for OJT, and there are some follow-up in-service during the year. Defensive driving is a good example. - What kind of training has been provided on discipline on the buses? Covered in the in-service during small group workshops. - Did the drivers provide any input into the training? Yes they have done some. They asked for and will get more information on the radios, and will get more of the \"How to Win\" seminar.  Have the drivers provided any input into problem solution? Yes. Remember the routing problems. They have also turned in several additional suggestions to Cheatham on how to improve operations and attendance. She has told them at orientation that she will look at them. She may or may not implement the suggestions. She has told them the items selected for implementation would have to be no cost. Some of the suggestions: re-bidding every 9 weeks for stability\nlooking at about 75 route \\ 7substitutes\nattendance\nusing vending machine money for \"pride\" efforts\nhandling special runs. - Have they had the opportunity? They have the opportunity, but there is no formal system for suggestions or a suggestion review process. They simply write them up and turn them in.  What is the morale of the drivers? Cheatham and Jane think the morale is pretty good. ******************************************************************* MECHANICS * How many mechanics on your allowance? 8 on allowance. They are going to run a split shift for the first time. This way they will have a mechanic in the shop as long as they have a regular run on the road. - How many are onboard? 8 onboard - What about the chieP New guy in the job\npromoted. Retired Army master sergeant. - When will you be full staffed? Current - What is the morale? Seems good right now. 96% availability of fleet. * $300K for mechanics - Wlten do you anticipate getting help from that money? Waiting on approval from the Court. Will gets some parts, 2 mechanics, and some helpers. * What kind of Preventive Maintenance System do you have? They have maintenance log sheets which are all manual. The mechanic makes an entry on the bus, what was done, and what parts were used. This log sheet may have several bus jobs on the same sheet. There is no form, just notes by the mechanic. Maybe 20 words max. 8They kind of keep a running parts inventory in the mind off of these log sheets\nyou know about how many you used and how many you had so the rest should be there\nnothing formal. Each bus has something of a manual maintenance history file in the file cabinet. Based on the log sheets. No formal PMS system. They kind of know when they need to be done. The state requires two general maintenance cycles each year for each bus. They just kind of do them. Maintenance notes are given to the shop by the drivers if they think something needs to be done on the bus. - Is it automated? Nothing is automated. This is a major problem. Montgomery and Cheatham have identified the software needed, but will have to find the money and time to make it happen. - What kind of reports are generated? No reports are generated. The raw data is on the log sheets, and is not extracted. Strictly in a react mode, and based totally on the recall of the mechanics. - What is your greatest maintenance problem? Springs\nfixed during the summer. Brakes\non the road breakdowns. - Are you up to date? 96 % availability posted on sheet of paper each day at the window in the maintenance shop. The first sign of tracking objectives in the district. Just started that this month.  What is your anticipated percent of on-road breakdowns for Monday? Don't think they will have many on Monday. Should have about 15% by Thursday.  What is your plan for handling on-road breakdowns? Mainly anticipate brake problems. Will send out a replacement bus, and the mechanic/helper will try to nurse the wounded bus back to the barn. What kind of wrecker service do you operate? Contracted. Very big expense. About $90 a pop. * Wliat kind of breakdown data do you maintain? None. Only in their minds. - What do you do with it? 9 \\MANAGEMENT * What kind of service do you provide for extracurricular activities? Athletics, field trips, extended day, etc. These are set up outside of the regular schedule. They are requested from various parties, and are worked into the load. They try to give the extra runs to those drivers that want the money. Extra runs require the driver as well as a dispatcher in the office in case of trouble. Very expensive. Remember the example of the single football player at 0400. M-to-M rule of thumb\n5 or more get a bus, less than 5 ride in cabs. - How is that worked into your regular schedule? - How do you plan for that? - What kind of volume do you have? There are about 150 bus loads a day covering all of the special runs, including all of the above and extended day. - Have you been given information indicating more or less load than last year? - Wliat measurements do you keep? None  What is the impact of extended day? No decision has been made by the administration regarding the extended day cuts. Transportation is still waiting to hear. The extended day program will not start until next month, so there is still some time. - How is that worked into your regular schedule? - How do you plan for that? - What kind of volume do you have? - Have you been given information indicating more or less load than last year? - What measurements do you keep? * How are you planning to handle the 9 days of early release this year? 10No decision has been made by the administration. NOTE: I did not sense there was any affirmative action on this. - When did you get a heads-up on this?  What kind of ridership data do you keep? Very little. Only assignments. No real ridership data is kept or worked up. Ecotran has a reporting capability, but the district has never used it. They can not measure the impact on black/white. NOTE\nthey could copy the race code from the student database, read it into Ecotran files, and prepare reports like \"average miles for black students and average miles per white student\" etc. - How do you measure impact on black/white kids?  What security issues are facing you on Monday? At the shop, the main security problem is tracking and accounting for parts. Pilferage, not wholesale theft. On the buses, the main security problems are security around the bus stops and fights on the bus. - What measures will you take?  How do you handle checkers/spotter? These are the supervisors, not additional staff. There are five driver supervisors, and they all have other duties. While the buses are on the road, anywhere from 3-5 supervisors will go out and monitor their schools, if they don't have anything else that is critical to work on (Jayne Agnes also does Ecotran routing). They have been grouped by school since last January. - How many do you have? - What sample do you hit? What does the Transportation Department need most in order to be successful this year? Technology upgrades and some people help. 11Little Rock School District September 30, 1994 RECEIVED SEP 3 0 1994 Office of Desegregation bion.ioring Mrs. Ann S. Brown Federal Monitor Office of Desegregation Monitoring 201 East Markham, Suite 510 Heritage West Building Little Rock, AR 72201 Dear Ann: Enclosed are the answers to the questions you asked and the materials you requested in your letter to me dated September 13, 1994. If you have any questions concerning these responses, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely yours. Mary Cheatham 'J 'ftr4 _ T^rvt.c-'/'/c. ( i -4 e efurel, \u0026lt; / - - Cl/nrr\u0026gt; erci'e/ - \u0026gt;\u0026lt;\u0026lt;\u0026lt;.  /\"'c- . ^ii'hLr 5J Jo I, 810 West Markham Street  Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)824-2000 Questions From Ann Brown September 30, 1994 1. Describe the LRSD's bus driver training program objectives, content, and schedule which the district routinely follows, or at least followed in preparation for this school year. A. Obj ective: 1. To provide certified drivers that meet the requirements to drive school bus in Arkansas. a To provide defensive driving training for every school bus driver in the Little Rock School District at least once a year. B. Content: Classroom preparation that teaches the nation's and state's laws 2 . 1. pertaining to a Commercial Driver's License (CDL). 2 . Classroom preparation that teaches Defensive Driving and skills needed to drive safely and defensively. 3 . On the road driver training driving an obstacle course. and C. Schedule: 1. CDL classes are held weekly for new hires. filled, Once classes the positions will be held are as needed to fill vacant positions. 2 . Defensive driving classes are taught on days school is not in session for drivers. New drivers are scheduled for the first class after they get their CDL's. 2 . Attach a copy of the curriculum and handouts w^iich accompany the training. 2The curricula materials for the CDL course and the Defensive Driving course are in Binders 1 and 2. 3 . List the names of the trainers and their training background or other relative training qualifications. Currently two individuals are primarily responsible for  the training of drivers as extra duty. Their main duties are as drivers. A business case is currently being prepared to add 3.3 positions dedicated training. to driver A. Roy G. Burnley 1. Arkansas Department of Education certificate as an Instructor for the Beginning School Bus Driver Training Program Defensive Driver Course from A-1 2 . Thompson Driving School 3 . Served as Drivers Trainer for 1991- 92 school year and the position was eliminated the following year due to budget cuts. B. Virgil \"Smokey\" Jones 1. Over 10 years experience as a school bus driver 2 . Defensive Driver Course Thompson Driving School from A-1 3 . Served as Drivers Trainer for 1991- 92 school year and the position was eliminated the following year due to budget cuts. 4 . Indicate the number of drivers who received training and the date that they completed the training program. A roster of employees with a Commercial Driver License (CDL) are listed on the rosters in Binder 3. Since August of 1994 approximately 100 individuals have received CDL training. Not all individuals who were trained were- hired for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to. accepted another job, decided to 35 . 6 . 7. move, or stated the job was too stressful. Approximately 40 individuals have received Defensive Driving training. Additional Defensive Driving training and CDL classes will be conducted during the year as time and resources permit. List the number of drivers who have not received training and the date by which these drivers will have been trained\nexplain why any drivers have not completed training. All drivers have Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDL). Since the Driver Trainer positions were eliminated, all training has been on a part time basis. no Defensive Driving classes have Until this year, been offered. Approximately 250 drivers will need Defensive Driving during the school year. students do not attend school. Training is offered on days that When the additional positions for training are approved, a formal schedule for Defensive Driving will be established and followed. Describe the kind of follow-up training you provide for those who miss initial pre-service training sessions. An individual can not drive a bus until he/she has a CDL. If he/she misses any classes, he/she must attend the next class that is held to qualify to take the CDL test. The training that was conducted August 10 and August 11, 1994 included a brief first aid introduction. dealing with student discipline. sessions bus evacuations from smoke filled buses, and discussions concerning department practices and procedures. Classes on bus evacuations are included in the Defensive Driving training. Additional classes dealing with student discipline will be offered by the district Staff Development Department during the school year, time. A schedule has not been developed at this Explain the district's rationale for not participating in ADE'S summer activities. training program and subsequent training The LRSD administration recommended that student transportation services be out sourced for the 1994-95 school year. All resources of the Transportation Department were focused on this project in June 1994. Since the administration did not anticipate operating the major portion of transportation system for the following year, no one was sent to participate in the ADE's summer training program or the training activities completed at the conference. \\ 48 . Describe any plans for future participation in ADE's training programs. The administration plans for the Transportation Department to be represented in all future ADE's training programs related to student transportation. 9. Name who IS presently responsible for overseeing safety training and supervision\ninclude the job description(s) for the individual(s). Mary Jane Cheatham IS currently responsible for 10. overseeing safety training and supervision. description for the Director included in Binder 4. of Transportation The j ob IS Describe the consequences (sanctions and remedial instruction) given drivers who commit safety violations. The Transportation Practices and Procedures (Pink book) contains the consequences for safety violations. Pages 9 16 and page 10, paragraph D, address many of the safety violations and the consequences. If a driver is involved in an accident or is reported by the public as driving unsafely he/she will be counseled by his/her supervisor and/or the Director of Transportation. The driver may be required to attend the next Defensive Driving training. discipline that Drivers are subject to progressive can include a recommendation for immediate termination based upon the severity of the safety violation and/or number of safety violations. 5Date: October 4, 1994 To: Melissa and Bill From: Subject: Information from LRSD Transportation Dept. Attached are Mary jane Cheathamss responses to my September letter to her. Bill, please look over the materials while Melissa is in Oklahoma and then pass them on to her. Then the two of you put your heads together to see if you find that this information brings up additional questions or indicates problem areas. If so, let me know and then plan to discuss those points with Mary jane and/or Spence Holder as appropriate or necessaiy. Frankly, the primary purpose of my letter to Maiy jane (other than tattling on the wrong-way driver) was to obliquely exert some pressure on the district to participate in the State training. Mary Jane has told me that she plans to do just that. Melissa, please follow up to see that her plans become reality. Thanks.Little Rock School District MEMORANDUM To: Bill Mooney, Assistant Monitor, ODM From: Russ Mayo, Associate Superintendent Date: October 28,1994 Subject: Transportation Business Case Attached you will find the Transportation Business Case promised. Please call me at 324-2408 if you have any questions. ij V\n-aw OCT 2 8 1994 Ciiica Ct Desegregation Monitoring C: Dr. Henry P. Williams, Superintendent Mary Jane Cheatham, Director of Transportation Mark MUlhollen, Acting Manager of Support ServicesLittle Rock School District Improving Student Transportation October, 1994 A Business Case 'S 1 i- :\\STOP' ZE Addition Modification Deletion Y-------------------- J I (X4\u0026lt; Little Rock School District Improving Student Transportation Business Case Executive Summary The intent of this business case is to explain the current transportation problems which resulted from an aging fleet and reduced personnel. Unfortunately, the cost of remedies proposed here is only a beginning. It will not fix the problem for the long term. For example, the new buses proposed will not arrive until the spring of 1995. Then too few will arrive to impact the long-term need. The personnel proposed can be hired immediately but will have continuous impact on the budgets from year to year, if this solution continues to be used. Additionally, large sums of money will have to be included in each succeeding budget to replace buses. A detailed explanation of the transportation problem follows with a temporary solution for this budget year. The cost to the district will be $1.3 million. Replacement buses will cost $1 million and additional personnel will cost approximately $0.3 million. Below is an itemized list of costs: Quan. Position 3.3 Trainers Cost^ Quan.^ Item Cost 4 Mechanics 4 Helpers 1.5 Clerks $87,100 $115,200 $62,400 $21,600 33 Buses $990,000 Total $286,300 Total $990,000 The money will come from the state desegregation loan fund. The following milestones for implementing this proposal are suggested and will be monitored by the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation. Milestone 1. Proposal presented to the LRSD Board of Directors and approved 2. Advertise for mechanics and trainers Date 7/14/94 9/1/94 Person Williams Hurley Includes benefits 2 Depends on whether or not we lease-purchase or purchase outrightimproving Student Transportation Business Cuse 2 4. 5. Review specifications with Assoc. Supt. Place order for new buses 6, Employ mechanics and trainers 7. Begin training for current employees 8. Begin receiving replacement equipment 9. Evaluate solution based on outcomes anticipated 10/3/94 10/14/94 10/3/94 10/24/94 5/1/95 6/30/95 Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Background Introduction One of the most expensive enterprises undertaken by the district is the student transportation system. Its problems and costs continue to grow. Recognition of this came this past school year when a number of incidents attracted public attention. Budget cuts in recent years resulted in reduced money for personnel and for the purchase of new buses. The lack of a bus replacement program coupled with reduced spending has had a compounding affect. The intent of this business case is to explain the current transportation problems which resulted from an aging fleet and reduced personnel. Unfortunately, the cost of remedies proposed here is only a beginning. It will not fix the problem for the long term. For example, the new buses proposed will not arrive until the spring of 1995. Then too few will arrive to impact the long-term need. The personnel proposed can be hired immediately but will have continuous impact on the budgets from year to year, if this solution continues to be used. Additionally, large sums of money will have to be included in each succeeding budget to replace buses. A detailed explanation of the transportation problem follows with a temporary solution for this budget year. History Determining the source of the problem and generating solutions has taken an extraordinary amount of time for the Administration in recent months, j^dditionally, the Board requested a study of support services in the district to determine the level of efficiency within each area. Coopers and Lybrand, a national accounting firm, conducted the study and returned recommendations to the Board. In their report, they identified the pupil transportation system as the area in greatest need of much attention. So concerned were they that they recommended that the district look seriously at permitting a private contractor to operate the transportation system if it proved economically beneficial.Improving Student Transportation Business Case 3 The District expends an inordinate amount of time and energy focusing on transportation. The urgent concerns of transportation limit attention on educational issues. Often transportation problems draw media attention which results in poor public relations. The District's transportation operations have frequently been in the media. In fact, it was the lead article on the front page of the November 7, 1993 Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Many of these stories have revolved around labor and safety issues and poor service. The accuracy of the stories is not as important as the resulting poor public perception of the system, and the fact that these \"crises\" are draining management's attention away from the primary goal of educating children. Problem Definition Parent complaints with our student transportation system have become voluminous as a result of poor on-time performance which has occurred because of an aging fleet and driver performance. In this proposal, the notion of an aging fleet is supported by statistics of the number of buses with excessive miles, the increasing costs of repairs, the increasing need for mechanics, and the increasing calls for wrecker service. Concern about poor driver performance is supported by statistics on driver absenteeism, the preventable accident rate, and high workmen compensation claims. All comparisons are made between standards acceptable to contractors in the industry and standards of LRSD. Aging Fleet To bring the aging fleet up-to-date requires a replacement schedule that meets certain criteria. The standards we have used are based on engine type and miles of use. Those parameters require that buses be replaced as follows: Gasoline powered buses: Any such bus that exceeds seven years of age or 100,000 miles at the start of any school year. Diesel powered buses: Any such bus that exceeds 10 years of age or 150,000 miles at the beginning of any school year. Based on equipment inventoried at the close of school in June, 1994, the replacement schedule should look like Figure 2. The shaded area gives a historical perspective on buses purchased prior to this school year. The replacement schedule begins at the line marked 1994-95. However, new buses for 1994-95 will not be received until School Year 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1993 1993-1994 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2003-2004 Figure 1 Buses 48 6 27 0 128 29 22 18 10 1 25 oC.ouLImproving Student Transportation Business Case 4 the spring of that school year and this quantity cannot be ordered with the current money. Only approximately 33 buses may be purchased with this proposal. The chart shows the number of buses that must be replaced prior to the start of each corresponding school year. Because of the age and condition of the existing fleet maintenance costs have increased. This has created a need for additional mechanics. In fact, a recent study of the operation conducted by Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc. yielded this finding: The high ratio of one maintenance person to 44 vehicles is unsatisfactory. With many of these vehicles having over 100,000 miles on them, the need for quality preventative maintenance is crucial. This is not presently possible and Mr. Viner and his staff are doing an excellent job of keeping the fleet running. Add to this the fact that no new buses are being bought this year, the situation is going to become more difficult to manage. Mr. Viner recently had one mechanic resign citing stress and the heavy maintenance workload as the reason. A replacement has not yet been hired, but even with this individual replaced, the bus vs.( mechanic ratio is not consistent with national standards. As major repairs become more frequent, the cost of labor and parts is expected to rise in each succeeding year. In 1992-93, the District spent $480,804, in 1993-94 it spent Wrecker Experience $745,245, and in 1994-95 it is predicted to reach over $1 million. This escalation in vehicle maintenance costs correlates with the out-of-service rate and impacts the 600 460 - 400 - 360 - 300 260 - 200 -- 160 -- 100 -- 60 - ri LRSD  industry 400 0 160 1992-93 299 ^9 II + 1993-94 1994-96 quality of performance. With the exception of periods immediately succeeding holidays or extended times of non-service. the District averages Figure 2 approximately 30 out-of-service buses per day out of a fleet of 281 buses. A reasonable expectation is for no more than 13 of the vehicles to be out-of-service for corrective or preventative maintenance during peak operational periods. \\ , Another common performance indicator associated with vehicle maintenance is \"wrecker experience\". In 1993, the District spent $14,390 for 160 wrecker calls. By comparison $25,945 has been spent for 291 wrecker calls to date in 1994. It is predicted that $37,800 will be spent for over 400 calls in the 1994-95 school year. A more acceptable number for a fleet of this size is 60 calls per year. Driver Performance Several factors are used to reflect driver performance. One of the leading indicators of poor performance is driver absenteeism. Because absenteeism 10/25/M 6C_SUS Improving Student Transportation Business Case 5 inconveniences students, wastes the District's scarce resources, and works an undue hardship on employees who maintain good attendance records, it is considered to be a causal factor, and an accurate indicator of the unsatisfactory performance of the current svstem. In the spring of 1994, the District had a daily driver absentee rate of 23% . The result of this high level of absenteeism was poor route performance. increased student discipline concerns, and inordinately high costs for drivers re-routed to pick up missed students. More often than not, the transportation system is besieged by problems stemming from driver absenteeism and the seemingly liberal use of employee sick leave provisions. (Note: the PCSSD currently has no employer Driver Performance Absenteeism 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Absent Figure 3 sponsored sick leave provision for bus drivers and seems to have fewer problems.) Vehicle accident rate is another indicator of driver performance {Figure 4). Accidents harm students and others, waste financial resources, and lead to unnecessary down-time for equipment. Preventable accidents are an even more interesting statistic since they are a result of driver error. In 1992-93, the District had 68 such accidents while logging over 3.9 million miles\nin 1993-94, there were 54 preventable accidents with the fleet traveling just over 4.3 million miles. That translates into 17.4 accidents per million miles and 12.5 accidents per million miles respectively. Though the two year trend is downward, it exceeds the standards of contractors in the industry Figure 4 considerably. By contrast, private contractors average a record of only 8.8 preventable accidents per million miles. Contractors have a better accident rate because of a continuous training program. Typically, a high vehicle accident rate causes increases in both Workers Compensation and Property and Casualty insurance costs. Analysis of claims for three previous years for Workers Compensation indicates an upward trend in claims and cost per claim. In 1991-92 there were 31 Workers Compensation Improving Student Transportation Business Case 6 claims processed for the Transportation Department In 1992-93 there were 42 claims processed, and by March of 1994, there had been some 45 claims. Bus driver claims account for 65% of all claims by district employees for the past five vears. These data indicate an urgent need for improved driver training and the initiation of a vigorous safety awareness program. That has not been possible in LRSD because of the elimination of supervisory and training positions by budget cuts. Regarding these same issues, the Gallagher study provided the following recommendations: 93-12-22. The Director of Transportation should develop, implement and manage an aggressive Loss Prevention Program. Supervisors and employees must be held accountable for their actions. Fair, swift and appropriate discipline or corrective measures must be taken to handle unsatisfactory conditions prior to them becoming uncontrollable. 93-12-23. No driver should be allowed to operate a vehicle without first, having been trained in defensive driving. All drivers should after initial training, attend annual defensive driving training including, hands-on evaluations. While the foregoing factors taken individually do not threaten the collapse of transportation, taken together, these signs reveal a dysfunctional system. Consider the comments of the Coopers \u0026amp; Lybrand staff in their findings at the transportation terminal: Coopers \u0026amp; Lybrand spent two days talking with customers and employees of the Little Rock School District's Transportation Department. While almost all of the people we talked to spoke favorably of the department's operation relative to the constraints placed upon it, aU indicated a concern that something needed to be done to ensure that things did not get worse. All interviewees, customers and employees alike, expressed a concern that the department was beginning to show signs of stress, like cracks in a dam, and many were fearful of the department's future. It is C\u0026amp;L's opinion that these concerns and signs are real. We also feel that these symptoms reflect the fact that the current mode of operation was conceived long ago without any vision of the desegregated , inner city environment in which the department now operates. What is frightening is that the interwoven complexities of this environment combined with the bankrupt methods of the past have created a semi-self defeating situation that cannot be escaped without vigorous redesign of the process. Atialysis of Altentatives ] Solutions were discussed with a committee representing parents, principals, support staff, and administrators in the LRSD last summer. Upon careful consideration, several aspects of the problem emerged. These must be addressed to have a viable solution to the problem. They are parent complaints, on-time performance, aging fleet, increasing accidents, increasing absenteeism, and costs. Though the committee favored outsourcing as the alternative of choice, that idea failed when placed before the Board of Directors for lack of a vote. iO/28/J4 BC.SUSImproving Student Transportation Business Case / The alternative solutions considered are listed below: 1. Change nothing. This will not address the problem and will cause costs to grow annually as the fleet ages and driver training is not maintained because of 2. turnover.\nFollow industry standards for equipment replacement, personnel, etc. including a strict schedule for replacing the fleet. The district would continue to operate the system. Ordered buses will not arrive until the spring of Figure 5 1995. This will have a dramatic impact on the current and future budgets. The first year increase to the budget is approximately million. $1.3 Figure 5 illustrates the comparison between existing positions in the district and the number needed. The intent is to match the industry in training positions, mechanics, and preventive maintenance positions. The need for buses was illustrated earlier. One million of this money will be used to purchase new buses and $.3 million will be used to increase personnel. 3. Turn over the M-M portion of the system to the Arkansas Department of Education. This would reduce costs for LRSD but increase coordination problems. 4. Consolidate transportation in all Pulaski County Districts. Getting agreement on this would be a major challenge. 5.  Outsource the student transportation system to a private concern. Research requested by the Board of Directors indicates that this alternative addresses all aspects of the problem. It includes a budget savings of approximately $1 million dollars over the next three years. The Board of Directors did not approve this alternative when brought before them in July of 1994. Several strategies have been discussed in recent months, but perhaps none is as practicable an idea as that of outsourcing. It is believed that through outsourcing, the District will realize a considerable cost savings and significantly improve the level of service provided to its students and patrons. iu/:S/M K.SUS Improving Student Transportation Business Case 8 Though a primary motivation for considering outsourcing is to save costs, it is worth mentioning that other tangible benefits such as reasonable and predictable fleet replacement, lowered driver absenteeism, improved vehicle maintenance, and reduced vehicle accident rate will also be realized. An appreciable improvement in these areas will lead to significantly fewer problems and complaints, as well as establish a more stable and reliable transportation system for future LRSD needs. Recmtimetidation Alternative 2 is recommended to temporarily address the immediate problem. 2. Follow industry standards for equipment replacement, personnel, etc. including a strict schedule for replacing the fleet. This will have a dramatic impact on the current and future budgets. The first year increase to the budget is approximately $1.3 million. Objective By the second semester of school for 1994-95, on-time performance will increase and parent complaints will decrease. This transportation proposal supports the school district goals relating to improving service to students. The following is a list of the criteria to be used in determining whether or not the problem is reduced when this solution is implemented: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Parent satisfaction will increase as indicated by a reduction in the number of complaints\nBuses will be on-time more often than they are now\nAccidents will decrease\nThe number of buses out-of-service for repairs will decrease\nA schedule for replacement of equipment will be followed for this y^ar. Impact Analysis The primary impact will be on a budget that is austere. Negatives 1. Seven to eight months will be necessary before new buses can be delivered\nand, 2. Time will be required in hiring and training new personnel, thus delaying the solution.Improving Student Transportation Business Case 9 3. The budget must increase in future years to accommodate these needs. Positives 1. Parent satisfaction will increase as indicated bv a reduction in the number of 2. 3. 4. 5. complaints\nBuses will be on-time more often than they are now\nAccidents will decrease\nThe number of buses out-of-service for repairs will decrease\nA schedule for replacement of equipment will be followed for this year. Risks The risks of not implementing this temporary fix is increasing costs to the district, increasing complaints by patrons, and a generally poor image of the district's transportation system. The desegregation plan will be impacted negatively. The risks of implementation of this temporary fix is that it may appear to be too little too late. The problem is greater than can be addressed by this particular solution. Timing It is critical that the decision be made before the budget is final for 1994-95. If this solution is to be implemented, buses must be ordered and personnel recruited as soon as possible. Resources Analysis Personnel Several trainers and additional mechanics are necessary to implement this proposal. Financial The cost to the district will be $1.3 million. Replacement buses will cost $1 million and additional personnel will cost approximately $0.3 million. Below is an itemized list of costs: .U/2S/M gC.3U5Improving Student Transportation Business Case 10 Timing It is critical that the decision be made before the budget is final for 1994-95. If this solution is to be implemented, buses must be ordered and personnel recruited as soon as possible. Resources Analysis Personnel Several trainers and additional mechanics are necessary to implement this proposal. Financial The cost to the district will be $1.3 million. Replacement buses will cost $1 million and additional personnel will cost approximately $0.3 million. Below is an itemized list of costs: Quan. Position 3.3 Trainers Cost^ Item Cost 4 Mechanics 4 Helpers 1.5 Clerks $87,100 $115,200 $62,400 $21,600 33 Buses $990,000 Total $286,300 Total $990,000 Revenue Source The money will come from the state desegregation loan fund. Force Field Analysis Primary supporters of this proposal will be those directly affected by the solution  patrons and administrators within the District. The Board of Directors and 3 Includes benefits 4 Depends on whether or not we lease-purchase or purchase outright lO/MZ* K.KBImproving Student I ransportation Business Case 11 General Implementation Plan The following milestones for implementing this proposal are suggested and will be monitored by the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation. Milestone Date Person 1. Proposal presented to the LRSD Board of Directors and approved 7/14/94 Williams 2. Advertise for mechanics and trainers 3. Determine specifications for new buses 4. Review specifications with Assoc. Supt. 5. Place order for new buses 6. Employ mechanics and trainers 7. Begin training for current employees 8, Begin receiving replacement equipment 9. Evaluate solution based on outcomes anticipated 9/1/94 9/1/94 10/3/94 10/14/94 10/3/94 10/24/94 5/1/95 6/30/95 Hurley Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham .m/S/94 K.BUSI 1 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT STUDENT ASSIGNMENT 501 SHERMAN STREET LITTLE ROCK ARKANSAS 72202 / - October 31, 1994 Mr. Bill Mooney ODM Little Rock Arkansas 72202 Dear Bill: Due to an error there were two pages in the LRSD Transportation Business Case with wrong calculations. Please replace pages 1 and 10 with the enclosed copies. Thank you for your help! Sincerely, Russ Mayo Associate Superintendent for Desegregation RM:dk Enclosure: (2) \\ f s ooa h  o - g *. x, (' i '. .'-\nl.\n. /i \u0026lt; I /  V I f iiSPu I I. n i\n.. J s J O -I o  U} ns I G aIoI 00 'n, J2'.-i..t IVbM DZX.\u0026lt;L.\u0026lt;^ ^01 i- CC\\,KhcL^-l-y~y Cl ~l j^t^O I BaSi BBa IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS WESTERN DIVISION NOV 1 6 1994 Oifice or Dosegreg\nn.! ng LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT PLAINTIFF V. LR-C-82-866 PULASKI COUNTY SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1, ET AL DEFENDANTS MRS. LORENE JOSHUA, ET AL INTERVENORS KATHERINE KNIGHT, ET AL INTERVENORS NOTICE OF FILING The Little Rock School District hereby gives notice of the filing of the following documents which are related to the district court order dated October 24, 1994: 1. Incentive School Spanish Program. 2. Incentive School Theme Implementation. 3 . Improving Student Transportation - A Business Case. Respectfully submitted. LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT \\ FRIDAY, ELDREDGE \u0026amp; CLARK 2000 First Commercial Bldg. 400 West Capitol Street Little Rock, AR 72201 (501) 376-2011 By* Christopher Hei Bar No. 81083 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that a copy of the foregoing Notice of Filing has been served on the following people by depositing copy of same in the United States mail on this 16th day of November, 1994. Mr. John Walker JOHN WALKER, P.A. 1723 Broadway Little Rock, AR 72206 Mr. Sam Jones WRIGHT, LINDSEY \u0026amp; JENNINGS 2200 Worthen Bank Bldg. 200 West Capitol Little Rock, AR 72201 Mr. Steve Jones JACK, LYON \u0026amp; JONES, P.A. 3400 Capitol Towers Capitol \u0026amp; Broadway Streets Little Rock, AR 72201 Mr. Richard Roachell Roachell and Streett First Federal Plaza 401 West Capitol, Suite 504 Little Rock, AR 72201 Ms. Ann Brown Hand Delivered Desegregation Monitor Heritage West Bldg., Suite 510 201 East Markham Street Little Rock, AR 72201 Ms. Elizabeth Boyter Arkansas Dept, of Education 4 State Capitol Mall Little Rock, AR 72201-1071 Christopher 2 Little Rock School District Improving Student Transportation Business Case Executive Summary The intent of this business case is to explain the current transportation problems which resulted from an aging fleet and reduced personnel. Unfortunately, the cost of remedies proposed here is only a beginning. It will not fix the problem for the long term. For example, the new buses proposed will not arrive until the spring of 1995. Then too few will arrive to impact the long-term need. The personnel proposed can be hired immediately but will have continuous impact on the budgets from year to year, if this solution continues to be used. Additionally, large sums of money wiU have to be included in each succeeding budget to replace buses. A detailed explanation of the transportation problem follows with a temporary solution for this budget year. The cost to the district will be $1.3 million. Replacement buses will cost $1 million and additional personnel will cost approximately $0.3 million. Below is an itemized list of costs: Quan. Position Cost^ Qtian.^ Item 3.3 1.5 Trainers Mechanics Helpers Qerks $87,100 $115,200 $62,400 $21,600 33 Buses Cost ''$990,000 4 4 Total $286,300 Total $990,000 The money wiU come from the state desegregation Ioan fund. The following milestones for implementing this proposal are suggested and will be monitored by the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation. T Milestone 1. Proposal presented to the LRSD Board of Directors and approved 2. Advertise for mechanics and trainers Date 7/14/94 9/1/94 Person Williams Hurley 1 2 Includes benefits Depends on whether or not we lease-purchase or purchase outright.Improving Student Transportation Business Case 2 4. 5. Review specifications with Assoc. Supt. Place order for new buses 6. Employ mechanics and trainers 7. Begin training for current employees 8. Begin receiving replacement equipment 9. Evaluate solution based on outcomes anticipated 10/3/94 10/14/94 10/3/94 10/24/94 5/1/95 6/30/95 Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Background Introduction One of the most expensive enterprises undertaken by the district is the student transportation system. Its problems and costs continue to grow. Recognition of this came this past school year when a number of incidents attracted public attention. Budget cuts in recent years resulted in reduced money for personnel and for the purchase of new buses. The lack of a bus replacement program coupled with reduced spending has had a compounding affect The intent of this business case is to explain the current transportation problems which resulted from an aging fleet and reduced personnel. Unfortunately, the cost of remedies proposed here is only a beginning. It will not fix the problem for the long term. For example, the new buses proposed will not arrive until the spring of 1995. Then too few will arrive to impact the long-term need. The personnel proposed can be hired immediately but will have continuous impact on the budgets from year to year, if this solution continues to be used. Additionally, large sums of money will have to be included in each succeeding budget to replace buses. A detailed explanation of the transportation problem follows with a temporary solution for this budget year. History Determining the source of the problem and generating solutions has taken an extraordinary amount of time for the Administration in recent months. Additionally, the Board requested a study of support services in the district to determine the level of efficiency within each area. Coopers and Lybrand, a national accounting firm, conducted the study and returned recommendations to the Board. In their report, they identified the pupil transportation system as the area in greatest need of much attention. So concerned were they that they recommended that the district look seriously at permitting a private contractor to operate the transportation svstem if it proved economically beneficial. -tJfItuprovitig Student Transportation Business Case  The District expends an inordinate amount of time and energy focusing on transportation. The urgent concerns of transportation limit attention on educational issues. Often transportation problems draw media attention which results in poor public relations. The District's transportation operations have frequently been in the media. In fact, it was the lead article on the front page of the November 7, 1993 Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Many of these stories have revolved around labor and safety issues and poor service. The accuracy of the stories is not as important as the resulting poor public perception of the system, and the fact that these \"crises\" draining management's attention away from the primary goal of educating children. I Problem Definition are Parent complaints with our student transportation system have become voluminous as a result of poor on-time performance which has occurred because of an aging fleet and driver performance. In this proposal, the notion of an aging fleet is supported by statistics of the number of buses with excessive miles, the increasing costs of repairs, the increasing need for mechanics, and the increasing calls for wrecker service. Concern about poor driver performance is supported by statistics on driver absenteeism, the preventable accident rate, and high workmen compensation claims. All comparisons are made between standards acceptable to contractors in the industry and standards of LRSD. Aging Rest To bring the aging fleet up-to-date requires a replacement schedule that meets certain criteria. The standards we have used are based on engine type and miles of use. Those parameters require that buses be replaced as follows: Gasoline powered buses: Any such bus that exceeds seven years of age or 100,000 miles at the start of any school year. Diesel powered buses: Any such bus that exceeds 10 years of age or 150,000 miles at the beginning of any school year. Based on equipment inventoried at the close of school in June, 1994, the replacement schedule should look like Figure 1. The shaded area gives a historical perspective \\ Schooi Year Buses on buses purchased prior to this school year. The replacement schedule begins at the line marked 1994-95. However, new buses for 1994-95 will not be received until 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1993 1993-1994 1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2003-2004 48 6 27 0 128 29 22 18 10 1 25 Figure 1hnproving Student Transportation Business Case 4 the spring of that school year and this quantity cannot be ordered with the current money. Only approximately 33 buses may be purchased with this proposal. The chart shows the number of buses that must be replaced prior to the start of each corresponding school year. Because of the age and condition of the existing fleet maintenance costs have increased. This has created a need for additional mechanics. In fact, a recent studv of the operation conducted by Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc. yielded this finding: The high ratio of one maintenance person to -W vehicles is unsatisfactorv. With many of these vehicles having over 100,000 miles on them, the need for quality preventative maintenance is crudai. This is not presently possible and Mr. Viner and his staff are doing an excellent job of keeping the fleet running. Add to this the fact that no new buses are being bought this year, the situation is going to become more difficult to manage. Ivlr. Viner recently had one mechanic resign citing stress and the heavy maintenance workload as the reason. A replacement has not yet been hired, but even with this individual replaced, the bus vs. mechanic ratio is not consistent with national standards. As major repairs become more frequent, the cost of labor and parts is expected to rise in each succeeding year. In 1992-93, the District spent $480,804, in 1993-94 it spent Wrecker Experience $745,245, and in 1994-95 it is predicted to reach over $1 million. This escalation in vehicle maintenance costs correlates with the out-of-service rate and impacts the 500 460 -- 400 -- 360 -- 300 - 260 - 200 - 160 1 100 I 60 1 9 0 I  LRSD  Industry 400 quality of performance, exception of periods With the immediately succeeding holidays or extended times of 160 60 + 299 1993-94 non-service, the District averages 60 1992-93 1994-96 Figure 2 approximately 30 out-of-service buses per day out of a fleet of 281 buses. A reasonable expectation is for no more than 13 of the vehicles to be out-of-service for corrective or preventative maintenance during peak operational periods. Another common performance indicator associated with vehicle maintenance is \"wrecker experience\". In 1993, the District spent $14,390 for 160 wrecker calls. By comparison $25,945 has been spent for 291 wrecker calls to date in 1994. It is predicted that $37,800 will be spent for over 400 calls in the 1994-95 school year, acceptable number for a fleet of this size is 60 calls per year. A more Driver Performance Several factors are used to reflect driver performance. One of the leading indicators of poor performance is driver absenteeism. Because absenteeism Improving Student Transportation Business Case 5 inconveniences students, wastes the District's scarce resources, and works an undue hardship on employees who maintain good attendance records, it is considered to be a causal factor, and an accurate indicator of the unsatisfactorv performance of the current system. In the spring of 1994, the District had a daily driver absentee rate of 23% . The result of this high level of absenteeism was poor route performance, increased student discipline concerns, and inordinately high costs for drivers re-routed to pick up missed students. More often than not, the transportation system is besieged by problems stemming from driver absenteeism and the seemingly liberal use of employee sick leave provisions. (Note: the PCSSD currently has no employer Driver Performance Absenteeism 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Absent Figure 3 sponsored sick leave provision for bus drivers and seems to have fewer problems.) Vehicle accident rate is another indicator of driver performance (Figure 4). Accidents harm students and others, waste financial resources, and lead to down-time for equipment Preventable accidents unnecessary are an even more interesting statistic since they are a result of driver error. In 1992-93, the District had 68 such accidents while logging over 3.9 million miles\nin 1993-94, there were 54 preventable accidents with the fleet traveling just over 4.3 million miles. That translates into 17.4 accidents per million miles and 12.5 accidents per million miles respectively. Though the two year trend is downward, it exceeds the standards of contractors in the industry Figure 4 considerablv. By contrast, private contractors average a record of only 8.8 preventable accidents per million miles. Contractors have a better accident rate because of a continuous training program. Typically, a high vehicle accident rate causes increases in both Workers Compensation and Property and C^sualtv insurance costs. Analysis of claims for three previous years for Workers Compensation indicates an upward trend in claims and cost per claim. In 1991-92 there were 31 Workers Compensation Improving Student Transportation Business Case b claims processed for the Transportation Department. In 1992-93 there were 42 claims processed, and by March of 1^4, there had been some 45 claims. Bus driver claims account for 65% of all claims by district employees for the past five years. These data indicate an urgent need for improved driver training and the initiation of a vigorous safety awareness program. That has not been possible in LRSD because of the elimination of supervisory and training positions by budget cuts. Regarding these recommendations: same issues, the Gallagher study provided the following 93-12-22. The Director of Transportation should develop, implement and manage an aggressive Loss Prevention Program. Supervisors and employees must be held accountable for their actions. Fair, swift and appropriate discipline or corrective measures must be taken to handle unsatisfactory conditions prior to them becoming uncontrollable. 93-12-23. No driver should be allowed to operate a vehicle without first, having been trained in defensive driving. All drivers should after initial training, attend annual defensive driving training including, hands-on evaluations. While the foregoing factors taken individually do not threaten the collapse of transportation, taken together, these signs reveal a dysfunctional system. Consider the comments of the Coopers \u0026amp; Lybrand staff in their findings at the transportation terminal: Coopers \u0026amp; Lybrand spent two days talking with customers and employees of the Little Rock School District's Transportation Department. While almost all of the people we talked to spoke favorably of the department's operation relative to the constraints placed upon it, aU indicated a concern that something needed to be done to ensure that things did not get worse. AH interviewees, customers and employees alike, expressed a concern that the department was beginning to show signs of stress, hke cracks in a dam, and many were fearful of the department's future. It is C\u0026amp;L's opinion that these concerns and signs are real. We also feel that these symptoms reflect the fact that the current mode of operation was conceived long ago without any vision of the desegregated , inner city environment in which the department now operates. What is frightening is that the interwoven complexities of this environment combined with the bankrupt methods of the past have created a semi-self defeating situation that cannot be escaped without vigorous redesign of the process. Analysis of Alternatives Solutions were discussed with a committee representing parents, principals. support staff, and administrators in the LRSD last summer. Upon careful consideration, several aspects of the problem emerged. These must be addressed to have a viable solution to the problem. They are parent complaints, on-time performance, aging fleet, increasing accidents, increasing absenteeism, and costs. Though the committee favored outsourcing as the alternative of choice, that idea failed when placed before the Board of Directors for lack of a vote.Improving Student Transportation Business Case / The alternative solutions considered are listed below: 1. Change nothing. This will not address the problem and will cause costs to grow annually as the fleet ages and driver training is not maintained because of turnover.\n2. Follow industry standards for equipment replacement, personnel, etc. including a strict schedule for replacing the fleet. The district would continue to operate the system. Ordered buses will not arrive until the spring of Figure 5 1995. This will have a dramatic- impact on the current and future budgets. The first vear increase to the budget is approximately million. Figure S1.3 5 illustrates the comparison between existing positions in the district and the number needed. The intent is to match the industry in training positions, mechanics, and preventive maintenance positions. The need for buses was illustrated 3. 4. 5. earlier. One million of this money will be used to purchase new buses and $.3 million will be used to increase personnel. Turn over the M-M portion of the system to the Arkansas Department of Education. This would reduce costs for LRSD but increase coordination problems. Consolidate transportation in all Pulaski County Districts. Getting agreement on this would be a major challenge. Outsource the student transportation system to a private concern. Research requested by the Board of Directors indicates that this alternative addresses all aspects of the problem. It includes a budget savings of approximately 51 million dollars over the next three years. The Board of Directors did not approve this alternative when brought before them in July of 1994. \\ Several strategies have been discussed in recent months, but perhaps none is as practicable an idea as that of outsourcing. It is believed that through outsourcing, the District will realize a considerable cost savings and significantly improve the level of service provided to its students and patrons. improving Student Transportation Business Case 8 Though a primary motivation for considering outsourcing is to save costs, it is wordi mentioning that other tangible benefits such as reasonable and predictable fleet replacement, lowered driver absenteeism, improved vehicle maintenance, and reduced vehicle accident rate will also be realized. An appreciable improvement in these areas will lead to significantly fewer problems and complaints, as well as establish a more stable and reliable transportation system for future LRSD needs. Recomnietida tion Alternative 2 is recommended to temporarily address the immediate problem. 2. Follmv industry standards for equipment replacement, personnel, etc. including a strict scliedule for replacing the fleet. This will have a dramatic impact on the current and future budgets. The first year increase to the budget is approximately $1.3 million. Objective By the second semester of school for 1994-95, on-time performance uhll increase and parent complaints will decrease. This transportation proposal supports the school district goals relating to improving service to students. The following is a list of the criteria to be used in determining whether or not the problem is reduced when this solution is implemented: 1. 2. 3. Parent satisfaction will increase as indicated by a reduction in the number of complaints\nBuses will be on-time more often than they are now\nAccidents will decrease\n4. The number of buses out-of-service for repairs will decrease\n5. A schedule for replacement of equipment will be followed for this year. Impact Analysis The primary impact will be on a budget that is austere. Negatives 1. Seven to eight months w'ill be necessary before new buses can be delivered\nand, 2. Time will be required in hiring and training new personnel, thus delaying the solution. V.i'.H'i SC.Vm.Improving Student Transportation Business Case y 3, The budget must increase in future years to accommodate these needs. Positives 1. 2. 3. 4. Parent satisfaction will increase as indicated by a reduction in the number of complaints\nBuses will be on-time more often than they are now\nAccidents will decrease\nThe number of buses out-of-service for repairs will decrease\n5. A schedule for replacement of equipment will be followed for this year. Risks The risks of not implementing this temporary fix is increasing costs to the district, increasing complaints by patrons, and a generally poor image of the distncf s transportation system. The desegregation plan will be impacted negatively. The risks of implementation of this temporary fix is that it may appear to be too little too late. The problem is greater than can be addressed by this particular solution. Timing It is critical that the decision be made before the budget is final for 1994-95. If this solution is to be implemented, buses must be ordered and personnel recruited as soon as possible. Resources Analysis Personnel Several trainers and additional mechanics are necessary to implement this proposal. Financial The cost to the district will be S1.3 million. Replacement buses will cost SI million and additional personnel will cost approximately $0.3 million^ Below is an itemized list of costs:Improving Student Transportation Business Case 10 Timing It is'critical that the decision be made before the budget is final for 1994-95. If this solution is to be implemented, buses must be ordered and personnel recruited as soon as possible. Resources Analysis 1 Personnel Several trainers and additional mechanics are necessary to implement this proposal. Financial The cost to the district will be $1.3 million. Replacement buses will cost $1 million and additional personnel will cost approximately $0.3 million. Below is an itemized list of costs: Quan. Position 3.3 Trainers Cost^ Quan.* Item Cost 4 Mechanics 4 Helpers 1.5 Clerks $87,100 $115,200 $62,400 $21,600 33 Buses $990,000 Total $286,300 Total $990,000 Revenue Source The money will come from the state desegregation loan fund. Force Field Analysis 1 Primary supporters of this proposal will be those directly affected by the solution  patrons and administrators within the District. The Board of Directors and 3 Includes benefits 4 Depends on whether or not we lease-purchase or purchase outright. a*Improving Student Transportation Business Case 11 I General Impletiientation Plan The following milestones for implementing this proposal are suggested and will be monitored by the Associate Superintendent for Desegregation. 1. Milestone Proposal presented to the LRSD Board of Directors and approved 2. Advertise for mechanics and trainers 3. Determine specifications for new buses 4, Review specifications with Assoc. Supt. 5. Place order for new buses 6. Employ mechanics and trainers 7. Begin training for current employees 8. Begin receiving replacement equipment 9. Evaluate solution based on outcomes anticipated Date 7/14/94 9/1/94 9/1/94 10/3/94 10/14/94 10/3/94 10/24/94 5/1/95 6/30/95 Person Williams Hurley Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham Cheatham \\FI Little Rock School District Procurement \u0026amp; Materials Manag ementDepartment 1800 East Sixth Street March 31, 1995 Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 RECHr-.F^ APR . 7 1995 Office of Desegregation Moniioi TO: Prospective Contractors Please find attached a Request for Proposal (RFP 95-014), inviting interested contractors to submit proposals to the Little Rock School District for the outsourcing of a portion of the student transportation service. The RFP consist of four (4) sections: !F:le. Section covers background information instructions, terms and conditions. I and the followed Section II is a sample contract or agreement that will be in developing the actual contract with the successful proposer. * Section III lists the factors used in detennining contractor qualification and a questionnaire soliciting various information upon which qualification judgements can be made.  Section IV contains the forms to be filled in with the cost information that you project for performing the various busing activities. Sections I and II are bound separately. Sections III and IV are bound together in a loose-leaf facilitate removal and photo-copying, return portions of the RFP. manner to Sections III and IV are the 1800 East Sixth Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 (501) 324-2230 Fax: (501) 324-2233 Page 2 All proposals should be complete and carefully worded, Uxxd convey all of the information requested by the District, significant errors are found in the contractor's proposal, xj. the proposal fails to conform to the essential requirements of the RFP, the District, and the District alone, will judge whether the and must If or if variance is significant enough to reject or accept a proposal. Proposals are to be prepared simply and in a manner designed to provide the Districtwith a straight-forward presentation of the  capability to satisfy the requirements of the RFP. Elaborate brochures and other promotional materials are not desired. promotional materials The District reserves the.right to reject any or all proposals and irregularities or formalities in the solicitation or . - * Award will be based upon those considerations which are in the best interest of the District and will be made to the responsible offerer whose proposal is judged to be the effective and economical for the purpose intended, according to the requirements and specifications stated in the Request for Proposal. any responses. responsive, to the according April 14, 1995. Please^note_that there will be a pre-proposal conference on Friday, We realize this is very short notice, but we are working under a very condensed schedule. Please direct your calls and correspondence to the undersigned at (501) 324-2230. Sincerely, Charles A. Neal Director of ProcurementVERIFICATION OF RECEIPT OF ADDENDUM #1 LRSD RFP 95-014, STUDENT TRANSPORTATION SERVICES Date: 4/27/95 RSCn r7i! * TO: Vendor Addressed From: Charles A. Neal, Director, Procurement \u0026amp; Materials Management 2 d 1995 Subject: Addendum #1, RFP95-014, Student Transportation Services Offii oi Di\\): Si-eg, lai Dnoneinformation is provided to you in response to questions received on P95-014. If more information is needed, please contact us promptly a timely response. in order to receive Document ID# Date Received 1. Fourteen (14) Questions \u0026amp; Answers dated April 25, 1995 (4 pages) 2. Current Routes Listed by Bus Number (9 pages) 3. Seniority List by Hire date (7 pages) NOTE: CLARIFICATION OF LRSD PROCEDURES FOR THE OPENING PROPOSALS SUBMITTED IN RESPONSE TO AN RFP: Pi^oposals will not be publicly opened. You may contact the Procurement office aim wc wll Identify those transportation firms submitting proposals. Other information will not be revealed until after the evaluation process is completed. Proposals will be taken under advisement upon opening, and apparent acceptable proposers will be contacted for further negotiations as needed. Please do not contact the evaluation team after submission of your proposals. They will contact you when and if necessary. I certify that the above ADDENDUM #1 OF and we to LRSD RFP95-014, Student Transportation O li LJVWKXVAIU XlCUlOUVlUl Services, which opens at 2\n00 p,m, Central Time. Tuesday. May 9.199S has been received. Signature of Official Signing Proposal Date A Proposal may not be considered if this addendum is not signed and returned to the Procurement Department, either with opening time. your proposal or prior to proposalRFP 95-014, ADDENDUM #1 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Page 2 of 4 DOCUMENT ID #1, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (continued) DATE: APRIL 25,1995 5. The number of students being served by taxicabs has dropped substantially from last year. What is the reason for this change and will it continue to reduce at this rate in ensuing years? Two events occurred that made possible the reduction of students in taxicabs. First, the state provided additional buses in 1994-95. Second, additional students were assigned to the more remote schools which made it cost effective to transport the students by bus. 6. Please explain the difference between the number of buses required for total service (205) on page 3, Section 1 and the number of drivers required (222 + 23 subs) on page 11, Section 1. Currently, not all authorized positions are filled. The difference between 222 and 205 is 17. This represents the number of vacancies, drivers on extended leave, and suspended drivers. Not all substitute positions are filled. Three substitute drivers have duties that are not related to the regular routes and seven (7) substitute positions are vacant. 7. Please list the number of staff and position/title of the staff that will be retained by the District for Special Education, contract monitoring, and scheduling. The following positions are expected to be maintained by the District: A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. 1. J. 1 Director of Transportation 1 Shop Foreman 1 Executive Administrative Assistant 1 Operations Manager 1 Router/Supervisor 1 Special Education Supervisor/Dispatcher 1 Supervisor/Dispatcher 1 Payroll Clerk/Secretary 2 Mechanics 80 Drivers (Most Senior)RFP 95-014, ADDENDUM #1 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Page 1 of 4 1. 2. 3. 4. DOCUMENT ID #1, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DATE: APRIL 25,1995 Is it correct to assume that the taxicab portion of the service will be part of the State Magnet/M-to-M block? Yes, the taxicab portion of the service is part of the State Magnet/M-to-M block. What are the current rates charged by taxicab providers? The current rate charged by the taxicab company are $1.00 per mile and $1.00 per pick-up and drop-off. Who are the current providers for taxicab service? Black and White Cab Company is the current vendor. What mandates in regard to liability insurance and driver training are required by the District for taxicab operators? The contract paragraphs are as follows: 4. The Black and White Cab Company will comply with all city, state, and federal ordinances and regulations applicable to the operation of a commercial cab system. 5. All drivers for the Black and White Cab Company will be safe, well- trained drivers and participate in regular safety meetings. All vehicles in the Black and White Cab Company system are safe and well maintained and conform to all applicable city, state or federal regulations pertaining to the transportation of the general public. 6. The Black and White Cab Company is responsible for appropriately insuring the vehicles, drivers, and student passengers that are subjects of this agreement.RFP 95-014, ADDENDUM #1 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Page 3 of 4 DOCUMENT ID #1, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (continued) DATE: APRIL 25,1995 8. 9. 10. Is it correct to assume that the District will retain or offer employment to the most senior drivers, and all aides? How many full time subs will be retained by the District? Employment will be offered to the most senior employees regardless of whether or not they are classified as aides or drivers. All aides are required to have the same credentials as drivers and are qualified drivers. Therefore some individuals classified as aides will be part of the driver pool available for employment by the contractors. Eleven (11) full time substitutes are among the 80 most senior employees and will be retained by the District. Does the District pay Social Security for all employees? yes, the District pays 7.65% for Social Security for all drivers. How many video cameras boxes and video cameras does the District currently maintain? Are these utilized on all three blocks? If not, which blocks require the use of video cameras? Does the District have policies in regard to the application of video cameras? Will you share those policies? The District has 102 boxes currently installed. There are fourteen (14) 8mm cameras currently being used by the District. The boxes are installed in buses assigned to all three blocks and in Special Education buses. Since the use of cameras is a fairly new procedure for the District, no formal policy is currently in place to govern their use. The boxes are in the following buses: 3 4 5 8 11 12 16 17 21 26 27 29 30 36 46 49 51 54 56 60 61 63 64 65 70 71 91 95 121 124 125 127 128 129 133 135 136 137 138 139 140 143 144 145 147 148 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 160 161 163 167 177 178 179 180 181 185 186 189 191 200 201 202 206 207 209 210 211 213 216 217 219 220 222 223 228 229 230 231 233 234 239 240 258 261 ^63 267 268 276 277 281 2M 29M 34M 35M 63MRFP 95-014, ADDENDUM #1 LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT Page 4 of 4 DOCUMENT ID #1, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (continued) DATE: APRIL 25,1995 11. Will the contractor be permitted to utilize District owned radios? If so, what is the frequency and general condition of District owned radios? Are the radios under a maintenance agreement at this time? If so, who does the maintenance and what are the terms and costs? The contractor can use the District radios. The radios are in good condition. All new buses have new radios and the District replaced 75 radios this year. The frequencies used by the base station are 463.87500 and 468.87500. There is no maintenance agreement. 12. Will the District warrant Regulatory Compliance in regard to the facility, including underground storage tanks? Yes, the District will warrant its current facility to be in Regulatory Compliance. 13. What are the number of days of student transportation required annually for service? The state requires 178 days of student attendance. 14. What are the licensing costs for school bus driver certification? Please itemize. A. B. C. Arkansas CDL Application Arkansas CDL $20.00 $14.00 D. Defensive Driving - This is currently done within the Transportation Department at no cost to the driver. School Bus Driver Orientation required by the State is also done internally. 15. What are the unemployment rights of school bus drivers in Arkansas? 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Pretrip Review Test 1. Inspection and Basic Control Skills 2. Steering System Visual Aids Air Suspension Parts Visual Aids 4. Suspension System Visual Aids 5. Pretrip Visual Aids with Accompanying Around Sequence Walk B. General Knowledge Test 3. 1. Warning Devises Visual Aids 2 . Right Turn Visual Aids 3. Left Turn Visual Aids 4. Looking Ahead Visual Aid 5. Following Distance Visual Aids 6. Blind Spots Mirrors Visual Aids 7. Steering Handhold Visual Aid 8. Backing Visual Aide C. Passenger Endorsement Test D. Review Test E. Air Brakes Test 1. Air Brakes Parts Visual Aids 1 Received F. Basic Control Skills, Obstacle Course 1. Straight Line Backing, Forward Stop Visual Aid 2. Backward Serpentine Visual Aid 3. Right Turn Visual Aid 4. Alley Dock Visual Aid 2Southern Defensive and Commercial Driving License Seminars Inc. Commercial Driver License Training Program COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE PRE-TRIP REVIEW TEST 1. How long may an unsafe vehicle be put out of service? A. B. C. D. Second inspection by the Georgia State Patrol. Until the driver fixes it.- Until the owner fixes it. Either B or C. Pg. 2-1, Line 5. 2. Inspection of vehicle by the driver is mandated by: Federal and State laws. Pg 2-1/Line 3. B. C. D. Local school system laws. Is not required. Is only a matter of professionalism. 3. While on a trip, what should you check on a regular basis? A. B. C. D. Watch gauges. Use your senses. Check critical items when you stop. All of the above. Pg. 2-1/Lines 10,11,13. 4. Vehicle inspection is intended for which purpose? A. B. C. D. To maintain good driving skills. To know your vehicle better. To find problems that could cause a crash or breakdown, pg. 2-1 / For professionalism. Line 7,8. 5. Inspection of A. B. C. T5T your vehicle should be done\nOnly before a trip. Only after a trip. Before and after a trip. pg. All of the above. 2-1/Lines 9,20. 6. Your are checking your brakes and suspension system for a pre-trip inspection\nwhich of these statements is true? A. B. C. D. Brake shoes should not have oil, grease, or brake fluid on them. Brake pads should not have brake fluid on them. One missing leaf in the leaf springs can be dangerous. All of the above, pg, 2-2/Line 25 and Pg. 2-3/Line 8. 7. What is the minimum tread depth requirement for front tires? A. B. C. D. 4/32 inch, pq. 2/32 inch. 1/2 inch. 3/4 inch. 2-2/Line 1. Page Two - CDL Pre-Trip Review Test 8 . You may not run which of the following on the front wheels of your vehicle\nA, B, C, D, Regrooved tires. Recapped tires. Retreaded tires. All of the above\u0026lt; Pg- 2-2/Line 11, 9. The parking or emergency brake on a heavy vehicle can only be held in position by something that cannot leak away, example would be: An A, B, C, D, Fluid pressure. Spring pressure. Pg- 5-4/Lines 4-7, From bottom of page. Air pressure. All of the above. 10. A driver's brakes may be adversely affected if they have the following substance on them. A, B, C, D, Oil Grease Brake fluid ftTl of the above. Pg* 22/Line 11, From bottom of page. 11, Steering wheel play of more than can make it hard to steer. A. B, C, D, Two (2) degrees. Four (4) degrees. Three (3) degrees. Ten (10) degrees, Pg- 22/Lines 13 From bottom of page. 12. Which of the following is not a key part of the suspension system? A, B, C, Spring hangers. Torque rod. Pitman arm. Pg, 2-2/Fig, 2-1 D._ All of_the above,. 13, Which of the following should be on your bus at all times in case of an emergency? A, B, C, D, Fire extinguishers. Spare electrical fuses if needed. Warning devices for parked vehicle. All of the above. Pg- 2-4/Lines 12-14, 14, Which of these statements about drugs is true? A, B, A driver can use any prescription drug while driving. Amphetamines such as pep pills or bennies can be used to C, D, help the driver to stay alert. The use of drugs is a hazard,Pg- 2-48/Par, 1, All of the above. 15, Which of the following is not an emergency equipment item? Aj. B, C, D, Shackle bracket Pg- 2-3/Fig, 2-2, Fire Extinguisher Spare electrical fuses Reflectors, Page Three - CDL Pre-Trip Revie'7 Test 16. Which one of the following skills is not required to be demonstrated for safe operation of a commercial vehicle? A. B. C. D. Accelerating. Passenger Control. Pg . 2-12-Sub 2.2 Basic Control of Your 17. 18. Steering. Braking. Vehicle, Par. 1. The proper way to hold the steering wheel is: A. B. C. D. Pg. 2-13/Line 5. Firmly with both hands on opposite sides of the wheel. Firmly with both hands as close to the 12 o'clock position as possible. Loosely with both hands on opposite sides of the wheel to facilitate the return of the wheel after cornering the vehicle. All of the above. Which of these statements concerning tires and driving is true? hot weather A. B. C. D. If a tire is too hot to touch, you should drive on it to cool it off. You should inspect your tires every two hours or every 100 miles when driving in very hot weather. Pg. 2-31/Sub 2.10 The air pressure of a tire decreases as the temperature of a tire increases. All of the above. * 19. To check the free play of manual slack adjusters on \"5\" braking systems, you should park: cam 20. 21. 22. A. B. On level ground and apply the parking brake and the service brake. Park on level ground, chock the wheels, and turn off Lines 9,If C. D. the parking brakes, pg. 5-6/Sub. 5.3 Inspecting Air Brake Sys., Park on level ground and drain the air pressure before adjusting. Park on a slight grade, release the parking brake, apply the service brake, and check for vehicle movement. A driver should inspect the bus: A. B. D. Before each trip only. After each trip only. Before and after each trip. Pg. 2-1/Sub 2.1.Vehicle Inspection, Only when directed by a mechanic. Lines 7,20. Which of these is a sign of tire failure? A. B. C. D. Steering that feels heavy. A loud bang. Vibration. All of the- above. Pg. 2-40/Line 4 From bottom/Pg. 2-41/Par. 1,^ You must have a commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement to drive: A. B. C. D. A vehicle transporting small arms ammunition. A vehicle with placards. Pg. 2-50/Par. 4 \u0026amp; 6. A vehicle with more than 15 passengers including the driver. A vehicle with more than 16 passengers including the driver. Driving In Very Hot Weather/Lines 3,4. Page Four - CDL Pre-Trip Review Test 23. Which of the following is not a part of the pre-trip inspection? A. B. C. D. Engine oil level. PVC regulator. Pg. Condition of hoses. 2-7/Lines 5,6,18. Worn electrical wiring insulation. 24. Under what conditions may a bus have recapped or regrooved tires? A. B. C. D. The tires may not be on the front wheels. Pg. 2-2/Line 11. The tires may be on any or all of the wheels. Only when speeds will be less than 40 mph. Only on the outside of dual wheels. 25. An on-route inspection should include checking for: A. B. C. D. Tire over-heating. Brake over-heating. Cargo securement. All of the above. Pg. 2-12/Lines 18,19,20. 26. Which of the following lists the three types of emergency equipment A. B. C. you must have on your bus? ) D. Reflectors, fire extinguisher, and a tire repair kit. A hydraulic jack, fire extinguisher, and signal flares. Fire extinguisher, spare fuses unless equipped with. circuit breakers and reflectors. Pg. 2-4/Par. 2. First aid kit, spare fuses unless equipped with circuit breakers and fire extinguisher. 27. Drivers of trucks and truck-tractors must inspect their vehicle's cargo: A. B. C. D. Every two hours or 100 miles. Every 100 miles. Every three hours or 150 miles and after every break. Pg. 2-12/ Par. 2\nPg. 3-1/Sub 3.1-Inspec Cargo-Par. 2. Every hour regardless of miles. 28. A vehicle may feel this way if a tire is about to fail: A. B. C. D. Light. Heavy. Pg. 2-41/Par.2. Out of control. Overpowered. 29. Engine coolant can safely be checked: A. B. C. Anytime. At night. After a trip. After enaine is cool. Pg. 31/Sub. 2.10 Driving in Very Hot Weather/Line 4 From bottom of page. 30. Clean windows help reduce A. B. C. D. Glare. Pg. 2-28/Par. 5. Visibility. Reaction. Perception. what on your windshield at night? Page Five - CDL Pre-Trip Review Test 31. When you inspect your bus, make sure that: A. B. C. D. Every other hand hold and railing is secure. Emergency exit handles have been removed. Rider signaling devices are working. Pg. 4-1/Line 3^Frombottom All of the above are true. 32. When driving a commercial vehicle, what blood alcohol concentration? you are considered DWI at 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. -2/Par. 2/ Line 4. A. B. C. D. . 10%. .07%. .05%. .04%. Pg. 1-4/Lines 8,9 From bottom of page. If you're driving a commercial vehicle with alcohol on your breath, you'll be put out of service for: A. B. C. D. 24 hours. Pq. 1-4/Lines 4,5 From bottom of page. 36 hours. 48 hours. 72 hours. Service brakes should initially be checked by the driver at what speed? A. B. C. D. 20 mph. 30 mph. 5 mph. Pg. 2-11/Par. 4. 55 mph. Drivers of trucks and truck-tractors must inspect their vehicle within the first miles of their trip. A. B. C. D. 50. 100. 75. 25. Pg. 2-12/Par. 2. You are checking trip inspection. your steering and exhaust systems in a pre- Which of these problems, if found, should be fixed before the vehicle is driven? A. B. C. D. A small leak of power steering fluid.pg. 2-2/Line 4,5 From botto Steering wheel play of more than 10 degrees (2 inches on a 20-inch steering wheel).pg. 2-2/Line 1-3 From bottom of page. Leaks in the exhaust system.pg, 2-4/Line 9. All of the above. The fine for having more than one license is\nA. B. C. D. $10,000. 7,500. 2,500. 5,000. Pg. 1-3/Sub 1.2 Other Safety Act Rules/Lines 3,4. You are performing a pre-trip inspection, statements is true? Which of the following B. C. Rust around wheel nuts may mean that they are loose. Cracked wheels or rims can be used if they have been welded. A vehicle can be safely driven with one missing lug nut on a wheel. Page Six - CDL Pre-Trip Review Test 39. Which'of the following items is checked in a pre-trip inspection? A. B. C. D. Whether all vehicle lights are working and clean. Wiper blades. Cargo securement. All of the above, pg. 2-1/Sub. 2.1 Vehicle Inspection/Par. 4/ 40. Line 8,11. Which of the following will help keep an engine cool in hot weather? A. B. C. D. Proper V-belt tightness. Pg. 2-32/Par. 2. Avoiding high-speed driving. Pg. 2-32/Par. 5. Making sure the engine has the proper amount of oil. All of the above. Pg. 2-31-Sub. 2.10-Driving in Hot Weather- Par. 3. 41. You must notify your employer within how many days of any traffic violation conviction? A. B. C. D, 7 days. 30 days. Pg. 1-3/Sub. 1.2 Other Safety Act Rules/Lines 9,10. 100 days. None of the above. VEHICLE INSPECTION AND BASIC CONTROL SKILLS TESTS All Vehicles X Cocnpailrocnt :vcl .................. lant levd 0 , . 0 Engine Start ^^*er jiecring fluid 0 c 1 u I ch / g earth il I . . 0 a'aier pump alternator . , . 0 , . 0 air compraior ... 0 any leaka 0 air buaer sounds . . . 0 oil pressure builds . . 0 ammeier/volimeter . 0 air braJee check . . . . 0 steering play 0 parking brake . . . , mirrors, windshield wipers ........................ lighting indicators horn(s) ..................... hcaier/defrosier . . , 0 . 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 . 0 Optional Equipocnl Vehicle axles . 2 3 Trailer axles ,,12 Air brakes , , , Yes No safcty/etnergency equip. 0 Truck/School Bus/Tractor Trailer Coach/Transit Bus Front Sujprntioo spring................ spring mount shock absorber , 0 , 0 0 Front of VehtHe lights................. steering box , , 0 0 steering linkage . . 0 Trailer Front i4r/elec connect , . 0 header board , , , , 0 ligh is/reflectors , , 0 Front of Vehicle lights................. 0 Front Wheel rims ........... 0 hub oil seal . . . 0 tires , , lug nuu 0 0 Under Vehicle - Rear of Tractor drive shaft . . 0 Side of Trailer landing gear . 0 Passenger Items passenger entry , , , 0 emergency exils , , , 0 exhaust ayitem ... 0 lighti/reflectors . . 0 seating 0 frame 0 (doors, lies) frame , . , , 0 0 Driver/Entry Area window/door mirror 0 Front Brake slack adjustor , 0 chamber hoses , , drum , 0 0 0 School Bus Only passenger entry . , 0 emergency exiu , , 0 seating 0 Drivcr/Fuel Ara Wheels rims , , , tires . , , axle seals ' lug nuis , spacers , F R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Front Drakci/Suspcauion air leak 0 door, mirror fuel unk , , Whods . , 0 . . 0 , , 0 iires . , , axle seals lug nuts spacers , F R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rear Suspensioo springs ........... 0 0 spring mounts . 0 0 torsion, shocks , 0 0 Tractor Oqly air/elec lines , , catwalk Coupling System mounting bolts , safety laich , , , platform .......... release arm , , , kingpin/apron , Sliding 5lh Wheel locking pins , . . lights, reflectors splash guards , 0 , 0 , 0 . 0 . 0 , 0 , 0 . 0 , 0 , 0 Suspension springs . 0 0 Front WTiecl rirru ........... hub oil seal tires ........... lug nuts . , , 0 0 0 0 spring mounts ... 00 Brakes slack adjustor ... 00 Fuel Tank Area fuel lank , , , , 0 Rear Brakes slack adjusior . 0 0 chamber hoses . , drum , 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rear of Vehicle lights, reflectors . , 0 signal/brake lighii 0 Basic Control Skills Right Turn Pullups Encroachments Cearance 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 Straight Line Backing Pullups chamber hoses , , drum , , 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rear of Trailer lights/refleciors . . 0 doors, lies 0 0 12 3 4 5 Encroachments 0 12 3 4 5 Slop Line (2 (3.) 0 1 Baggage Compartroents emergency equip , , . 0 doors secure Rear Wheels rims tires ........... axle seals , . lug nuts , . . spacers , , . 0 F R .,00 ,,00 ,-.0 0 ,,00 , , 0 Brakea/Suspcitsioo air leaks 0. ...0........ 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Which of these is a good rule to follow when driving at night? A. Keep your speed slow enough to stop within the range of B. C. your headlights. Pg. 2-28/lines 1, 2, 3. Look directly at oncoming headlights. Keep your instrument lights bright. 2. The parking brake should be tested while the vehicle is: A. B. C. Parked. Moving slowly. Going downhill. Pg. 2-11/Par. 3 3. Which of the following tells a driver when to shift gears? A. Road speed. B. C. Engine speed. All of the above. Pg. 2-14/Sub. 2-3 shifting gears/Par. 5,6. 4. You are checking your wheels and rims during a pre-trip inspection. Which of these statements is true? pg_ 2-2/Par.2/ A. Rust around wheel nuts may mean they are loose. Ling 4, B. C. Cracked wheels or rims can be used if they have been welded. Mismatched lock rings can be used on the same vehicle. 5. Right after it starts to rain, which of the following is true? A. B. C. The rain mixed with oil o n the road. The road becomes very slippery. All of the above. Pg. 2-21/Par. 10. 6. If you find yourself being tailgated, you should: A. B. IL. Increase your following distance. Open up room in front of you. All of the above Pg. 2-24/Line 5. 7. If a straight vehicle (no trailer or articulation) goes into a front-wheel skid. it will: A. B. Slide sideways and spin out. Go straight ahead but will turn if you turn the steering wheel. Go straight ahead even if the steering wheel is turned^ Pg. 2-42/Line 5,6 from bottom of page. Page Two - General Knowledge Test - CDL 8. How do you test hydraulic brakes for a leak? A. B. Move the vehicle slowly and see if it stops when the brake is applied? With the vehicle stopped, pump the pedal three times, apply firm pressure, then hold for five (5) seconds and see if 9. C. the pedal moves. Pg. 2-11/Par. 2 Step on the brake pedal and the accelerator at the same time and see if the vehicle moves. For an average driver, driving 55 miles per hour on dry pavement, it will take about A. B. IL. to bring the vehicle to a stop: Twice the length of the vehicle. Half the length of a football field. The length of a football field. Pg- 2-20/Sub. 2.6 Controlling Speed/Par. 6 10. You are driving a 40 foot vehicle at 45 miles per hour. Driving conditions are ideal (dry pavement, good visibility.) The least amount of space that you should keep in front of your vehicle to be safe is the distance you travel in: A. B. C. 3 seconds. 4 seconds. 5 ^Qgonjg,, Pg. 2-23/Par. 5/Line 7. 11. Driving under the influence of any drug which makes you drive unsafely is: A. C. Permitted if it is prescribed by a doctor. Against.,the lav. Pg. 2-48/Par. 1/Lines 3,4. Permitted if it is a diet pill or cold medicine. 12. A moving vehicle ahead of center on the rear. you has a red triangle with an orange What does this mean? A. C. The vehicle is hauling hazardous materials. Tt may he slow moving vehicle It may be oversized. Pg. 2-36/Par. 10. 13. You wish to turn right from a two-lane, two-way street to another. Your vehicle is so long that you must swing wide to make the turn. Which of these drawings shows how the turn should be made? A i I B I I t I C c Pg. 2-25/Par. 3 Line 6. Page Three - General Knowledge Test - CDL 14. You are driving a heavy vehicle and must exit a highway using an off ramp that curves downhill. You should: A. B. C. Use the posted speed limit for the off ramp. Slow down to a safe speed before the turn. Wait until you are in the turn before downshifting. Pg. 2-33/Par. 3/Line 5 15. How far ahead should a driver look ahead of the vehicle while driving: A. B. C. 9 12 18 12 seconds. 15 seconds. Pg. 2-16/Sub. 2.4 Seeing/Par. 4. 21 seconds. 16. Which of these statements about using mirrors is true? A. B. C. You should look at a mirror for several seconds at a time. There are you. h blind spots II Pg. 2-16/Par. 9, Line 3. that your mirror cannot show A lane change requires you to look at the mirrors twice. 17. You must park on the side of a level, straight, two-lane road. Where should you place the three reflective triangles? A. B. C. One within 10 feet of the rear of the vehicle/ one about 100 feet to the rear, and one about 200 feet to the rear. One within 10 feet of the rear of the vehicle, one about 100 feet to the rear, and one about 100 feet from the front of the vehicle. Pg- 2-19/Fig. 2-8, Lines 4,5,6. One about 50 feet from the rear of the vehicle, one about 100 feet to the rear, and one about 100 feet from the front of the vehicle. 18. Which of these statements about cargo loading is true? A. B. Ox The legal, maximum weight allowed by a state is safe for all driving conditions. If cargo is loaded by the shipper, the driver is not responsible for overloading. State regulations dictate legal weight limits. Pg- 3-1/3.1 Inspecting Cargo/Par. 3. 19. Which of these is the most important thing to remember about emergency braking? A. B. C. Disconnecting the steering axle brakes will keep the vehicle in a straight line. Never do it without downshifting first. If the wheels are skidding, you cannot control the vehicle. Pg. 2-39/Line 9,10 from bottom of page. 20. You are traveling down a long/ stepp hill. fade and then fail. A. B. What should you do? Your brakes begin to Downshift. Pump the brake pedal. Look for an escape ramp or escape route. Pg- 2-40/Par. 5,6,7,8. 21. The most common cause of serious vehicle skids is: Ax B. C. Driving too fast for road conditions. Pg- 2-20/Sub./2.6 Control- Poorly adjusted brakes. Bad tires. ling Speed/Line 1. (also) 2-41/Sub. 2.14 Skid Control \u0026amp; Recovery - Par. 5. Page Four General Knowledge Test CDL 22.' How do you correct a rear-wheel acceleration skid? A. B. C. Increase acceleration to the wheels. Apply the brake. Stop accelerating and push in the clutch, pg. 2-41/Sub 2.14 23. Skid Control \u0026amp; Recovery, Par. 6,Line Which of these statements about downshifting is true? A. B. C. When you downshift for a curve, you should do so before you enter the curve, pg. 2-15/Par. 4. When you downshift for a hill, you should do so after you start down the hill. When you downshift for a curve, you should do so after you enter the curve. 24. Which of these statements about tires and hot weather driving is true? You should inspect your tires more often. 2.10 If a tire is too hot to touch, you should drive on it A. B. C. to cool it off. Recapped tires are less likely to fail in hotcweather than new tires. 25. What should you do if your vehicle hydroplanes? A. B. C. Start stab braking. Accelerate slightly. Release the accelerator. Pg. 2-21/Par. 11/Line 4,5. 26. You should avoid driving through deep puddles or flowing water, but if you must, what will keep your brakes working? A. Gently pressing the brake pedal while driving through water. 27. 28. 29. B. C. Pg. 2-31/Lines 1,2,5,6,7. Applying hard pressure on both the brake pedal and accelerator after coming out of the water. Disconnecting the steering axle brakes after coming out of the water. Which fires can you put out with water: A. B. C. Tire fires. Pg. 2-44/3rd line from bottom of page. Gasoline fires. Electrical fires. Cargo inspections: A. B. C. (Pg. 3-1/Sub 3.1 Inspecting Cargo/ Should be done after every break during driving. Lines 7,8.) Are only needed if hazardous materials are being hauled. Should be done every 6 hours or 300 miles. The center of gravity of a load: A. B. C. Should be kept as high as possible. Can make a vehicle more likely to roll over on curves. Pg. 3-2/Lines 3,4 from bottom, Pg. 3-4/Sub 3.4 Tank Is only a problem if the vehicle is overloaded. Vehicles/Par.2. Page Five - General Knowledge Test - CDL 30. Which of these statements about backing a heavy vehicle is true? A. B. C. You should avoid backing whenever you can.pg. 2-13/Par. 9. when you use a helper, he/she Should'use Clear voice (spoken) signals. It is safer to back toward the right side of the vehicle than to the driver's side. 31. You do not have a Hazardous Materials Endorsement on your Commercial Driver License. A. B. When can you legally haul hazardous materials? Never Only when the load does not regui p p 1 a arHs Pg- 2-50/Par. 5/ Lines 3,4,5. 32. Which of these statements about staying alert to drive is true? A. A half-hour break for coffee will do more to keep you alert 33. B. C. than a half-hour nap. There are drugs that can overcome being tired. The only thing that can cure fatigue is slP-\u0026amp;p. Pg- Line 4. 2-46/Par. 5/ Which of these statements about drinking alcohol is true? A. B. Some people aren't affected by drinking. A few beers have the same effect on driving as a. few shnt.s Pg. 2-46/Box / 5th item. C. of whiskey. Coffee and fresh air can sober a person up. 34. As the Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAG) goes up, what happens? A. B. C. The effects of alcohol decrease. The person becomes more dangerous if allowed to drive. Pg- 2-47/ The drinker can sober up in less time. Par. 6. 35. An after trip inspection is done at: A. B. C. The end of the day. The end of the trip. On each vehicle operated. All of the above Pg. 2-1/Sub. 2.1. Vehicle Inspection/ 36. Par. 5/Lines 2,3. Which of these statements about double-clutching and shifting is true? A. C. It should be done when the road is slippery. You can use the sound of the engine to tell you when to shift. Pg. 2-14/Sub 2.3 Shifting gears/Par. 7. You must use both clutch pedals. 37. Which of these statements about brakes is true? A. B. C. The heavier a vehicle or the faster it is moving, the more heat the brakes have to absorb to stop it. Pg- 2-20/Par. 8. Brakes have more stopping power when they get very hot. Brake drums cool very quickly. 38. Front wheel tread depth should be at least: A. B. C. 4/32. 2/32. 1/4. Pg. 2-2/Line 1. Page Six - General Knowledge Test CDL 39. Which of these statements about speed management is true? A. Empty trucks always stop in a shorter distance than fully loaded ones. B. As the speed of a vehicle doubles, also doubles. its stopping distance C. Choose a driving speed that lets you stop in the space that you can see ahead. Pg. 2-27/Par. 9. 40. You are driving a 40 foot vehicle at 35 miles per hour. Driving conditions are ideal (dry pavement, good visibility.) The least amount of space that you should keep in front of your vehicle to be safe is the distance you travel in: A. B. C. 3 seconds. 5 seconds. 4 seconds. Pg. 2-23/Par. 5/Lines 4,5. 41. The key principle in balancing cargo weight is to keep the load\nA. B. C. To the front. To the rear. Centered. 42. High beams should: A. B. C. Be used whenever it is safe and legal to do so. Pg.- 2-29/Par. 1. Be turned on when an oncoming driver does not dim his/her lights. Be dimmed when you are within 100 feet of another vehicle. 43. Stab braking\nA. B. C. Should never be used. Involves locking the wheels. Pg. 2-39/Par. 8/Lines 1,2,3. Involves steady pressure on the brake pedal. 44. Brakes can get wet when you drive through a heavy rain, brakes can cause: Wet 45. 46. A. B. C. Wheel lockup. Trailer jackknife. Both of the above. Pg. 2-30/Last Par. For wheels, other than frort wheels, tread depth should be at least: A. B. C. 4/32. 2/32. Pg. 2-2/Line 2. 1/4 You are checking your steering and exhaust systems during a pre-trip Pg. 2-2/Par. 4/a. Lines 6,7,8. inspection. Which of these statements is true? B. C. Steering wheel play of more than 10 degrees (2 inches on a 20-inch steering wheel) can make it hard to steer. Leaks in the exhaust system are not a problem if they are outside the cab. Some leakage of power steering fluid is normal. Page Seven - General Knowledge Test - CDL 47. Your vehicle is in a traffic emergency and may collide with another vehicle if you do not take action, is a good rule to remember at such a time? Which of these 48. 49. 50. A. B. C. Stopping is always the safest action in a traffic emergency. Heavy vehicles can almost always turn mnrp gnirkly than they can stop Pg. 2-38/Par. 2/Line 3. Leaving the road is always more risky than hitting another vehicle. If a vehicle is loaded with very little weight on the drive axle, what can happen? 4^ B. C. Poor traction Pg. 3-2/Par. 11/Lines 5,6. Damage to drive axle tires. Better handling. Cargo that can shift should have at least A. B. C. 2 3 4 Pg. 3-3/Par. 3. tiedown(s). You must inspect for cargo overloading and correct balance: A. Before each trio. Pg 3-1/Sub 3.1 Inspecting Cargo/Par. 1. B. C. During the trip. After the trip. 51. When driving through work zones, you should: A. B. C. S. Turn on flashers. Drive slowly. Use your brake lights to warn drivers behind you. Do all of the above. Pg. 2-34/Sub 2-12 Seeing Hazards/Par. 5 52. Lines 5,6. You must park on the side of a straight four-lane divided highway. Where should you place the reflective triangles? A. B. C. D. One within ten feet of the rear of the vehicle, one about 100 feet of the rear and one about 200 feet tn the rear. Pg. 2-20/Fig. 2-10. One within ten feet of the rear of the vehicle, one about 100 feet to the rear of the vehicle, and one about 100 feet to the front of the vehicle. One about 50 feet to the rear of the vehicle, one about 100 feet to the rear of the vehicle, and one about 100 feet in front of the vehicle. One within ten feet of the front of the vehicle, one within 200 feet of the front of the vehicle, and one about 100 feet of the rear. 53. According to the Driver's Manual, why should you limit the use of A. B. your horn? Because it can startle other drivers. Because of vehicles with air brakes, Pg. 2-19/Lines 11,12. it.can use air needed C. D. to stop. Because the horn is not a good way to let others know you are there. You should keep both hands tightly gripping the steering wheel at all times. Page Eight - General Knowledge Test CDL 54. Which of these statements about accelerating is true? A. When traction is poor, more power should be applied to the accelerator. (Pg. 2-12/Sub 2.2 Basic 55. 56. B. C. D. Rough acceleration can causp mpchanicaidamage.Control of your  ~ I I ,1 _   A h i c X p You should feel a jerking motion if you are accelerating par. 4, yog\nvehicle properly. All of the above are true. Line 2. Which of these statements about certain types of cargo is true? A. B. C. D. Unstable loads, such as hanging mPAh andlivestock -ean require extra caution on curves. Pg. 3-5/Sub. 3.5 Other Cargo Oversize loads can be hauled without special permits during times when the road is not busy. Loads that consist of liquids in bulk do not cause handling problems because they are very heavy. When liquids are hauled, the tanks should always be loaded totally full.  Which of these is a proper use of vehicle lights? A. B. C. D. Turning on your headlights during the day when visibility is reduced by rain or snow. Flashing your brake lights to warn someone behind you of a hazard that requires slowing down. Flashing your brake lights to warn someone behind you that you are going to stop.' All of the above. Pg. 2-17/Last Par. on page/Also/pg.2-llPar. 8. 57. A key principle to remember about loading cargo is to keep the loadwhere? A. B. C. D. To the front. To the rear. As high as possible. Balanced in the cargo area. 58. You are driving on a straight level highway at 50 miles per hour. There are no vehicles ahead of you and suddenly a tire blows out on your vehicle.- The first thing you should do is? A. Stay off the brake until your vehicle has slowed down. Pg- 2-41/ B. C. D. Quickly steer on to the shoulder. Begin light braking. Begin emergency braking. Par. 5. 59. Pg. 2-26/Par. 3/^ Line 3-5\nPg. 2-B. 38/Par. 2/Line 3. Which of these is a good thing to remember when crossing or entering traffic with a heavy vehicle? C. D. Heavy vehicles need larger gaps in traffic than cars do. The best way to cross traffic is to pull the vehicle part way across one lane and block one lane while waiting for one lane to clear. The heavier the load, the smaller the gap to cross traffic. Because heavy vehicles are easier to see you can count on other drivers to move out of your way or slow down for you. Needing Special Atten./Par. 2 Page Nine - Genera]_ Knowledge.Test I1L 60. You are checking your steering and exhaust system in a pre-trip inspection. Which of these problems, if fixed before the vehicle is driven? you find it, should be 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. A. B. C. D. Steering wheel play of more than ten degrees. Leaks in the exhaust system. A small leak of power steering fluid. All of the above. Pg. 2-2/Par. 4. Your vehicle has hydraulic brakes. While traveling on a level road you press the brake pedal and you find it goes to the floor, which of these statements is true? A. B. C. D. You should not downshift if you have an automatic transmission. Pumping the brake pedal may bring the pressure up so you can stop the vehicle. Pg. 2-40/Par. 2. The parking brake won't work either because it is part of the braking system. All of the above are true. You are checking your tires on a pre-trip inspection, these statements is true? Which of A. B. C. D. Dual tires should be touching each other. Tires of mismatched sizes should not be used on the same vehicle, pg. 2-2/Line 8. Radial and bias tires can be used together on the same vehicle. 2/32 of an inch tread depth is safe on the front tires. Which statement describes brake fade? A. B. C. D. It can be caused by the brakes getting very hot. Pg. 2-33/Par. 5/ Lines 6-8. It can be corrected by letting up on the brakes for one or two seconds and then reapplying them. It is a problem that only occurs with drum brakes. All of the above are true. You are driving on a two lane road, and an oncoming driver drifts into your lane and headed straight for you. the best action to take? Which of these is A. B. C. D. Brake hard. Steer into the oncoming lane. Steer to the right. Pg. 2-38/Par. 5. Steer on to the left shoulder. Which of these statements about engine overheating is true? A. B. C. D. If your engine overheats within 20 minutes of the end of your trip, you should complete. You should never shut off an overheated engine until it cools. You should never remove the radiator cap on a pressurized system until the system has cooled. Antifreeze is not needed when the weather is warm. Pg. 2-31/Last Par/Lines 6,7. Page Ten - General Knowledge Test CDL 66. You are driving a heavy vehicle with a manual transmission. and you have stopped the vehicle on the shoulder while driving on an uphill grade. Which of these is a good rule to follow when putting the vehicle back in motion up the grade. Keep the clutch slipping while slowly accelerating. Use the parking brake to hold the vehicle until the clutch A. B. C. D. engages. Let the vehicle roll straight backwards a few feet before you engage the clutch. Let the vehicle roll backwards a few feet before you engage the clutch but turn the wheels so that the back moves away from the roadway. 67. Which of these statements is a good thing to do when steering to avoid a crash? A. B. C. Apply the brakes while turning. Steer with one hand so you can turn more quickly. Don't turn any more than is needed to clear what is in your D. way. Pg. 2-38/Par. 4/Line 6,7. Avoid counter steering. 68. You do not have a Hazard Materials Endorsement on your Commercial Driver's License, and you are asked to deliver hazardous materials . in a placarded vehicle, what should you do? A. B. C. Refuse to haul the load. Pg. 2-50/Par. 6/Lines 3-5. 69. 70. 71. D. Take the placards off the vehicle. Haul the load but only to the nearest place where a driver with a Hazardous Materials Endorsement can take over. Haul the load but file a report to the Department of Transportation. As the blood alcohol concentration goes up, what happens? A. B. C. D. The drinker more clearly sees how the alcohol is affecting him.- The effects of alcohol decrease. Judgement and self control are affected. Pg. 2-47/Par. 51. The drinker can sober up in less time. If you need to leave the road in an emergency, what should you do? A. B. C. D. Try to get all your wheels off the pavement. Brake hard as you leave the pavement. Avoid braking until your speed has dropped to at least 20 miles per hour. pg. 2-39/Par. 1. ~ Avoid the shoulder because most shoulders will not support a large vehicle. When should you stop driving? A. B. C. D. After five hours. After seven hours. After nine hours. Whenever you become sleepy. Pg. 2-46/Par. 3. 72. You are driving a long vehicle that makes wide turns, you are drivin on a two lane, two way street, you want to turn left on to another two lane, two way street, how should you accomplish this maneuver? A. You should begin turning the intersection. your vehicle as soon as you enter Page Eleven - General Knowledge Test - CDL B. You should begin turning your vehicle when you are half wav 73. 74. 75. C. D. through the intersection^ Pg- 2-26/Par. 1. You should begin the turn with your vehicle in the left lane of the two lane two way street. You should turn into the left lane of the new street and then move to the right lane when the traffic is gone. Which of these statements about drugs is true? A. B. C. D. 76. 77. 78. 79. A driver can use any prescription drug while driving. Amphetamines, such as pep pills or bennies can be used to help the driver stay alert. The use of drugs can lead to accidents or arrest. Pg. All of the above are true. Which statement describes escape ramps? A. B. C. D. 2-48/Par. They are used to stop runaway vehicles. They are designed to prevent injuries to the driver and passengers. They are designed to prevent damage to vehicles. All of the above are true. Pg. 2-34/Par. 1,2. What will keep an engine cool in hot weather? A. B. C. D. Avoiding high speed driving. Making sure the engine has the right amount of oil. Proper tightness of the V-belt. All of the above. Pg. 2-31/Sub 2.10-Driving in Hot Weather/ Par. 3 S. Pg. 2-32/Par. 2,5. Which of these items are checked in a pre-trip inspection? A. B. C. D. Whether all lights are working and are clean. The condition of the wiper blades. The condition of cargo securement. All of the above. Pg. 2-1/Par. 7. Which of these statements about backing a heavy vehicle are true? A. B. C. D. Backing is always dangerous. You should back and turn toward the driver's side whenever possible. You should use a helper and communicate with hand signals. All of the above. Pg. 2-13/Par. 12.\nPg. 2-14/Par. 1,2. Which of these statements about cold weather driving is true? h. B. C. D. An engine cannot overheat when the weather is very cold. Windshield washer antifreeze should be used. Pg. 2-29/Par. 6. Exhaust leaks are less dangerous when the weather is cold. In snow storms the windshield wipers should be adjusted so they do not make direct contact with the windshield. Which statement is true about controlled braking? A. B. C. D. It can be used while you are turning sharply. It involves locking the wheels for short periods of time. It is used to keep the vehicle in a straight line when braking. Pg. 2-13/Par. 4. All of the above are true. Page Twelve - General Knowledge Test - CDL 80. Which of these is not a good rule to follow when caring for injured at an accident scene? A. B. C. D. If qualified person is helping, then stay out of the way until asked to assist. Stop bleeding by applying direct pressure to the wound. Keep injured person cool. Pg. 2-43/Par. 4/Line 8. Move severely injured persons if there is danger due to fire or passing traffic. 81. For your safety when setting out reflective triangles, what should you do? A. B. Carry triangles at your side. 82. C. D. Hold the triangles between yourself and the oncoming traffic. Pg- 2-19/Line 7,8. Keep the triangles out of sight while you walk to the spot where you set them up. Turn off your flashers. You are driving a new truck that has a manual transmission. What gear will hill grade? you probably have to take for a long steep down 83. 84. 85. 86. A. B. C. D. The same gear you would use to climb the hill. A lower gear than you would use to climb the hill. Pg. 2-33/Par. A higher gear than you would use to climb the hill. None because a newer truck can coast down hill. What is the purpose of retarders? A. B. C. D. To provide emergency brake. To help slow the vehicle while driving and reduce brake wear. Pg. 2-15/Par. 7. To apply extra braking power to the non drive axle. To help prevent skids. What describes hydroplaning? A. B. C. D. Hydroplaning only occurs when there is a lot of water. Hydroplaning only occurs at speeds above 50 miles per hour. Hydroplaning cannot occur when driving through a puddle. Hydroplaning i s more likely if tire pressure is low, pg. 2-21/ Par. 12. Which of these statements about overhead clearance is true? A. B. C. D. You assume that posted clearance signs are correct. The weight of the vehicle changes its height, pg. 2-24/Par. 7/ If the road surface causes your vehicle to tilt toward Li/.s objects at the edge of the road, drive close to the shoulder. Extra speed will cause air to push your vehicle down and give you extra clearance. You must drive on a slippery road, thing to do in such a situation? A. B. C. c Which of these is a good Use a smaller following distance. Apply the brakes while in turns. Slow down gradually. Pg. 2-21/Par. 3/Lines 2,3. D.All of the above. Line 6. Page Thirteen - General Knowledge Test - CDL 87. Which of these statements about vehicle fires is true? A. If cargo in a van or box trailer catches on fire you should 88. 89. 90. B. C. D. open the cargo door as soon as you can. If your engine is on fire, you should open the hood as as you can. If a trailer is on fire, can to put the fire out. soon you should drive as fast as you A burning tire should be cooled with water. Pg. 2-44/Par. 10/ Line 7. Cargo that is not loaded or secured properly can cause what? A. B. C. D. Damage to the vehicle because of overloading. Other highway users could hit or be hit by the loose cargo. Injury to the driver could be caused during a quick stop or crash. All of the above. Pg. 3-1/Par. 2. Which of the following are steering system parts? A. B. C. D. Tie rod, drag link, and spindle. Steering wheel, steering arm, and steering gear. Shackle, axle, and torque rod. A and B above. Pg. 2-2/Fig. 2-1/Key Steering System Parts. Safe operation of a commercial vehicle requires skills in: A. B. C. D. Accelerating and steering. Shifting and braking. A and B. Pg. 2-12/Sub 2.2 Basic Control of Your Vehicle/ Par. 1. None of the above. 0499t WwilP c, Iv V-) .'AS!'*''i :?. lU ? \u0026lt;s A  5\u0026lt;\u0026lt;^ rrt ih SAFE DRIVING PRACTICES 117 I i 1 41 / i i  If you must stop on or b-7y a one-way or divided highway, place warning markers 10 feet\n100 feet, and 200 feet toward the approaching tralTic, See Figure 3-26. Emergency Warning Devices . One Way or Divided Highway Lo] 0 10 100' 200 5 I 1 1 1 5P i|' FIGURE 3-26: PLACING WARNING MARKERS WHEN STOPPED ON A DIVIDED HIGHWAY i T I I \\ ) \\ \\ \\ \\'^ t f \\ V \\ . h a \\ ' V T I, I I 100 i \\ IB 1 I * I I ( I [ V J 1 a i'^ H i\n\u0026gt; I \u0026lt;1 i\nf^'Tj i \u0026gt;4 tj ?\n!. 116 -iJ-4. i -Vj f*. .c : J  *: . 4 , A A ii* .I rutii-i \u0026gt;r\n\u0026lt;, -..V'- 'Tifl A' CHAPTER THREE Sor anythin'go tnh,a ts epVrenvge nnt s sother K Emergency Warning Devices Obstructed View 100-500 h  J 4 General Rule of Thumb: If Line of Sight View is Obstructed Due Io Hill or Curve, Move the Rear Most Triangle Io a Point Back Down the Road So Thal Adequate Warning is Provided FIGURE 3-25: PLACING WARNING MARKERS WHEN AN OBSTACLE IN THE LINE OF VIEW THERE IS RIGHT TURNS rX?? arXBnJ'J\"  ''\"\"''\"a cause of accidents. Here is a set of steps to icuuLc mUCIUciIIS. 1. 2. 3. Plan Ahead - Look at the turn before you get there. Set up for your turn. Signal Your Turn Mirror - Leave sufficient clearance from all obstacles without drifting out of your lane. 4. 5. Have the unit in the gear that you will make the'turn in. Turn the wheel right when the trailer is halfway past the stationary object (telephone pole, car, or curb). 6. 7. Proceed into the turn, checking the mirrors for clearance. Assume the proper lane (the lane closest to the curb). 8. -Adjust speed accordingly. I I I I STEERING TIRE TRAILER TIRES /Left Turns .1 ic i II'. .i il! Wj^n making a turn, be sure you have reached the center of the section before you start the left turn. If you turn too soon, the left side of your vehicle may hit something because of off-l racking. If you are turning into a multi-lane street, enter the right lane as shown in Figure 3-32. p J . f I ? j } I   hI \u0026lt; I i  .1 I f t fr f' I- \u0026gt;i !\u0026lt;  !' t\n/ i\n\"i! I  '!! ! I } i J i 1 i {i i  i I! . 1 i\ni f I  11 i\nh' 1 I h b-f  Hz  f\n1 i i { If There Are Two Left Turn Lanes, Use The Right Hand Lane r i t J li 'I l k t f\ni (\u0026gt; I\n* !\u0026gt; .1 \u0026gt; If 4. 4.' X? i^' !i!-. yS 'Jf! iii'i F^-. 1-iJ' uJ-' '?:t .1. 106 CHAPTER THREE Sbv\ni Kk fife: IK 15 j3' J \u0026gt; ti. t\nit.\n=jS I 'i i:  vt r'- iis ' - ^i\nV-\nv ^3L srf\u0026lt;e t\nJ**\" i-^ i'i V ::S  i,:l -.r V? ii /' r flw fc 5\n5 .'It\nn fi i'i^ .-m' AT\u0026gt;IS I*. a-: if X\\* I i ' \n .wv'h-Or \u0026gt; . AlihrMdyi^6tW6l6el\u0026lt; Be looking beyond iHewiaaieoMbonartbiock.-^^ . \n'r. V. if. 1 i i i J I a [\u0026gt;'* iyij tm,.. I J I J 551 r^a-v?iV'. 1\nif'' V''  t oJ j,  \\ *- A i 1 * . L y FIGURE 3-19: LOOKING AHEAD What to Look For Traffic:, Look for vehicles coming onto the highway, moving into your lane, or turning. Watch for brake lights from slowing vehicles. By seeing these things far enough ahead, you can change your speed or change lanes, if necessary, to avoid a problem. Road conditions: Look for hills and curves  anything for which you will have to slow down or change lanes. Pay attention to traffic signals and signs. If a light has been green for a long time, it will probably change before you get there. Start slowing down and be ready to stop. Traffic signs can alert you to road conditions where you may have to change speed. i J \u0026lt; s I  1 Second Required for Each 10 Feet of Vehicle Length at Speeds Under 40 MPH  Above 40 MPH Use Same Formula, Then Add 1 Second for the Additional Speed \u0026lt; 40 FOOT TRUCK = 4 SECONDS rinirnn \u0026lt; \u0026gt; 60 FOOT TRUCK (TRACTOR-TRAILER) = 7 SECONDS FIGURE 3-29: FORMULA FOR SAFE FOLLOWING DISTANCE Driving too fast is a major cause of fatal crashes. You must adjust your speed according to several conditions. Some of them me traction, cui-veB, visibility, traffic, and hills. Speed and Stopping Distance There are three things that add up to total stopping distance: 1. Perception Distance  I 2. Reaction Distance 3. Braking Distance I / The total stopping distance may also be stated by the following formula: Perception Distance + Reaction Distance + Braking Distance = Total Stopping Distance o I 1 1 r i Perception Distance You sec a hazard and your brain  knows 11 Reaction Distance You release accelerator anti apply the brakes Braking Distance How long It takes you to stop after you pul on brakes i 'I'lic total distance covered by the vehicle before you can brake to a full stop. The time to cover this distance is about six seconds at 55 mph. FIGURE 3-27: TOTAL STOPPING DISTANCE / I . 1  I II  leels rolling again. Otherwise the vehicle may not stay in a alght line. i stopping Distance ea ?n Chapter Three, you read about stopping distance under Speed 'li CejS Opd Stopping Distance. With air brakes, there is an added delay ^coming to a stop: the time it takes for the brakes to work after brake pedal is pushed. With hydraulic brakes (used on cars w ^d smaller trucks), the brakes work at once. However, with air Sbrakes, it takes a little time (up to half a second) for the air to flow ^ugh the lines to the brakes. Thus, the total stopping distance tfor vehicles with air brake systems is made up of four different !f\u0026amp;fl\nctors: ^' Perception Distance ^Reaction Distance Brake Lag Distance Effective. Braking Distance Itotal stopping distance a s r. [I il' BE p.  Ij 2t Miles Per Hour speed Feet Per Second Perception and Reaction Distance P L U S Air Brake Lag Distance P L U S Actual Braking Distance Equals Total Stopping Distance I 1i p  n a 3* FIGURE 5-11: TOTAL STOPPING DISTANCE w air brake lag distance at 55 mph on dry pavement adds about tfeet to the total stopping distance. So, the average driver with od traction and brakes will need over 300 feet to stop when 55 mph. This is longer than a football field. :1( Sv' 'I iV'/'i ri'? safe driving practices I j 109 1 1  1 gg ^pa Driver \u0026gt; Convex f Mirror i View ft \u0026gt;1. Blind Spot Area 'It 1 J I 1 w I I I I (Convex Mirror ] View I s fi'l ^Mirror View K '3 i I,\" Mirror, I View I f i ia5J55*S*^ !* t- 1 r VriH M (J J s I figure 3-20: FIELD OF VISION USING A CONVEX MIRROR0 Flat Mirror Convex Mirror FIGURE 3-21\nDISTORTION OF CONVEX MIRRORS J I I I J 5^ ' I?*' v*v. TITORIVING PRACTICE 93 k |4o(\u0026gt;P+b* Uihl yuilh bn(X on 0jppff(^ 6idej\noF aili I WhtcL. AT Pos\n4.'ons.' S THINK OF THE WHEEL AS A CLOCK. PLACE YOUR LEFT HAND BETWEEN THE EIGHT AND TEN OCLOCK POSITIONS AND YOUR RIGHT HAND BETWEEN THE TWO AND FOUR O'CLOCK POSITIONS. THIS DOUBLE GRIP HELPS YOU MAINTAIN CONTROL OF YOUR TRUCK. ' I : :-T Ji' '. - .?.: V, .fT ''X \u0026lt;\u0026gt;. -M.-* r. ,-\nBl 4 I FIGURE 3-9: STEERING HANDHOLD fi I t, I, gW 'r^ W a S' . : 0.\\i\ni i.tV_.\u0026gt;l, i\u0026gt; L^j MU 4: I^-\" 1 r^ f 8 CHAPTER THREE f Use a Helper Use a helper when you can. Tfl8^?90 1, i! , _li_t_^QEp__ A. helper is important to aid you in se^i^aii r i\n-  ( areas. I'rh^helpggphouidsMd^^n^^^ ircari^eC'inS^^^ie^Before you begin backi^ j'you both understand. ^heaffithSbaS 'orKOin a^ i A o: r 1- t I  i: i I  it t' I-VI p, ! FIGURE 3-14: GUIDE STANDS ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE r ' s'f J\n/. 1 V-\"' ' I v-l  v: latter what kind of big vehicle you drive, you must keep track 10m ttnnr t-ckn*- _____ tr . . * ' /here your rear wheels are. If you do not. you can hit other Icles or objects during turns. So, as you steer, allow for ^cklng. Straightaways 5.i [^ght stretches of road can also cause problems for a tractor- Lller. The way you drive a truck and trailer or a tractor-trailer ys the trailer in line. Check the mirrors -'-t lore of the trailer In one mirror fh^. the,pther, jjBlde where you see more of the trailer?! Tins will nrig. ' steer, toward^ straighten out 1 Bg^ ofyour left-^irror (Figure 3-12). At the ilde of the trailer may disappear from view. ^e^y\u0026lt;up same time, the rigdit if v iV- UJtfiCL L 4. f ARtrCi FIGURE 3-12\nTRAILER DRIFTING   * jp 'll i i'S y drifts to tiie right, the'vlew*JrRtli^ii\u0026amp;l ille the left side of 'theffaliePdffip^fi^g drifting, turn your steerlrig wheel tnw^ itegSi^s'Ato^^\nth^tn^wWsW left, turn left, pyhen it drifts right, turn the steering wheel to the right. leMew\nlor  -f/- pgffil^o^,gens 3j\n^. To correct 'd the drift. R frl :U  v t 'W i IT'''\n\"X'f: W  mO SAFE DRIVING PRACTICES 97 Back Slowly I In way, you can more easily correct any steering errors. You can also stop quickly if needed. I Back and Turn Toward the Driver's Side i t i i f Back towi he drivers side so you can see better ^n^t'sl\u0026lt;l^Iaver^^arig0rdi^b^5i,a3dse^ou^5ffi^^^^ yoOuU bbaacckk aanndd ttuurrnn ttoowwaarrdd the drivers side, you can walc^ rear of your vehicle side window. Htaifl^acklng^-^ even if It means\"golhg!^^6un'^^^DlQ]^ iMftffli^^l\u0026lt;\u0026lt;ih\nthisq3Q^fi The added safety Is worth iU Z Z Drivers Side :o \u0026gt;\u0026gt; YES NO FIGURE 3-13: DRIVER'S SIDE BACKING Blind Side Southern Defensive and Commercial Driving License Seminars Inc. Commercial Driver License Training Program Passenger Endorsement Test If you will drive a vehicle with passengers. 1. The total weight of acceptable hazardous materials carried by a passenger transport vehicle must not be greater than _________ pounds. A. B. C. 100 250 500 2. You must not permit standing riders: A. B. C. In front of the standee line. Within two feet of an emergency exit. Within two feet of any window. 3. Shifting gears in a passenger transport vehicle is not permitted when: A. B. C. Crossing a bridge. Crossing railroad tracks. Driving down a steep hill. 4. Which will most affect the amount of traction that your bus will have? A. B. C. The drive wheels The type and condition of the road surface. The size of the tires. 5. Which of the following lists show the three types of emergency equipment that you must have on your bus? A. B. C. Reflectors, fire extinguishers, tire repair kit. Fire extinguisher, spare electric fuses, First aid kit. spare electric fuses. reflectors. fire extinguisher. 6. If you transport passengers, it is illegal to consume any intoxicating beverage, regardless of its alcoholic content. within hours before going on duty. A. B. C. 8 4 6 Page Two - Passenger Endorsement Test CDL 7. It is most dangerous to back up: A. B. C. To the right. To the left. Straight back. 8. To be safe, always maintain a minimum following distance. This 9. 10. 11. is the distance your vehicle travels in\nA. B. C. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. When A. B. C. If A. B. C. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. braking, a bus will have the most traction when: The wheels are rolling, just short of locking. The wheels are locked. The emergency brake is applied. your bus has an emergency exit door, it must: Be secured when operating the bus. Always have a red door light turned on. Not have any signs, stickers or markings on it. Normally, how many seats that are not securely fastened to the bus are allowed? A. B. C. 0 1 2 If there is no traffic light or attendant, how far from the draw of a drawbridge must you stop? A. B. C. 30 feet. 50 feet. 100 feet. To stop for railroad tracks, a bus driver must stop before the nearest track: feet A. B. C. 10 to 30. 15 to 50. 20 to 65. When driving down a steep hill, extra caution must be taken. You should\nA. B. C. Shift down and use your brakes. Use your brakes only. Shift to a lower gear. Buses may have recapped or regrooved tires\nA. B. C. On any or all of the wheels. Only on the outside duals. Anywhere except the front wheels. When you are driving too fast on a banked curve, your vehicle will\nA. B. C. Feel a little heavier. Lean toward the inside. Lean toward the outside. Page Three - Passenger Endorsement Test - CDL 17. If the road becomes slippery you should: A. B. C. Maintain your speed. Increase your speed quickly. Reduce your speed gradually. 18. When operating a passenger transport vehicle and chains are required, you must be sure the chains have been properly installed \u0026lt; A. B. C. The drive wheels. The front wheels. Both of the above. 19. When that is: you discharge an unruly rider, you should choose a place 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. A. B. C. Off the regular route. As safe as possible. The most convenient. Your bus is disabled. The bus, with rider aboard, may be towed or pushed to safe place only: A. B. C. By a 27,000 GVWR or larger tow truck. If the towing distance is less than one mile. If getting off the bus would be more risky for the riders. Which of these statements about maneuvering space to the sides of your bus is true? A. B. C. Keep your bus to the right side of the lane. The lane position of buses is not affected by wind. Avoid traveling next to others when possible. A bus may carry baggage and freight only if secured in what way? A. B. C. D. So the driver can move freely and easily. So any rider can use any door or window. So riders are protected from falling or shifting packages. All of the above. Which of these should be considered a hazard? A. B. C. D. An ice cream truck. A blind intersection. A driver signalling a turn. All of the above. You are driving at night and you must dim your headlights from high to low, what should you do with your speed? A. B. C. D. Slow down. Speed up. Drop five miles per hour until your eyes adjust. Do nothing. How well you see has nothing to do^with speed. Which of these will result in the best control on curves? A. B. C. D. Brake all the way through curves. Slow to a safe speed before entering curves and accelerate slightly through curve. Speed up slightly before the curve and keep your speed constant through the curve. , Slow to a safe speed before the curve and coast through curve. Page Four - Passenger Endorsement Test - CDL 26. When should you check your mirrors for a lane change: A. B. C. D. After signalling the change. Directly after starting the lane change. After conpleting the lane change. All of the above. 27. Which of these statements about speed management and braking is trui A. Stopping time increases one second for each ten miles per hour over 20 miles per hour. 28. 29. B. C. D. You need about four times as much stopping distance at 40 miles per hour as you do at 20 miles per hour. The total stopping distance of a bus is the distance it takes once the brakes are applied. The posted speed limit allows you to stop safely. Which of the following types of cargo cannot be carried on a bus? A. B. C. D. Small arms ammunition. Labeled OMRD. Irritating materials or tear gas. Emergency drug shipments. All of the above. When is it best to wear your seat belt: A. B. C. D. At all times. Unless you won't be traveling over 35 miles per hour. Only on sand, gravel, or ice covered roads. Only if your bus holds more than 27 people. 30. You are driving a 40 foot bus at 30 miles per hour, the road is dry and the visibility is good, you should keep a safety space in front of A. B. C. D. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. your bus how many seconds long? 31. How many folding aisle seats are allowed in a bus that doesn't carry farm workers? A. B. C. D. 0 4 6 8 32. You are driving on a slippery road during the day, according to the driver's manual, how much space should you keep ahead of you? A. B. C. D. Add one second of the space needed for good road conditions. Allow one car length for every ten miles. Allow no more space than you need'under ideal conditions. Allow much more space than needed for ideal driving conditions. 33. If you have riders aboard, you should never fuel your bus under what circumstances? A. B. C. D. Without a fire bottle beside you. In a closed building. Without attaching the grounding cable. With any of the windows open. Page Five - Passenger Endorsement Test - CDL 34. Which of these statements about seeing ahead is true? A. B. C. D. At highway speed you should look not more than 1/8 mile ahead. Many drivers do not look far enough ahead. Good drivers keep their attention on one place for 12 to 15 seconds. All of the above are true. 35. You may sometimes have small arms ammunitions or emergency hospital supplies on a bus. The total weight of all such hazardous materials must be no more than how many pounds? A. B. C. D. 5 pounds. 50 pounds. 500 pounds. 5,000 pounds. 36. When inspecting your bus, you should make sure: A. B. C. D. Every other hand hold and railing are secure. The rider signalling devices are working. Emergency exit handles have not been removed. All of the above. 37. Many buses have curved mirrors called convex, or spot mirrors. What is true about spot mirrors? A. B. C. D. They are against the law in some states. Spot mirrors make things seem smaller and farther away than they really are. Spot mirrors do not need to be checked often because they show a larger area. All of the above are true. 38. If a rider wants to bring a car battery, or a can of gasoline on your bus, what should you do? A. B. C. D. Don't permit it. Tell the rider to sit in the rear of the bus. Collect an extra fare for this type of cargo. Put the battery or gasoline in the cargo compartment. 39. Which of these statements about hazards is true? A. B. C. D. A car with out of state plates is a hazard because that state may not have hazard laws. Movement in a parked car means a person is about to step out. If you see any part of another vehicle, you may assume the driver of the other vehicle sees you. All of the above are true. 40. You are driving a 40 foot bus at 50 miles per hour, the road is dry and visibility is good. of space in front of your bus to be safe? You should keep how many seconds A. B. C. D. 8 seconds. 7 seconds. 6 seconds. 5 seconds. Page Six - Passenger Endorsement Test - CDL 41. Which of the following statements about cargo or baggage containing hazardous materials is true? A. B. C. D. Hazardous materials are allowed on the bus with a permit. Hazardous materials are marked with diamond shaped labels. There are 45 different hazardous materials labels. All of the above are true. 42. The most common bus accident according to the driver's manual is: A. B. C. D. Backing. Head on with a fixed object. Intersections. Making right hand turns. Southern Defensive and Commercial Driving License Seminars Inc. Commercial Driver License Training Program COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE REVIEW TEST 1. Which of these statements about double-clutching and shifting is true? A. Pg. 2-14/Par. B. D. Double-clutching should not be used when the road is slippery. Double-clutching should be used only with a heavy load. You can use the tachometer to tell you when tn shift. If you miss a gear when up-shifting, you must bring the vehicle to a complete stop. 2. How long may an unsafe vehicle be put out of service? A. B. C. D. Second inspection by the Georgia State Patrol. Until the driver fixes it. Until the owner fixes it. Either B or C. Pg- 2-1/Line 5. 3. Which of these should be considered a hazard? A. B. C. D. An ice cream truck. A blind intersection. Pg. 2-36/Par. 5 Pg. 2-35/Par. 5. A driver signaling a turn. pg. 2-36/Par. 11. All of the above. 4. Of the following choices, which best describes how you should use your brake pedal when going down a steep hill? A. B. CT D. A light pumping action. A light steady pressure. Kepeatea strong pressure, then release. With stronger pressure as vehicle goes down the hill. 5. Inspection of vehicles by the driver is mandated by: A. B. C. D. Federal and State laws. Pg- 2-1/Line 3. Local school system laws. Is not required. Is only a matter of professionalism. 6. When you dim your lights at night, what should you do about your speed? A. B. C. D. Slow down. Speed up. Drop 5 mph until your eyes adjust. Do nothing because how well you see should not affect the speed. Page Two - CDL Review Test 7. Of the following statements, which is true about speed? A. B. C. Empty trucks always stop easier than do fully loaded ones. When you go twice as fast, it will take twice as far to stop. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. D. You should choose a speed that will allow within the distance you can see ahead. Pg. you to stop 2-27/Par. 9. You should use brakes and the accelerator alternately. While on a trip, what should you check on a regular basis? A. B. C. D. Watch gauges. Use your senses. Check critical items when you stop. All of the above. Pg. 2-1/Lines 10,11,13. The emergency door on your bus must: A. B. C. D. Be closed when operating the bus. Pg. 4-2/Par. 2. Always have a red door light on. Be free to open for fresh air. Meet all of the above conditions. Which of the following best describes the basic characteristics of the center of gravity? A. B. C. D. The center of gravity is only a problem when the vehicle is overloaded. The center of gravity can make a vehicle more likely to tip over on a curve if it is high. The center of gravity should be kept as high as possible. All of the above. For the best control of your vehicle, which maneuver is best? A. Slow to a safe speed before the curve and coast through it. B. C. D. Slow to a safe speed before entering a curve\nthen accelerate slightly through the curve. Brake all the way through the curve. Speed up slightly before the curve\nthen keep your speed constant through the curve. When driving at the posted speed limit, how far ahead should you look? A. B. C. D. Three-tenth (3/10) of a mile. One-eighth (1/8) of a mile. One-fourth (1/4) of a mile. One-half (1/2) of a mile. What is the minimum tread depth requirement for front tires? A. B. C. D. 4/32 inch, pg. 2-2/Line 1. 2/32 inch. 1/2 inch. 3/4 inch. Page Three - CDL Review Test 14. Which of these should you not do when you pass a vehicle? A. B. C. D. Lightly tap the horn. When passing at night, turn on your high beam before you start to pass, and keep them on until you have completely passed the vehicle. Drive carefully to avoid a crash. Assume the other driver does not see you. 15. You may not run which of the following on the front wheels of your vehicle: A. B. C. D. Regrooved tires. Recapped tires. Retreaded tires. All of the above. 16. When you down-shift, A. B. C. you should: D. Down-shift for a curve before you enter it. Down-shift for a hill after you start down. Let the rpm decrease while the clutch is released and the gear shift is in neutral. All of the above are true. 17. Steering wheel play of more than to steer. can make it hard A. B. C. ttr Two (2) degrees. Four (4) degrees. Three (3) degrees. Ten (10) degrees. 18. Which of the following should be on your bus at all times in case of an emergency? A. B. C. D. Fire extinguishers. Spare electrical fuses if needed. Warning devices for parked vehicles. All of the above. 19. J / To use an interlock in place of the parking brake is: A. B. C. D. Unwise. Okay. Okay on level ground only. A safety feature. 20. Which of these statements about drugs is true? A. B. A driver can use any prescription drug while driving. Amphetamines such as pep pills or bennies can be used to help the driver to stay alert. C. CT The use of drugs is a All of the above. hazard. I'.ig'? !'i i 1J hl t Air Hr.iki's i'fSt (l)l, S'l . All .ilcohol ('V.iporu tor is\ndiss i g nod to do whnt for / n I i r briko\n? A. h. c. I). To get rid of alcohol in the brake ch imbir To cut down the time it takes to build air pressuri'. To act as a reserve for air pressure. To reduce the chianc\ne of_________. cold wo.it-li(?r. f'g . 5-2/bines 13-15 . A fully charged air system i A. n. C. D. 125 psi. 110 psi. 100 psi. 90 psi . Lco in air tjrnko valuos in Pg. 5-7/Par. 8. typically: \u0026lt; Air I I I I / ^(oji /ip!/}r ^/?e PPc /!'r. ^app/y c^A-u^es, H /T^Ccj /l/t/cZ, r7Z\u0026gt;^ j 7~Pt ^\u0026amp;ecP Pj\u0026gt;e H I ' I I ! h H H I  li' i ^j/S. e'-n^pf e^cz^s^/Z- \u0026gt;. lus ^/S. AAi)/- ^-f- \"S Ra.4^ /Ut^ee. -/T^an /^Mi^-/-e^ //}\u0026amp; 7^i6a- Oaje u:i /?}//)Ay^ (^ TkIO (3) T^ree Pi! ^fZ. ^i/je. (^) /^/ PcfS. ?^Jea.-i^eP-  11 ! i 9i. I. ^1' i\u0026lt;\" fc , ! 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When this knob is pulled, only the trailer brakes are applied. When hooking to a new trailer, this valve must be depressed to release your trailer brakes before driving. When you bob-tail, this button should be pulled to keep the air from leaking out of the lines on the back of your tractor. :V 1 PULL TO APPLY SYSTEM PARK PUSH TO ,RELEASE. VEHICLE INSPECTION AND BASIC CONTROL SKILLS TESTS SOCIAL SECURITY NO. ALL VEHICLES IlQzj CO3 ng: g~- 'V: ENGINE COMPARTMENT pp r2~i ryi rg\"! r2~^ ry: r2~i c^ CS C33 (33 ^3 cK zXi CS3 ! cs: cs: ex: :3: n^n I 11 1 i I I i I i 11^ 11 CZ3 CX] CX3 CX] LZ3 CXI C7e CXj ryi rQ~i rfr: rgt fffi rg~i rgi ryi C33 cS3C93 oil level ........................ coolant level .............. power steering fluid . water pump ................ alternator ..................... air compressor .......... any leaks ..................... ENGINE START parking brake CO CZ3 CO clutch gearshift ...  air buzzer sounds . oil pressure builds ammeter'voltmeter air brake check ... CZ3 steering play .........  mirrors, windshield CO wipers ..................... CO lighting indicators horn(s) .................. heater /defroster .. safety emergency equip TRUCK/SCHOOL BUSZTRACTOR Front Suspension spring ........................ spring mount .......... shock absorber ....... Front Wheel rims ............................ hub oil seal .............. tires ............................ lug nuts ..................... Front Brake slack adjustor ......... chamber ................... hoses ........................ co co co OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT Vehicle axles Trailer axles Air brakes .. CX3C2I Front of Vehicle lights ........................ steering box .......... steering linkage .... Under Vehicle - Rear of Tractor drive shaft .............. exhaust system ..... frame ...................... CO co co co ^Kim .......................... wiver/Fuel Area door, mirror .......... fuel tank ................ leaks ....................... Rear Wheels rims .......................... tires .......................... axle seals ................ lug nuts ................... spacers ................... Rear Suspension springs ..................... spring mounts ....... torsion, shocks ..... Rear Brakes slack adjustor ....... chamber ................. hoses ...................... drum ........................ co co  F R I___IL-J coco coco coco coco coco IZO co tzoco r~iro r-if1 BASIC CONTROL SKILLS Right Turn Pullups Encroachments Mearance Wey Dock Pullups Encroachments Rear Dock (2 Jt.) School Bus Only passenger entry .... emergency exits .... seating ..................... Tractor Only air/elec lines ............ catwalk ...................... Coupling System mounting bolts ........ safety latch .............. platform ................... release arm ............ kingpin/apron ........ Sliding Sth Wheel locking pins ............ lights/reflectors ..... splash guards ......... Rear of Vehicle lights, reflectors ... signal/brake lights r0:rT~ir2~ir3irzVirS^ CG3 03 (23 (33 E3|3 C53 (03 Ct3 C23 C33 ntJ C53 ixnm co co TRAILER Trailer Front air/elec connect .. header board..... lights/reflectors .. Side of Trailer landing gear ....... lights/reflectors .. (doors, ties) ....... frame ................... wheels rims *....................... tires ...................... axle seals ............ lug nuts ............... spacers ............... Suspension springs ................. spring mounts .... Brakes slack adjustor ... chamber ............. hoses ..................... drum ..................... Rear of Trailer lights/reflectors . doors, tics ......... COACHZTRANSIT BUS Front of Vehicle co CO F R C3CX3 coco CZI coco coco coco coco coco ezo co coco coco co co Straight Line Backing Pullups Encroachments Stop Line (2 ft.) 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You do not have to put out reflective triangles unless C. D. the vehicle will be stopped for 30 minutes The vehicles taillights should be kept on motorists. Al of the above. or more. to warn other 22. Which of the following statements would tell you a shipment contains hazardous materials? A. B. C. D. A hazardous material placard on the vehicle. A hazardous material label on the container. The name of a hazard class on the shipping paper. All of the above. 23. Which one of the following skills is not required to be demonstrated for safe operation of a commercial vehicle. A. B. C. D. Accelerating. Passenger control. Steering. Braking. 24. When driving a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission/ ) it is most important to down-shift before\nA. B. C. D. Entering a curve. Making a turn. Going down grades. While on level ground. 25. You have been forced off the road. How should you safely 26. 27. move A. B. C. D. back on to the road? . If the shoulder is clear, stay on it until your  has come to a stop and move Pack onto the pavement wheiF it IS safe. Brake hard and steer back onto the pavement. Steer sharply back onto the pavement, maintaining your speed. , , . Keep moving at present speed and steer gently back onto the pavement. Which fires can you use water to put out? A. B. C. D. Tire fires. Gasoline fires. Electrical fires. All of the above. You should use your mirrors to check\nA. B. C. D. The condition of your tires. Where the rear of your vehicle is when you make turns. Traffic gaps when merging. All of the above.Page Five - CDL Review Test 28. Fisheye or convex mirrors make objects seem actually are. than they 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. A. B. C. D. Closer. Farther. Larger. Slower. The proper way to hold the steering wheel is: B. C. D. Firmly with both hands on opposite sides of the wheel. Firmly with both hands as close to the 12 o'clock position as possible. Loosely with both hands on opposite sides of the wheel to facilitate the return of the wheel after cornering the vehicle. All of the above. It will be harder for you to see: A. B. C. D. At dawn. At dusk. In rain. All of the above. Of the following options, which is true about speed?. A. On a wet road, you should reduce your speed by about one-third. B. C. D. On packed snow, you should reduce your speed by at least one-half. When the road is slippery, it will take longer to stop and will be harder to turn without skidding. All of the above. If you are about to have an accident, you should remember: A. B. C. D. You can almost always turn to miss an obstacle more quickly than you can stop. Stopping is always the safest action. Leaving the road is always more risky than hitting another vehicle. All of the above. Going through water puddles is especially dangerous to your: A. B. C. D. Brakes. Exhaust. Engine. Shocks. Which of these statements concerning tires and driving is true? hot weather A. B. C. D. If a tire is too hot to touch, you should drive on it to cool it off. You should inspect your tires every two hours or every 100 miles when driving in very hot weather. The air pressure of a tire decreases as the temperature of a tire increases. All of the above. Page Six - CDL Review Test 35. Which of these is the most important thing to remember' about emergency braking? A. B. C. D. Emergency braking helps keep the brake lining clean. Disconnecting the steering axle brakes helps to keep your vehicle in a straight line during emergency braking. If the wheels are skidding, you cannot control the vehicle Never emergency brake without down-shifting first. 36. When backing, you should do so slowly because: A. B. C. It is easier to correct steering errors. Others will see your intentions. Less likely to need to use pull-ups. DI-'- All '/of theabove. 37. To check the free play of manual slack adjusters on cam brake systems, you should park: II S A. B. C. D. On level ground and apply the parking brake and the service brake. Park on level ground, chock the wheels, and turn off the parking brakes. Park on level ground and drain the air pressure before adjusting. Park on a slight grade, release the parking brake, apply the service brake, and check for vehicle movement. 38. Emergency stab braking is when you: A. B. C. D. Press hard on the brake pedal and apply full hand valve until you stop. Apply the hand valve for one second and then apply the brake pedal. Use light steady pressure on the brake pedal. Put on brakes as hard as you can until the wheels lQCk\u0026gt; let off the brakes and put brake on again when wheel-s start rolling. 39. To correct a drivewheel braking skid, you should: A. B. C. D. Stop braking. Stop braking, turn guickly, and counter steer. Increase braking. Increase braking, turn quickly, and counter steer. 40. The road is most slick after raining how long? A. A few minutes. B. C. D. 30 minutes. An hour. 9 An hour and a half. 41. Controlled braking is also called: A. B. C. D. Squeeze braking. PressrbraklBg. Test braking. Service braking. Page Seven - CDL Review Test 42. 43. 44. 45. One common characteristic of brakes that get too hot is: A. B. Ci D. They stop the vehicle too quickly. They are designed to work better when hot. They may stop working.__ Heat has no effect on brakes. A driver should not allow passengers on the bus if they are bringing with them which of the following? A^ B. C. D. Car battprips nr gasolinp Sealed packages. Small arms ammunition. All of the above. In bad weather, following distance should be: A. B. c7 D. The same. Decreased. Increased. Depends on the skill of the driver. What is meant by double-clutching? A. B. C. D. Pushing down on the clutch pedal four times each time you shift gears. Shifting without using the clutch. Release the accelerator, push down on the clutch pedal: then let the engine and gears slow down to the rpm's required for the next gear\nthen push in the clutch pedal a nd shift to the higher gear. (Pg- 2-14,Par. 4.) Maintain double the needed pressure on the clutch. 46. What are two factors in knowing when to shift? A.' Using transmission speed and clutch stroke. B. c7 D. Using the engine and road speed. Using road speed and \"feel All o f the above. of the road. 47. Which of these is a sign of tire failure? A. B. C. D. Steering that feels heavy. A loud bang. Vibration. All of the above. 48. How should you use your brakes to stop in an emergency? A. B. C. D. Yoir brake so that you use the hand brake first. Brake using the full power of the brakes and lock them. You brake so that you steer and y our vehicle stays in a straight line. You brake so you can steer hard while braking hard. Page Eight - CDL Review Test 49. What is the proper way to hold a steering wheel? A. B. C. D. With one hand. With both hands close together near the top of the wheel. With both hands close together near the bottom of the wheel. With both hands on opposite sides of the wheel... 50. The most common type of brakes are: A. B. C. D. Wedge brakes. Disc brakes. S-cam brakes. Formulated Pressure. 51. Which is not a good move when being tailgated? A. B. C. D. Avoid quick changes. Don't speed u p. Turn on your taillights. Allow more following distance. 52. You are driving a 40-foot vehicle at 35 mph\nall conditions are good. How much distance should you keep between you and the vehicle in front of you? A. B. C. D. 2 seconds. 3 seconds. 4 seconds. 5 seconds. 53. On snow, speed should be reduced by at least: A. B. C. D. One-half (1/2). One-fourth (1/4). One-third (1/3). Enough speed to allow adherence to the four-second rule. 54. Too much heat can cause your brakes to: A. B. C. D. Need adjustment. Fail. Lock on. Develop drum cracks. 55. Which is a good night driving technique? Keep- your speed slow ^enough that von canstop wi thiLru \u0026lt;  i i the range of the headlights. A. B. C. D. Keep your instrument lights bright. Look directly at oncoming headlights only briefly. Wear sunglasses. 56. You must have a commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement to drive: A. B. C. D. A vehicle transporting small arms ammunition. A vehicle with placards. A vehicle with more than 15 passengers including the driver. A vehicle with more than 16 passengers including the driver. Page Nine - CDL Review Test 57. Which of the tollowing statements is true about strong winds. A. B. C. D. You can lessen the effects of the wind by letting some of the air out of your tires. You should drive alongside other vehicles to help break up the wind. Winds are especially problems when coming out of tunnels The lighter yoir vehicle, the less trouble you will have with wind. 58. You should know that your brakes are failing when you feel: A. B. C. D. You have to push harder on the brake pedal to control your speed on a downgrade. The brake pedal feels spongy when pressure is annlied..- Pressure on the brake pedal is released and speed increases. Less pressure is needed on the brake pedal for each stop. 59. A skid can be caused by: A. B. C. D. Over-steering. Over-braking. Over-acceleration. All of the above. 60. What will help sober up a drinker of alcoholic beverages? A. B. C. D. Fresh air. Coffee. Time. Rapid eye movement. 61. You do not have a hazardous materials endorsement on your 62. 63. CDL. when: A. B. Qjl D. You can drive a vehicle containing hazardous materials The shipment will not cross state lines. The GVWR is 26,001 lbs. or less. The vehicle does not reguire placards. A person who has the hazardous materials endorsement rides with you. You wish to turn right from a two-lane, two-way street to another\nyour vehicle is so long that you have to swing wide to make the turn. How should the turn be made? A. C. D. You should swing wide before making the turn. You should swing wide after making the turn. You should start turning from the left and swing wide after making the turn. You should start turning from the left lane and turn into the left lane of the new street. Most good drivers look how many seconds ahead? A. C. D. 5 to 7 seconds. 12 to 15 seconds. 10 to 12 seconds. Depends on speed. Page Ten - CDL Review Test 64. .Truck escape ramps: A. B. C. D. Cannot be used by certain types of Help avoid damage tn vphirlps-heavy vehicles. Should not be used if brakes fail on a downgrade. All of the above. 65. The road on which due to glazed ice. in such a situation? you are driving becomes very slippery Which of these is a good thing to do 66. 67. 68. 69. A. B. C. D. Stop driving as soon as you can safely do so. Down-shift to stop. Apply the brakes often to keep the brake linings dry. Keep varying your speed by acceleration and braking. During normal driving, spring brakes are usually held back by: A. B. C. D. Bolts. Air pressure. Pg. 5-4/Par. 9. Spring pressure. Centrifugal force. Which of these statements is true about retarders? A. B. C. D. They cause extra brake wear. They allow you to disconnect the steering axle brakes. They can cause the drivewheels to skid when they have poor traction. They cannot be used on interstate hijfhwaysi . If you go twice as fast, will your stopping distance increase by: A. B. C. D. Two times. Three times. Four times. Five times. You are driving a new truck that has a manual transmission. What gear will you probably have to use to make a long, steep downhill grade? A. B. C. D. The same gear you would use to climb the hill. A lower gear than you would use to climb the hill. A higher gear than you would use to climb the hill. None. Newer trucks can coast down hills. 70. On what type turn should you be sure you've reached the center of the intersection before turning? A. B. C. D. Left turn. Right turn. Curve turn. While backing to the right. Page Eleven - CDL Review Test 71. What does a red triangle with an orange center on a vehicle mean? A. B. C. D. Slow-moving vehicle. Hazardous materials. Public utility vehicle. Student driver. 72. When should you check your mirrors for a lane change? A. B. C. D. After signaling the change. Directly after starting the lane change. After completing the lane change. All of the above. 73. Under what conditions may a bus have recapped or regrooved tires? A. B. C. D. The tires may not be on the front wheels. The tires may be on any or all of the wheels. Only when speeds will be less than 40 mph. Only on the outside of dual wheels. 74. When should you use high beams? A. B. C. D. High beams should be used when it is safe and legal to do so. High beams should be turned on when an oncoming vehicle does not dim his lights. High beams should be used to alert people of radar in use. All of the above. 75. An on-route inspection should include checking for: A. B. C. D. Tire over-heating. Brake over-heating. Cargo securement. All of the above. 76. Which of these statements about braking and speed management is true? A. B. C. Stopping time increases by one second for each 10 mph over 20 mph. You need about four times the stopping distance at 40 mph than you do at 20 mph. The total stopping distance of a bus is the distance it takes to stop once the brakes are applied. 77. D. The posted speed limit will always allow safely. you to stop Which of these statements about backing a vehicle is,true? A. B. C. D. You should avoid backing whenever you can. Helpers should be out of the driver's sight and use spoken signals to help the driver. It is safer to back toward the right of the vehicle than the driver's side. All of the above. I Page Twelve - CDL Review Test 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. Which of these is a good thing to remember about drinking alcohol? A. B. C. D. Alcohol first affects judgement and self-control, which affect driving. The chances of a crash are much greater for those that have been drinking. . A driver could lose his license for driving while drinking. All of the above. You are checking your tires for a pre-trip inspection\nwhich of these statements is true? A. B. C. D. Dual tires should be touching each other. Tires of mismatched sizes should not be used on the same vehicle. Radial and biased ply tires can be used on the same vehicle. Tread depth of 2/32 inch is sufficient for the front tires. Which of these could cause a fire? A. B. C. D. Under-inflated tires. Loose fuel connections. Electrical short circuits. All of the above. What is counter steering? A. B. C. D. Turning the steering wheel counter-clockwise. Steering in the opposite direction from which other drivers expect you to do. Using the steering axle brakes to prevent over-steering. Turning the steering wheel back in the other direction after steering to avoid a traffic emergency. Which of the following types of cargo can never be carried on a bus? A. C. D. Small arms ammunition labeled O.R.M.D. Irritating materials or tear gas. Emergency drug shipments. All of the above. To stop for a railroad track, a bus driver should stop how far from the nearest track? A. B. C. D. Five to 20 feet. Ten to 35 feet. Fifteen to 50 feet. Twenty to 65 feet. Which of these statements about managing space to the sides of your bus is true? You should keep your bus to the right side of your lane. The lane position of buses is not affected by wind. You should avoid traveling next to others if possible, pg2-24/ A. B. C. D. All of the above. Par. 4.Page Thirteen - CDL Review Test 85. On which type of fires can you use the type ABC fire ex- ' tinguisher? A. B. C. D. Electrical fires. Burning liquids. Burning cloth. All of the above. Pg. 2-44/Last Par./Lines 2,3. 86. Where should you discharge an unruly rider? A. B. C. D. Near a police station. In an isolated place so he will not bother other people. In as safe a place as possible. Pg. 4-4/Par. 2. In a place convenient for you. 87. A bus may carry baggage and freight only if secured in what way? A. B. C. D. So the driver can move freely and easily. So any rider can use any door or window in an emergency. So riders are protected from falling or shifting packages. All of the above. 88. Your bus is disabled\nunder what circumstances with passengers on board may the bus be towed or pushed to safety to discharge the passengers? A. B. C. D. Only if the distance is less than one mile. Only if getting off the bus sooner would be unsafe. Pg. 4-5/Par Only if a peace officer or rescue crew is present. Only if done by a 27,000 lbs. GVWR or larger tow truck. 89. You are driving a 40-foot bus at 30 mph\nthe road is dry and the visibility is good. You should keep a safety zone in front of your bus about how many seconds long? A. B. C. D. Eight (8) seconds. Seven (7) seconds. Four (4) seconds. Three (3) seconds. 90. Which of these statements about cargo loading is true? A. B. C. IT Legal maximum loaded weight can be considered safe for all conditions. Slight overloading of a vehicle can make its brakes work better. State laws dictate legal weight limits. If cargo is loaded by the shipper, the driver is not responsible for overloading. 91. You should not let riders stand where? A. B. CT D. Between the wheelwells. In front of the standee line, pg, 4-3/Par. 3. witnin two teet ot an emergency exit. In a space reserved for the handicapped. Page Fourteen - CDL Review Test 92. Which of these statements about using turn signals is true? A. B. C. D. When turning, you should cancel the signal just before making the turn. You do not need to use your signals when changing lanes on a four-lane highway. When turning, you should signal early. Pg. 2-17/Par. 9. You should use your turn signals to mark your vehicle when pulled off to the side of the road. 93. You are driving on a slippery road during the day. According to the driver's manual, how much space should you keep ahead of you? A. B. C. D. Add one second to the space needed in good conditions. Allow one car length for every 10 mph. Allow no more space than you need under ideal conditions. Allow much more space than needed for ideal driving conditions. 94. If you have riders aboard, you should never refuel your bus under what conditions? A. B. C. D. Without a fire bottle beside you. In a closed building. Pg. 4-5/Par. 4. Without attaching the grounding cable. With any of the windows open. 95. In which situation might the legal maximum weights not be safe? A. B. C. D. During bad weather. Pg. 3-2/Par. 9. On interstate highways. On non-interstate highways. On county-maintained highways. 96. What should you do if you become sleepy while driving? A. B. C. D. Move your eyes rapidly from mirrors to roadway. Stop to sleep. Stop and get coffee. Stop, walk around, and check your tires. 97. You are driving a vehicle which could be safely driven at 55 mph on an open road, but traffic is heavy now and is moving at 35 mph though the speed limit is 55 mph. safest speed for your vehicle is most likely: The 98. A. B. C. D. 25 mph. 35 mph. 45 mph. 5 5 mph. To help you stay alert while driving, you should\nA. B. C. D. Schedule trips for hours you are normally asleep. Take cold medicine if you have a cold. Take short breaks before you get drowsy. Pg. 2-46/Par.l. Do all of the above. Page Fifteen - CDL Review Test 99. Service brakes should initially be checked by the driver at what speed? A. B. C. D. 20 mph. 30 mph. 5 mph. 55 mph. 100. You are driving a vehicle at 55 mph on dry pavement. What is the total stopping distance you will need to bring it to a stop? A. B. C. D. The length of the vehicle. Twice the length of the vehicle. Half the length of a football field. The length of a football field. Pg. 2-20/Par. 6. 101. Cargo that is not loaded or secured properly can cause\nA. B. C. D. Vehicle damage by overloading. Other highway users to hit or be hit by loose cargo. Injury to the driver during a quick stop or crash. All of the above. Pg. 3-1/Par. 2. 102. What is the tread depth requirement for rear tires? A. B. C. D. 2/32 inch. Pg. 2-21/Line 2. 1/17 inch.. 4/32 inch. 1/8 inch. 103. Which of the following statements about certain types of cargo is true? A. Unstable loads such as hanging meat or livestock can require extra caution on curves. Pg. 3-5/Par. 6,7. B. C. D. Oversize loads can be hauled without special permits during times when the roads are not busy. Loads that consist of liquids in bulk do not cause handling problems because they are usually very h-eavy. When liquids are hauled, the tank should always be loaded totally full. 104. Drivers of trucks and truck-tractors must inspect their vehicle within the first A. B. C. D. 50. 100. 75. 25. Pg. 2-12/Line 13. miles of a trip? 105. You are driving a heavy vehicle. using an off ramp that curves downhill. You must exit a highway You should: A.Slow down to a safe speed before the curve. B. C. D. Slow to the posted speed limit for the off ramp. Come to a full stop at the top of the ramp. Wait until you are in the curve before downshifting. Page Sixteen - CDL Review Test 106. Hydraulic brake failure usually occurs because of: A. B. C. D. Brake fade. Too much fluid. Wrong fluid type. Bad adjustment. 107. You are checking trip inspection. your steering and exhaust systems in a pre- Which of these problems, if found, should be fixed before the vehicle is driven? A. B. C. D. A small leak of power steering fluid. Steering wheel play of more than 10 degrees (2 inches on a 20-inch steering wheel). Leaks in the exhaust system. All of the above. 108. Your vehicle is equipped with hydraulic brakes. While traveling on a level road, you press the brake pedal and find that it goes to the floor, statements is true? Which of the following A. B. C. D. You should not downshift if you have an automatic transmission. Pumping the brake pedal may bring the pressure up so you can stop the vehicle. The parking brake will not work either because it is part of the same hydraulic system. All of the above are true. 109. Which of the following statements is true about overhead clearance? A. B. C. D. Extra speed will cause air to push your vehicle down for extra clearance. The weight of a vehicle changes its height. If the road surface causes your vehicle to tilt toward objects at the edge of the road, you should drive close to the shoulder. You should assume posted clearance signs are correct. 110. Traveling in a vehicle out of gear or with clutch in is called. A. B. C. D. Coasting. Interlock. Grading. Traversing. 111. You are driving on a straight, level highway at 50 mph. There are no vehicles in front of you. blows out on your vehicle. Suddenly a tire A. B. C. D. What should you do first? Stay off the brake until the vehicle has slowed down. Quickly steer onto the shoulder. Begin light braking. Begin emergency braking. Page Seventeen - CDL Review Test 112. Which of the following is a good thing to remember about using mirrors? A. B. You should look at a mirror for several seconds at a time. Convex mirrors make things look larger and closer than they really are. C. D. There are blind spots II that your mirror cannot show you. You should check your mirrors twice for a lane change. 113. In mountain driving, help slow you. A. B. C. D. Lower gears. Brakes. Slack adjusters. Dual axle interlock. allows engine compression to 114. You are driving a heavy vehicle with a manual transmission. You have to stop the vehicle on the shoulder while driving on an uphill grade. Which of these is a good rule to follow when putting it back in motion up the grade? A. Keep the clutch slipping while slowly accelerating. B. C. D. Use the parking brake to hold the vehicle until the clutch engages. Let the vehicle roll straight backwards a few feet before you engage the clutch. Let the vehicle roll backwards a few feet before you engage the clutch, but turn the wheel so that the back moves away from the roadway. 115. Which of the following is a proper use of vehicle lights? A. Turning on your headlights during the day when visibility B. C. D. is reduced due to rain or snow. Flashing your brake lights to warn someone behine you of a hazard that will require slowing down. Flashing your brake lights to warn someone behind you that you are going to stop on the road. All of the above. 116. A major point to remember about loading cargo is to keep the load: A. B. C. D. To the rear. As high as possible. To the front. Balanced in the cargo area. 117. When setting out reflective triangles, you should: A. B. C. D. Turn off your flashers. Carry the triangles at your side. Hold the triangles between yourself and oncoming traffic. Keep them out of sight while you walk to the spot where you place the. Page Eighteen - CDL Review Test 118. Your low beams usually allow you to see up to how many feet? A. B. C. D. 500. 400. 250. 119. Which of the following items is checked in a pre-trip inspection? A. B. C. D. Whether all vehicle lights are working and are clean. Wiper blades. Cargo securement. All of the above. 120. If you can't avoid driving through deep puddles or flowing water, which of the following steps can help keep your brakes working? A. B. C. D. Driving through quickly. Gently putting on the brakes while driving through the water. Applying hard pressure on both the brake pedal and accelerator after coming out of the water. Turning on your brake heaters. 121. Steering, in an emergency, is usually best in what direction? A. B. C. D. Left. Straight. Right. Slow and gradual. 122. If a straight vehicle (school bus) goes into a front-wheel skid, it will\nA. B. C. D. Slide sideways and spin out. Slide sideways somewhat, but not spin out. Go straight ahead even if the steering wheel is turned. Go straight ahead but will turn if you turn the steering wheel. 123. Which of the following is a good thing to do when steering to A. B. C. D. avoid a crash? Apply the brakes while turning. Steer with one hand so that you can turn the wheel more quickly. Don't turn any more than needed to clear what is in your way. Avoid counter-steering. 124. Bright lights should be dimmed when you're within how many feet of an approaching driver? A. B. C. D. 100. 200. 300. 500. Page Nineteen - CDL Review Test 125. What should you do if you need to leave the road in a traffic emergency? A. B. C. D. Brake hard as you leave the road. Try to get all wheels off the pavement. Avoid braking until your speed has dropped tn about 20 mph Avoid the shoulder because most shoulders will not support a large vehicle. 126. Which of the following is true about engine overheating? A. B. C. D. If your engine overheats within 25 miles of the end of your trip, you should complete the trip and then check the problem. You should never shut off an overheated engine until it cools. You should never remove the radiator cap on a pressurized system until the system has cooled. Antifreeze is not needed when the weather is warm. 127. The fine for having more than one license is: A. B. C. D. $10,000. $7,500. $2,500. $5,000. 128. You are performing a pre-trip inspection, following statements is true? Which of the A. C. D. Rust around wheel nuts may mean that they are loose. Cracked wheels or rims can be used if they have been welded. A vehicle can be safely driven with one missing lug nut on a wheel. Mismatched lock rings can be used on the same vehicle. 129. You are driving on a two-lane road. into your lane and is headed straight for you. is most often the best action to take? An oncoming driver drifts Which of these A. B. C. D. Hard braking. Steer into the oncoming lane. Steer to the right. Steer onto the left shoulder. 130. Which of the following is a good thing to remember when crossing or entering traffic with a heavy vehicle. A. B. C. D. Heavy vehicles need larger gaps in traffic than cars. The best way to cross traffic is to pull the vehicle partway across the road and block one lane while waiting for the other to clear. The heavier your load, the smaller the gap needed to cross traff ic. Because heavy vehicles are easy to see, you can count on other drivers to move out of your way or slow down for Southern Dc.ft'ns i vt? ml Cominf rc i i! Driving License S'^m i n 1 rs 1 nc. Comniercial Dri ver Lic-'-'nse T r a i n i n g Pro.') ram Air Bratos Test This set of questions must be completed if you will be driving vehicles equipped with air brakes. 1. .Modern air brake system combine three different systems. They are the service brakes, the parking brakes, and the: A. B. C. Emergency brakes. Pg. 5.1-Par. 3. Foot brakes. S-cam brakes. 2. The air compressor govenor controls\nA. B, C. 3. The speed of the all compressor. Air pressure applied to the brakes. When the compressor will pump air into the storage tanks. Pg. 5.1-Par. 6^ A combination vehicle or bus air brake system cannot leak more than released\nper minute with the engine off and the brake A. B. e. 1 psi . 2 - psi.Pg. 5-7, Par. 7.(Must be less than 3 psi 3 psi. 3 psi.) cannot be 4. Oil and water that collects in air tanks can make brakes fail. If you do not have automatic tank drains, when should you drain the air tanks? A. JL. C. Every other day. Every day. Pg- 5-2-Par. 1-Lines 7,8. Every week. \\e!iicles with air brakes must have\nA . n. At least two air tanks. An air pressure gauge. C. for braking. Pg. 5-4-Par. 1. to show the pressure available An air use gauge, for braking. to show air used by the brake chambers 6. rhe driver must bo able to when air pressure in the service tanks eo a warning li'jht that is given falls below: A. P. 40 psi. 50 psi. ___ BQ-- PO  5-4-Pdr. 3. '1' w o A i I r- cn\n, 1. You shoulii know that your br,ik''s r I cl i .'I 'l wh\u0026lt;'ri : A. You have to push harder on the brak ' ped,11 to control 8. B. C. your speed on a down - grade, pg. The brake pedal feels spongy when pressure'is applied. 5-y, Pa r . 2 . Less pressure is needed on the brake pedal for each stop. To check the Cree play in manual slack adjusters. you need to\nA. Stop on level ground and apply the parking brakes. B. C. Park on level ground, check the wheels and release the parking brakes. Pg. 5-6, Par. 6. Apply the service brakes by hand and watch the slack adjusters move. 9. Air braking takes more than hydrualic braking because air brakes: A. B. C. Use different brake drums. Need to have air flow through the lines to work, pg. 5-9, Require heavier return springs. Par. 10. Which of the following makes total stopping distance longer for air brakes than hydraulic? A. B. C. Perception distance. Reaction distance. Brake lag. Pg. 5-9, Par. 1. 11. Experts do not recommend fanning ( on-again braking ) for long downhill runs because: A. B. C. Air usage is less when fanning. Brake linings do not get hot when fan.ning. The short time off the brakes does not allow the brakes to cool. Pg. 5-9, Par. 4. 12. If the air compressor develops a leak, what keeps the air in the tanks? A. B. C. The tractor protection valve. The emergency relay valve. The one-way check valve. 13. If your vehicle has an alcohol evaporator, every day during the cold weather you should: A. B. C. Check and fill the alcohol level. Pg. 5-2, Par. 3. Change the alcohol. Use only grade A alcohol. 14. You must make .a very quick stop. You should brake so you: A. B. C. Can steer hard while braking hard. Use the full power of the brakes and lock them. Stay in a straight line and can steer. Pg. 5-8, Par. 2. 15. During normal driving, parking and emergency brakes are usually held back by: A. B. C. Air pressure. Pg. 5-4, Spring pressure. Centrifugal force. Par.9. i- 1 'I'e Th f'-'f A 1 r 1'1 I k I'l I Cid. 1 G. The alcohol evaporator on air braki? sy:.terns, to do which of the following. its f ,!I1C1 mH i .1 A. B. Thin the air. Reduce the risk of ice in the air line. Pg. 5-2, Par . C. Helps to make ttie brake apply easily. 17. The brake pedal may be referred to as: A. Safety brake. B. The foot or treadle valve. Pg. 5-2, Par. 6. C. The pressure and release pedal. 18. When you push the brake pedal dov/n on an air brake vehicle, two forces push back against your foot, which two are they? A. Brake chamber and brake shoe. B. Brake cam and cam roller. C. Soring and air pressure. Pg. 5-2, Par. 7. 19. All trucks, truck tractors and buses must be eguipp th emergency brakes and parking brake. Because air pressure can eventually leak away, what holds the brakes on? A. Limiting valves. B. Low air sensors. C. Spring brakes. .Pg. 5-4, Par. 9. 20. When inspecting your brakes on a pre-trip inspection. v.hich of these statements is false? A. Brake drums or discs must not have cracks longer than inch wide. B. Brake hoses may have small cuts in them as long as they are less than inch. Pg. 5-6, Par. 7. C. Linings must not be loose. 21. The parking brake knob should pop out when air pressure falls to the manufacturer's specification range of? A. 20-40 psi. Pg. 5-9, Last Par. B. C. 5-10 psi. 0-5 psi . 22. The pumping of the air compressor should start at about and stop at A. B. 60-90 psi. 50-70 psi. ps i . C. 100-125 psi. Pg. 5-7, Par. 8. 23. To test the parking brake you should: A. Move the vehicle forward about 15 miles per hour and pull the parking brake on. B. While backing, letting the brakes adjust, pull the parking C brakes on. Stop the vehicle, put the parking brake on, and gently pull against it in low gear. Pg. 5-8, Par. 2. Foil f A i r Ura k. st. 24. What describes the controlled braking the be.st? ',(? rni \"scjueezr \u0026gt;  I 'u k i rrj A. r^ut brakes en IS hard as you can withtiuL 1 OL:k i ng__k-hnpi  B. Apply Siow steady pressure until the wheels are locked. i 1 .i. r . G . C. Brake as hard as you can and then pump them 3-5 times. 25. Vehicle equipped with air brakes. Which statement describes the correct factors to equal total stopping distance? A. Reaction distance plus effective braking distance plus brake lag distance. B. Perception distance plus reaction di .:\nt.ane,- pl:.ia bcato C. lag distance plus effective braking distance. Pg. 5 - 9, Perception distance plus effective braking distance plus reaction distance plus brake lag distance. Par. 1 26. The spring brake will come on when air pressure drops into the to psi . A. 20 to 35. B. 20 to 40. Pg. 5-7, Par. 4. C. 20 to 45. 27. Pressing on the brake pedal as hard as you can and releasing the -brake pedal when the wheels lock up and as soon as the wheels start rolling, put on the brakes fully again descibes which type of braking method? A. Stab braking, pg. 5-8, Par. 7. B. Controlled braking. C. Emergency braking. 28. Which is not a part or component of the braking system? A. The manual draining valve.Fig. 5-1, Pg. 5-2. B. The safety valve, pg. C. 5-2, Par. 4 The pitman torque release pin. Pg. 5-2, Par. 1/Lines 11,12./ Par. 4. 29. The application pressure guage shows how much? A. B. Brake fluid is needed to stop the vehicle. Air pressure you are applying to the brakes. Pg. C. G-force is 5-4, Par. 2. ded to apply or to make a brake application. 30. What is the function of the slack adjusters? A. To twist the brake cam shaft to turn the \"S n cam to force the shoes against the drums. Pg. 5-3, Par. 3. B. To provide one inch of shoe to drum clearance. C. To adjust the power screw to operate the C-clamp. 0501t/O225t i'j'H' i vf i r Hi uki'.'i I'PSl (.I)!. 31. 'I'lic piirkinq or emergi?ncy brako on .1 heavy vohicle Ccin only bi? held in position by something that cannot Icik away. An Pg . example would be: A. n. Fluid Pressure. Spring Pressure Pg. 5-4, Any of the above. Pa r . 9. 32. Your vehicle has a duel air brake system, if a low air pressure warning comes on for the secondary system, what should you do? A. B. Bring a vehicle to a safe stop and continue only when the system is fixed. Pg. 5-5, Par. 2/Pg. 5-6, Par. 3. Reduc your speed and test the remaining system, while 5-5, Par.2C^ Pg. 5-6, Pa r.3D. under way. Reduce your speed and drive to the nearest garage for repair. Continue at normal speed if only the secondary system fails. 33. Th A. B. C. D. brake pedal to the air brake system? Control the speed of the air compressor. Always need to be held down halfway during normal driving. Controls the air pressure applied to the brakes. Pg. 5-2, Par. Is connected to the slack adjusters by a series of rods and linkages. 34. If your truck or bus has duel parking control valves you can use pressure from a separate tank for what purpose? A. B. C. D. To release the spring emergency parking brakes to move a short distance. Pg. 5-5, Par. 7. To apply more brake pressure if the main tank is getting low. To stay parked twice as long with your service air pressure. To balance the service brake system whenever you are parked. 35. Which of these is the first thing to do when a low air pressure warning comes on? A. B. C. D. Stop and safety park as soon as possible. Pg, 5-5, Par. 2. Shift to the next highest gear. Adjust the brake pedal for more travel. Open the air supply control valve. 36. The braking power of the spring brakes? A. B. C. D. Is not affected by the condition of the service brakes. Can only be tested by highly trained brake service people. Depends on the service brakes being in adjustment.Pg Increases when the service brakes are hot. 37. All air brake equipped vehicle have? A . B. C. D. At least one brake heater. A hydraulic system in case the air brake system fails. A supply pressure gauge. An air use gauge. Pg. 5-4, Par. 1. 38. What doos the application pressure gauge show you? A. B. C D. 5-5, Par. Mow much air you have used during this trip. How much pressure you have in the air tank. How much air pressure you are applying_ Ltj l.hti bEakiia,. *^'3  None of tfie above. 5-4,Par. I-.1'1 '\nI X Air iu'-i kf sL 3'J. W! 1 y A. ' B. C. D. .1 r I i 0 w.jt'T from comprossici .lir? fliG low boilinq point of w.jtor rnducos br.ikinq powi'r. Water c.in frf?cz(? in co Hi wo.athor nnri cansr' brake f a i lire Water cools the compressor too much. To keep from fouling the air compressor oil. P !   ia r . 40. To test air service brakes you should brake firmly while movi slowly forward, the brakes are on if you notice what? A. B. C. P The vehicle pulls to one side. An unusual feel. /A delayed stop action. None of the above. Pg. 5-8, Par. 3 41. On long down hill grades, experts recommend light steady pedal pressure instead of on again, off again braking. A. B. C. /Air usage is less with 1 ight steady pressure. Brake linings do not heat up as much w It works better with a low gear in controlling s h light pressure. D. All the above. Pg. 5-9, Par. 3. P ed. 42. During normal driving, spring brakes are held back by: A. iL. C. D. Bolts. Air pressure. Pg- 5-4, Par. 9 Spring pressure. Centrifugal force. 43. In air brake vehicle the parking brake should be used how? A. B. C. D. As little as possible. Anytime the vehicle is parked. Pg- 5-10, Par. 1 To hold your speed while going down hill. Only during parking and trip inspection. 44. Emergency stab braking is when you: A. B. C. ax Press hard on the brake pedal and apply full hand valve until you stop. Apply the hand brake for 1 second then push hand on the pedal. Use high steady pressure on the brake pedal. Brake as hard as vou can, release the brakes when the wheels lock, put on the brakes again when the wheels start rolling. 45. Storage tanks should hold how much air for braking? Enough air so the brakes can be used several times if the air compressor is not working. Pg- 5-1/Last Paragraph. B. C. D. At least 130 psi. At least 200 psi. At least 500 psi. 46. During normal driving, spring brakes are usually held back by: A. B. C. D. Bolts. Air pressure. Spring pressure Contrifugal force. Ig. 5-4/Line 3 Prom bottom of page. e I'.l !' S.'V t'll I'r-ik I.t |7. T,ie A. H . C. I\u0026gt;. most common Ly Wedge brake-s. Disc brakt?s. S-cam brakes. I' of ig- 5-3/Lino I. Lor mu I a t(?d irossu re . 18. Kby drain water from compressed air tank.' A. P. The low boilinci point of water reduci?3 brakinn power. Water can free.^e in cold weather and cau bral: failure. Pg. 5-2/Lines 1,2,3. D. Water cools the compressor too much. To keep from fouling the lir compressor 49. Th parking brake knob should pop out when tl falls to the manufacturer's specification, which in a range between: 1\nusually\nThis project was supported in part by a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives project grant from The Andrew W. 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Walker, p.a. AttokxNey At Law 1723 Broadway Little Rock. Arkansa.s 72206 TET.ephone (501) 374-3758 FAX (501) 374-1187 I I JOHN \\v. walker RAIJH WASHINGTON MARK BURNETTE WILEY A. BRANTON. JR. AUSTIN PORTER, JR ' Also admitted to PracUw iu 4 '-Ik Diskrict yf Colunbia. May 27/ 1993 Dr. Mac Bernd Superintendent of Schools Little Rock School District 810 West Markham Little Rock, AR 72201 li Re\nBus Route #07D Dear Dr. Bernd: It has come to my attention that there may be problems with Bus Route #07D which covers the Meadowcliff and Highland Court areas. Please advise whether or not you have or someone at your direction has authorized the use of two buses for this route, one for Black students and one for white students. If this is the case, I am concerned that the District is promoting segregation rather than its commitment of desegregating all aspects of the areas. school system. My understanding of our desegregation plan is that every effort will be made to improve race Continued separation of races by allowing separate buses for Black and white students does not fulfill that commitment. Please let me hear from you. incerel^ JCS\nlm John W. walker, Esquire Chris Heller, Esquire Ms. Ann Brown relations. C. Springi r ! i  t I cc\nr RECEIVF.O SEP 2 1994 Dione D. Doty 1510 Hillsborough Little Rock, AR 72212 Office of Desegregation tv'iofii ioi iiig September 1, 1994 Dr. Russ Mayo Associate Superintendent Little Rock \u0026amp;hool District Little Rock, AR 72201 Dear Dr. Mayo: Since your office took absolutely no action to reroute our newly reassigned bus route to exclude violent, crime intensive areas, we have nothing to reconsider. We will NOT compromise on safety issues and denial by your office and others of the existence of safety problems will only speed the exodus from the District. After seventeen years of supporting the Little Rock School District, we have withdrawn that support and enrolled our child in private school. The last 5 stops on this \"safe\" route are through one of the most violent areas in the city. Attachment 1 is summarized from a August 7 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article regarding the 41 Little Rock murders through that date. It only addressed murders, so it is far from being all-inclusive of area crimes. 37% of those murders were in some way related to this area either being the address of the victim, assailant or of the murder (22% of the 37%). Included were 3 drive-by murders (generally being unsolved), numerous shootings, chases, etc., etc. These locations were within blocks of both the bus stops and bus route which you consider \"adequate and safe\" and are certainly an indication of the high probability of being at the wrong place at the wrong time when traveling that route. Also note that the 14 year old assailant in murder # 12 has added a carjacking at gunpoint (3 felonies) and another drive-by shooting to his arrest record between August 14 and August 25. This assailant lives within blocks of one of these \"safe\" bus stops and has not restricted his activities to his home in the past! We understand that the Little Rock School District is large, that it has many students and that transportation is a major logistics problem Reduced bus-time and optimizing student-to-bus numbers were both cited by the transportation department as objectives for splitting the \"Green\" route, which has been our assigned route since 1990. We understand such objectives, but did not notice significant changes in either of these factors. We realize that the needs of the 6 children in this crime intensive area must also be met. We regret that they, or any children, are subject to the daily risk of living in such areas. However, we cannot and will not support ANY decision or ANY objective that would put ANOTHER 14 children at risk by transporting them twice a day through an urban war-zone! We do have choices!!Page 2 of 2 Doty to Mayo September 1, 1994 We certainly do not dispute that Booker Arts Magnet is an excellent school. We have been more than pleased with Dr. Simmons, Dr. Lacey, other Booker administrators, and Booker teachers and specialist. When we visited Booker to let Dr. Simmons know of our decision and to allow our daughter to say goodby to fnends, there were many expressions of regret that she was leaving and best wishes for her at her new school. This decision was not without regrets and tears on our part. However, the magnitude of this safety issue far out weighs the positives that Booker's administration and staff offer. We want to stress that we would NOf have placed our child in a private school had your office, Dr. Cheatham in the transportation department, and/or Dr. William's office indicated any intent to resolve this safety issue. After numerous statements such as \"We feel that the established routes provide adequate and safe service\", there was no doubt that we were being told to \"take it or leave it\"....so we left! We can be contacted at the above address or at (501) 225-6864 if you have questions, comments or would want to further discuss the basis of our decision. Sincerely, (copy) Dione D. Doty Attachment cc (w/attachments): Dr. Henry Williams Dr. Mary Jane Cheatham Dr. Cheryl Simmons Ms. Ann Brown, Federal Monitor Little Rock School Board[E^ESibfl - nnm-rar ^tt^atlKat^ J.mHnuoiitKl^fjjeitigaaK)gtt^ Little Rock School District August 23, 1994 Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Doty 1510 Hillsborough Lane Little Rock, AR 72212 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Doty\nDr. Henry Williams, Superintendent, routing from your address. School. asked me to review the bus 1510 Hillsborough Lane, to Booker Magnet I personally reviewed the routing with information supplied by the Transportation Department. AAss ooff tthhiiss ddaattee,, wwee ddoo nnoott hhaavvpe aa bus that would follow your requested route to Booker Magnet School. The student population of the district students. We strive to provide both , educational environment for our students. is currently over 21,000 an efficient and safe --- I am unable to honor your request , for alternate -b-us -r-o-u-t-i-n3g at this ti-ijLmieHc.. We feel that the established routes provide adequate and safe service. J reconsider your choice of private school. Booker Magnet is an excellent school. I feel that if given the   ----  --- AAV* 1  v_ j I I I 1^, I I opportunity, Erin will be provided a quality education in a safe environment. Sincerely, Dr. Russ Mayo Associate Superintendent RM: dk 810 West Markham Street  Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)324-2000 \"Attachment 1 Page 1 of 2 Details from the August 7, 1994 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article of the 41 Little Rock mundeis (at that date) in 1994. DATE LOCATION DETAILS # BLOCKS TO BUS ROUTE LOCATION # BLOCKS TO BUS STOP LOCATION 1-9-94 2 of 41 2-7-94 4 of 41 2-12-94 5 of 41 2-15-94 6 of 41 3-17-94 12 of 41 **AND MORE! AND3- 25-94 14 of 41 4-17-94 17 of 41 2026 W. 18th Murder location In route from basketball game (Central area) to 2213 Valmar Murder location 3310 W. 16th Assailants address 2421 W. 16th Address of victim of police shooting prosecutors ruled justified 1722 Johnson St. Assailants address Stabbed, CRACK COCAINE in exchange for sex DRIVE BY SHOOTING, FIRED TWO BULLETS, RETRIBUTION FOR AN EARLIER SHOOTING Victim killed by GUNSHOTS in his living room (outside of area) Victim killed after police STAKEOUT, CHASE AND CONFRONTATION. SHOOTING outside of area but stakeout and chase locations not documented Shot victim with .22 CALIBER PISTOL, stolen property sale 4 Blocks 14th \u0026amp; Jones 6 Blocks 14th \u0026amp; Woodrow In route = \"in area of 14th \u0026amp; Woodrow In route \u0026amp; \"in area of NA NA NA **This is the 14/15 year old in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette August 26-30 articles. He was arrested \u0026amp; charged with the 3/17 murder, arrested again in August for carjacking at gunpoint ( 3 felony charges), then arrested again for a drive- by shooting in this area August 26. 3 gun \u0026amp; autO related incidents ..MURDER and CARJACKING and DRIVE-BY SHOOTING 2509 W. 13th Murder location GUNMAN OPENED FIRE as victim emerged from house\npolice say murder was GANG RELATED 1 Block 14th \u0026amp; Thayer 5 Blocks 14th \u0026amp; Woodrow 5 Blocks 15th \u0026amp; Schiller AND 5 Blocks 14th \u0026amp; Woodrow 5 Blocks 14th \u0026amp; Woodrow 4 Blocks 14th \u0026amp; Woodrow AND 6 Blocks 15th \u0026amp; Schiller A 4220 W. 12th Assailants address B. 4310 Maryland Murder location Demanded money from victim\nSHOT SEVERAL TIMES with large-caliber pistol A 4 Blocks 10th \u0026amp; Pine/Cedar B. 3 Blocks Maryland \u0026amp; Pine/Cedar A 8 Blocks 10th \u0026amp; Valmar B. 8 Blocks 10th \u0026amp; ValmarDATE 4-26-94 ' Attachment 1 Page 2 of 2 LOCATION DETAILS # BLOCKS TO BUS ROUTE LOCATION # BLOCKS TO BUS STOP LOCATION 20 of 41 16th \u0026amp; Izard Victim's car found at this location Victim strangled in her home outside of area\nno assailant address\nvictim's car in apartment parking lot NA Exact Location 16th \u0026amp; Izard 5-8-94 23 of 41 A.3510 W 14th Victim's address B. 1608 Park Murder location Victim shot with a HANDGUN, ran a short distance and collapsed at 1608 Park NA A. 5 Blocks 14th \u0026amp; Woodruff B. 2 Blocks 15th \u0026amp; Shiller 5-11-94 24 of 41 3515 1/2 W. nth Assailants address (No murder location noted) Assaikint minutes earlier complained to police officer that victim had stolen his tennis shoes\nassailant STABBED victim after a FOOT CHASE. 1 Block 11th \u0026amp; Valmar 1 Block 10th \u0026amp; Valmar 5-27-94 27 of 41 A. 1520 Oak Victim's address B. 3600 Block of W. 16th Murder location Several men in a car fired a DOZEN OR MORE SHOTS from SEVERAL WEAPONS...UNSOLVED MURDER A \u0026amp; B 6 Blocks 12th \u0026amp; Valmar A \u0026amp; B 7 Blocks 10th \u0026amp; Valmar 9 Blocks 14th \u0026amp; Woodruff 5-30-94 28 of 41 A 1914 Ringo Victim's address B. 1422 Chester Murder location DRIVE-BY SHOOTING, three occupants, two gunshot wounds in chest\nUNSOLVED MURDER A. 5 Blocks 16th \u0026amp; Chester B. 2 Blocks 16th \u0026amp; Chester A 6 Blocks 16th \u0026amp; Izard B. 3 Blocks 16th \u0026amp; Izard AND 6 Blocks Dr. Martin Luther King \u0026amp; 15th 6-18-94 33 of 41 6-11-94 35 of 41  7-10-94 37 of 41 1603 Chester Assailants address A. 1911 Cross Murder location B. 1011 W 20th Assailants' address 1000 block of S Elm Murder location Assaikint called police and said had killed a man with a rock after being threatened with a knife (murder outside of area) Victim's neck was broken when choked \u0026amp; robbed at his home DRIVL-BY SHOOTING\nAS MANY AS EIGHT ROUNDS\nSHOOTER GANG-STYLE CLOTHING\nUNSOLVED MURDER Exact Location 16th \u0026amp; Chester 1 Block 16th \u0026amp; Izard NA 2 Blocks PineZCedar \u0026amp; 10th A \u0026amp; B. 6 Blocks 15th Izard AND 7 Blocks Dr. Martin Luther King \u0026amp; 15 th 6 Blocks 10th \u0026amp; ValmarOffice of Desegregation Monitoring United States District Court  Eastern District of Arkansas Ann S. Brown, Federal Monitor 201 East Markham. Suite 510 Heritage West Building Little Rock. Arkansas 72201 (501)376.6200 Fax (501) 371.0100 September 13, 1994 Mrs. Mary Jane Cheatham Transportation Department Little Rock School District 5400 Murray Street Little Rock, AR 72209 Dear Mary Jane: At 7:57 a.m. this morning, I had too close an encounter with a LRSD bus. As 1 was driving east on 17th street just past Rockefeller School, bus 40C lOE pulled out of McAlmont Street right in front of me, causing me to slam on my brakes to prevent a collision. The bus was traveling much too fast, and only slowed at the intersection of McAlmont and 17th. At first, I thought the driver had run a stop sign at the intersection, but then I realized that there is no stop sign at the comer of McAlmont and 17th to run, because McAlmont is a one-way street going south-and the bus was headed north! The bus contained no passengers that I could see, but my car certainly did, because I was making my morning rounds to drop my kids off at school. Besides the obviously serious dangers of going the wrong way on a one-way street (and in a big hurry to boot), I believe that that particular traffic violation results in an automatic 3-point ticket, which carries a high fine. I know you'll agree that the LRSD cannot afford the potential expenses in either safety costs, fines, or negative public relations. I trust that you'll instruct the driver of bus 40C lOE to go and sin no more. This incident causes me to wonder anew about the quality and extent of the safety instruction which LRSD bus drivers receive. I'm aware from personnel at the Arkansas Department of Education that the LRSD has sent no representative to the State's summer driver training institute in Hot Springs, even though participation would cost the district nothing because the State pays all costs. As a matter of fact, I understand the district would stand to gain some $31,000 as a result of LRSD's full participation in the State's training programs. That amount of money would enable the district to hire its own full-time safety trainer and supervisor, or it could be put to some other use that would help reassure parents that the LRSD is doing everything possible to ensure the safety of commuting children.Page Two September 13, 1994 Incidents involving bus transportation cause the district much negative and damaging publicity. I believe it would be wise for us to take advantage of every available opportunity to turn those negatives into positives. I know of no substitute for regular, quality, comprehensive, and preventive driver training Because transportation is such an integral part of the desegregation plan, please provide the information requested on the attachment by the end of the month. Thank you very much for your assistance. Sincerely yours. Ann S. Brown cc\nRuss MayoSeptember 13, 1994 Provide the following written information to the Office of Desegregation Monitoring no later than September 30, 1994: 1. Describe the LRSD's bus driver training program objectives, content, and schedule which the district routinely follows, or at least followed in preparation for this school year. 2. Attach a copy of the curriculum and handouts which accompany the training. 3. List the names of the trainers and their training background or other relative training qualifications. 4. Indicate the number of drivers who received training and the date that they completed the training program. 5. List the number of drivers who have not received training and the date by which these drivers will have been trained\nexplain why any drivers have not completed training. 6. Describe the kind of follow-up training you provide for those who miss initial pre-service training sessions? 7. Explain the district's rationale for not participating in ADE's summer training program and subsequent training activities. 8. Describe any plans for future participation in ADE's training programs. 9. Name who is presently responsible for overseeing safety training and supervision\ninclude the job description(s) for the individual(s). 10. Describe the consequences (sanctions and remedial instruction) given drivers who commit safety violations.RECEIVED DEC 2 7 1991 December 21, 1994 Giiica of Dessgregaticn ...onao.tng Judy Magness Little Rock School Board, Zone 3 708 Hall Dr. Little Rock, AR 72205 Dear Ms. Magness: I am writing to let you know about some frustrations with school bus transportation this year not necessarily because it is happening to me and my student but because it may be happening systemwide and may need the attention of our School Board and administration. For six years I have been completely satisfied with the school bus transportation. Other than a few times when the bus was late or failed to arrive, it picked my son up every morning on a corner near our house. The convenience and reliability of the bus was one of the things for which I praised the Little Rock Public Schools - in addition to Carver Magnet School, the best school in the world. THIS year has been completely different. The 2IC bus has been frequently late and has failed to arrive several times each month. Then on November 28, I sent a note to school explaining that we would be moving November 3 0 and requested a new bus stop for my son. The school called and said it might take a week but that the request would be forwarded to the Transportation Department that day. Now it's December 21, more than three weeks later, and we still don't have a bus stop. I have talked several times each week to the school and the Transportation Department and have not received any answer for what might be taking so long - other than administrative approvals. My husband has talked personally with the Transportation Director. A bus stop already is established about a mile from our new house, according to the schedule for Bus 211. One morning we arrived there early and waited for 30 minutes. No other students were at that bus stop, and no bus ever arrived. I have been taking my child to school most days - about a 40-minute round-trip. A few days I have let him stay home. Some mornings he has gone late when my husband went to work downtown.If other parents and students are experiencing similar frustrations, those who can afford other choices would probably choose a private school. I hope that our public school recruiters who try to persuade new residents to choose public schools over private schools do not have to also tell them that it will take a month or more to get their student on a bus. I realize that it is ultimately my responsibility to make sure my especially child gets to school every day. However, when the public school system promotes public school enrollment, it also touts convenient bus transportation - in rhe case of magnet/incentive schools in hard-to-desegregate locations far from the homes of most white families. in public school Although I haven't been directly involved administration for several years, it was always my understanding that the State of Arkansas pays for magnet school transportation and that it's rather expensive. Surely with all the state tax money being spent on magnet school transportation, a more reliable system could be provided for those of us who choose to attend public schools. Respectfully, Scharmel Wilson work: 664-3600 cc: Superintendent of Schools Transportation Director Student Assignment Office Ann Brown, Desegregation Monitor Donna Creer, Magnet Review :ommittee Linda Pondexter, School Board President John Riggs, School Board Carver Magnet School?^p,/ SD SEP 2 0 1995 Office of Desegrsgaiiffli Monncnng fyi/ l/^e--i_ 3 o i\u0026lt; p A. fi c\u0026gt; /*T\u0026lt;i t! '/Vv j4^'/'^Qi'i\u0026lt;f^ 'i 'i- Dr. ( \u0026lt;y Oy zO ' w -^^SV xz LiH\u0026lt; R,oci(. Schoo/ Gi^i-i'ci- Ui'l'lx 1^0 c t -) -jL. -ZL.O^ '^4- Uk^ Cixi r ___________ ________5, _ - ____Cc^J 1 ____ 1^Qx:iy\u0026lt;^-k, L_^ c\u0026gt;\\_ Zlo H.Zb LijdiLjz_ , ^\u0026lt;H-e ( fi, tU-OO rec. Sl-r bo-tK, Cii/f . (v. p lt\u0026gt; \u0026lt;y o-p ^cL __Cc, l( ._. ol^o,^ 4- _ ha \u0026amp; ~l^ h\u0026lt;^'^ C\u0026amp;r-'i'Q.cf'efi /I. noui-s^ Cy old .c, -.D. M l_4 _ G $ Si ila __ r^i\\^ _ /3f o IX/ iV\"__ t. 5 c\u0026gt;Aft v k ... -- .'__^: _r___ a rr):iCi, O OAzq., jlf.__Ql( i^ /'Ixj, ei,loi\u0026gt;L\u0026gt;~t } Aj J\u0026gt; b . 1 Ct\u0026lt; iti.II, J.S +hl 4'k\u0026lt; ._Lq:a I'lQ,'* /- 4'0 roult cih-d QysZ-e^ 4o 4-0 33 e s 3C h Po 4'ha4 X 4a\u0026lt;^e I \\je Xz'y 3 Cbu^k^'l-c i~. 6 C Cciu i, t-lVCu^ Kio-Vk t \u0026lt;7 c?p- bos C-A^hz^c. y'iu 'kc s 4% v w ?i iw f' S?r i \" ' f. ) i 810 West Markham Street  Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  (501)82^2000 It LriTTE R()('k School Distkkt OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT April 29, 1996 \" * / : Mr. Spence Holder, Coordinator School Transportation Arkansas Department of Education 4 State Capitol Mall. Room 204-A ! it Little Rock. AR '996 122Q\\ K Dear Mr. Holder\nI am appointing Mary Jane Cheatham. Director of Transportation, as the Little Rock School District's representative to serve on the Interdistrict Transportation Authority (ITA). If I can be of assistance to the committee, please contact me. Sincerely, / Henry P. WJrilliams Superintendent of Schools HPW/ca c: Mary Jane Cheatham Bobby Acklin. NLRSD Ed Hogan, PCSSD Melissa Guldin. ODM Janinne Riggs. Governors Office Cynthia Howell. Arkansas Democrat Gazette HIO West Miu kliain Street Little K\u0026lt;x:k, Arkiui.siw 7221)1 (.501)\nt2t-2IX)t) 8.15 96 14:33 S301 324 2023 LRSD COMMVMCATI ODM @002. 002 LnTLE kocK Scu(joL District For linraediate Release August 15, 1996 For more information: SucUen Vann, 324-2020 The Little Rock School District (LRSD) .and Laidlaw Transit, Inc. are planning bus routes for the 14,000 students who will be traasported to Linle Rock schools beginning Monday. August 19. l^aidlaw i,s mailing letters today to parents to inform hem of assigned bus routes and bus stops. Some parent': will receive a phone call instead of a letter due to some last minute assignments Laidlaw has established a telephone b:inii to provide assistance to parents who have questions related to school bus routes. Ihe ntimbei- for telephone assistance is -6085. It will be staffed Satuiday and Sundav. .August 17 and 18, from 1 p.m. until 5 . \" Beginning Monday. August 19, the phone lines will be staffed from 6:30 a-.m. until 5:30 p.m. If the phone lines are busy, callers may leave a message, and a staff'member will return the call. / 810 West Markham Street  Little Rock, Arkansas 72201  \u0026lt;501)834-2000 lPSD AWIIN. BiiLDINS ?4-2032 Sep 20 96 11:49 P. 02/02 fj t I =j I ra' 1-501 Ml I-ii fLF K(){k School District i\" For fm mt'diiitr Rfltase Homemade Mixiure Spifh on school Rus ^epfembtT 20, 1 s\u0026gt;06 for nioie infomiatton. Suellen Vann. 3'24-202(.i sI I I A mnth grade .special education stttaent from Mabelvale Junior High School took a plastic bottle tilled with a homemade bretv onto her school bus this mommg. The bottle conuiinej several household rocks a\nid other items. materials, including vinegar, aspirin witch hazel, aqaariiun The motion of the bus apparent caused the mixture to expand, and rhe top of ihe bottle .amc otf a vapor dowd formed, and foe Lmie Roek Polne and fore Depanrnents were called the scene. No students were injured, although a bus aide later wen, to foe hospital for treatment of her to Mabelvale Junior High. asthma. .All parents were contacted, and students Im, 1 ulfcrton pr,napal pf Mrt,|vrt, Ju,r H.^h. enticed ,h  assigmiients were given which would cau.se the studeni to attempt the home were taken eKperimentation. Transportation officials sard tlie school bus v^ ill be returned to been thoroughly cleaned 810 West Markham Stre ti-rfU: I tie Rofk, Arka. ,n\u0026gt;i TasOl Service after it has  (501 laaAtJOoo 12/04/1996 14:13 FROM JOHN 1.1. W fi L K E R P . fl . TO 710100 F' . 0 2 JOHN W. WALKR, P.A. / 723 Broadway Little Rock, Arkansas 72206 Telephone (501)374-3758 Fax (501) 374-4187 JOHN W. WALKER RALPH WASHINGTON MARK BURNETTE AUSTIN PORTER JR. KJ^LBERLYR. DICKSON December 4, 1996 Mr. Fred Smith Executive Manager of Laidlaw Laidlaw Transportation 5400 Murray Drive Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 Dear Mr. Smith\nThis is to put you on notice that we are making a claim for damages regarding Laidlaw's failure to deliver Byran Hodges to Washington Magnet School on time for most of this year and thus, for causing him to miss valuable class time. We are also making a claim for Laidlaw's failure to even pick him up and for Laidlaw's frequent return of him to his drop-off point as late as 7:30 p.m. Byran is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Byran Hodges, No. 33 Perdue Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas 72204. He is eleven years old. The damage claim is for $100 per day for each day that he was late\n$200 per day for the days that he was not picked up at all\nand, $250 for each day that he was not returned home by at least 5:00 p.m. This acknowledges for settlement purposes an hour leeway in the afternoon for his return home Would either you or your authorized representative please contact me at your earliest convenience.\nrely. C Id (hn W. Walker JWW\nlp cc\nDr. Don Roberts Ms. Ann BrownI\" PT 12-^04\u0026lt;1996 ri:74 FROM JOHM W.WfiL.KER P.fi. t TO 0710130 r ' / P. 02 r\n\\ i fOHN W. WALKER, Pji. I'  -t-r- 1723 Broadwaji Littli Ruck, Arkansas 72206 Telephone (501) 374-3758 Fax (501) 374-4187 k LV. /OHN -W. W.4LKSR RAlS-n WASHJNGTOS MARKBUJiNEm AUSTIN PORTSB/B-KIMBTRiyU DICKSON December 4,1996 I?\n/'./ 'I-Ms Ann Brown ' Office of Desegregation Monitoring Heritage West Bldg, 201 E. Markham, Suite 510 Little Rock, Arkansas Dear Ms Brown We continue to receive many complaints re\nLaidlaw's transportation practices The primary complaint is that the buses are late in pick-up and delivery and that the children are subjected to loss of school time and are left in. unsafe circumstances both before and after school by the circumstances 1 ask that your office inquire into tins matter. I also ask that you inquire into the accuracy of the record keeping of the schools with respect to transportation, ft is my observation that the schools document earlier arrival times of buses than actual and earlier leave time from schools in the j, afternoons than actual. I believe the situation is so serious that it warrants a review by the Court of the entire matter 'fhank you for your attCDtion to this matter / / . Sincerely, - rhe v. Walker .  t / V s i..l. M \u0026lt; ri ,-i r}  '-.H 41 X' 5 ^ /.'a iHiM I TOTAL r . \u0026lt;5 3received UcC 1 1 1996 Office of Dasegregaiion Momonii^ \u0026amp;4X CITY OF LITTLE ROCK PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT TELECOPIER TRANSMITTAL COVER SHEET FAX NUMBER: (501) 371-6832 DATE\nTO: FAX#: TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES (Including Cover Sheet) '1 IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE ALL THE PAGES OR IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE, CONTACT AT (501) 371-///^- ^MESSAGE, 10d 2889 US IOS 'ON XVJ 0?d STdW m HUI O 96-lI-O'^E\u0026gt;2' - December 11. 1996 Dear, Mrs. Ann Brown December 16, 1996 there will be an emergency call meeting for concern parents. This organize meeting has been scheduled out of concern for the .safety' and education of oui Laidlaw 'Il'ansportation has breach there contract. On several mornings our children arc being left standing on bus stops for hours at a time, arriving at .school late or missing school. They are returning home late at night. This sendee has been happening children. since the beginning of .school, and we are asking oiir school hoard official and superintendent to attend. Please RSVP by Friday December 13, 1996 at 371-4442. The meeting will take place Mondav December 16, 1996 at 7:00 - S:00 P.M. at the South Little. Rock Recreation Center 2701 Main Street. cc\nJohn Walker,P.A. 0'd 25SlilOS 'ON XVd 03a 3 SHdt 33 IDH 0313 96-U-03C 12 17 1996 17 1 7 FROM JOHN U.WA L K E R P.A. TO 3710100 P.O\nM-' John W. Walker, P.A. Attcr.nty .Xt Law 1723 Broadway Little Rock. .-Xkkansas 72206 Telephone (501) 374-3758 FAX (501) 374-4187 JOHN W. W.aLKER RALPH W.ASHINGTON NL4RKBURNOTE AUSTIN PORTER. JR- . KIMBERLY R. DIUKSO.N via Facsinilo - 371-0100 December 17, 1996 Ha. Ann Brown, Federal Monitor Qffice of Desegregation Monitoring 201 East Markham, Suite 510 Ms Little Rock, AR 72201 Re: Laidlaw Transportation Dear Ms. Brown: find ay report of the parent nesting on last Enclosed please tina ay xeyvii. wj. ---- 7\" the transportation of Little Rock students by evening regarding t.----s-- Laidlaw. Hr. Walker asked that I share these with you. Hr. Also by copy of this letter to Dr. him with a copy of the same. Roberts, I aa providing Sincerelv Joy C. Springer JCS/ cc: Dr. Don Roberts, I Z17/I 996 17: IS FROM JOHN IJ, IJ S L K e R P . fl . TO 3'10100 P.O: ot Meeting of Concerned Parents the Little Rock School District Laidlaw's Transportation Regarding of LR8P atudeota The facilitator reported that of this meeting, Ms. Phyllis Hodges, she invited the Superintendent of Little Rock ~ Don Roberts, all members of the Board of school District, Dr. Don Roberts, ail mem^rs or yne nv. Education of the Little Rock School District, Office of Desegregation Monitoring Monitor Ann Brown, a representative from^^idlaw^Transportation, Ed Streeter and m^ers of the Press to this meeting.- There was no one administration present at the meeting. from the LRSD central office Only Dr. Michael Daughtery of thX Little Rock School District Board of Directors member from the Arkansas Democrat\"*Gazette and was present- State Press were also present. he Arkansas A Anecdotal Statements\n1) elementary Parents from Washington, Fulbright, and Rockefeller y schools and Horace Mann and Dunbar junior high schools that their children have waited at the bus stop for reoorted that their children nave waiuea ar we cut. Laidlaw buses as late as 10:00 a.m. and that their children have a-r-rivod as late as 7:00 p.m. from school. These delays have arrived school, occurred on more than one occasion. 2) 2) Several of these parents reported that when they have contacted school district officials regarding their concerns, referred to Laidlaw officials who have either refused their telephone calls or did not give a satisfactory they were to return explanation for the delays. 3) for buses on Several of these parents reported that they have waited several occasions and buses have not shown up to pick up their children. 4) 4) It was reported by at least one parent that inexperienced and substitute drivers accounted for many of the delays. 5) 5) It was reported by at least one parent that they believed that the District was not concerned about these students loosing valuable educational time. 6) 6) Several parents reported that they are being inconvenienced by having to take their children to school because of Laidlaw's failure to pick up their children. 7) Several parents complained that they believed, at one of12- 17 1??6 17: 1 ? FROM JOHN 1.1. M A L k E F P . fl . TO 3710100 the reasons, for Laidlaw's delay in transporting students timely to school was Laidlaw's failure to communicate to the District officials changes in routes and pickups. IN SUMMARY were approximately 30 parents present at the meeting oj^ last evening, one point that I gleamed from the meeting was that Laidlaw was contracted by the Little Rock School District to transport LRSD's students to their respective schools as a cost saving measure, however, the costs being incurred by the District are much greater than actually reported when you make an assessment of the valuable educational time that students are loosina when they are late to school and being returned home late from school. Finally, I believe it is appropriate to make inquiry regarding the District's monitoring and current evaluation and assessment of Laidlaw's delivery of the services. I intend to make this inquiry by separate memorandum. Prepared by Joy C. Springer Joshua Intervenors  e*. i 1998 1 501-324-2eZ LRSD l'OMM'JNICATZONS PAGE 0'2/02 Little Kock School District For Immediate Release February 17. 1998 For more information: Edward E. Streeter or Lori Howell, 570-4000 Lzaidlaw Drivers Recognized for '\"K.oad-eo W ins School bus drivers from Izaidlax.' Transit, Inc. competed in the first annual .Mid- S'^trth School Bus Road-eo in Mempais last weekend, and on Wednesday drivers will be recognised for their outstan.di.ng nerforniiinee. The purpose of the Road-eo was to provide each driver the opportunity to dentocstrate ,^lis/'her driAinu skills by safely maneuvering a school bus through a challenging course. The competition included the following events\nStudent Leading Student L'nloading Alley Dock Rjuht Ttim R.ailroad Crossina Stop Line Test rite Serpentine Straight I,me Backin.g Diminished Clearance l.aidfaw drivers who demonstrated supenor driting skills were Howard Jones, first place\nSherri Bank,s. second place\nand Dwayne Holmes, third place. Drivers were awarded tropines and cash prizes, and they brought the Grose Cup back to Little P\u0026lt;ock where it will remain until next year's competition. The driver recogmtion will be held on Wednesday, May 20, at 9:30 a m. at the Laidlaw facility 5400 Murray Sueet. 810 Wert 'latHUdti Street Little Kock. .Arkansas 72201  ..501\u0026gt;324-2000 f 5rr .c i\n0: --A \u0026lt;36. 14:38 . 5017324-2023' LRSD communications ' PAGE 0'2/.02 Little Rock School District ll^ )  P J I July 6, 1998 For Immediate Release For more information: Sucllen Vann, 324-2020 I Bus Information Meetings Public Service Announcement Little Rock School District parents can get the latest school bus news by attending one of three meetings scheduled this summer. Laidlaw Transit and the Little. Rock !r 1 School District will host transportation meetings on July July 26*. and August 9*. All meetings will be held trom 3:00 until 5:00 p.m. in the Little Rock School District Administration Building, 810 West Markham. Staff members will be on hand to inform parents and students about school bus transportation and answer any questions parents might, have. Buster the Friendly Bus' will attend the meetings to educate and entertain the children. For more information, please contact Laidlaw Transit at 570-4000 or the Little 1 Rock School District at .324-2000. I  f 810 West Street  Littie Rock. Arkansas 72201  (501)024'2000 id 1 i 01/14/1999 15:56 501-324-2023 LRSD COMMUNICATIONS PAGE 01/01 I. 810 West Markham Little Rock, AR 72201 Phone: Fax: (501)324-2020 (501)324-2032 DATE\nJanuary 14,1999 TO\nCentral Arkansas Media Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette FROM: Suellen Vann, Director of Communications SUBJECT: Special School Board Meeting MESSAGE: The Little Rock School District (LRSD) Board of Directors will hold a special meeting this afternoon in conjunction with its regular agenda meeting. The special meeting will he held to consider proposed Board policies and negotiations with Laidlaw Transit, Inc. for transportation for the 1999-2000 school year The meetings will begin at 5:00 p.m. in the Board Room of the LRSD Administration Building 810 West Markham. # Pages (including cover) 1 lb Fax# Preparing students for success every dayArkansas Democrat gazette SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1993  1 School bus hits car, injuring 8 LR pupils Bus driver cited for improper turn r ) IIlift* 1 BY OLIVIER UYTTEBROUCK AND DANNY SHAMEER Democrat-Gazette Staff Writers Eight students were treated for minor injuries Friday after the Little Rock School District bus they were riding in struck a car. The accident comes a week after a Pulaski County first-grader was struck and killed by a bus. And late Thursday, a 15-year-old North Little Rock boy was struck in the head by a brick as he rode a bus from a football game at Central High School. He was treated at a North Little Rock hospital and released. In the accident Friday, Little Rock School District bus driver Tony Darryl Burse was cited for an improper left turn, police said. The bus, en route to Pulaski Heights Elementary School, carried 27 students. Little Rock School District buses experienced 14 accidents in September, said Brad Montgomery, the districts transportation director. Police cited bus drivers in six of those accidents, he said. In September 1992, there were 16 accidents involving buses, three of which involved ticketing the driver. The district hasnt compiled accident reports to date for this school year. The North Little Rock School District has had six collisions involving school buses from July 1 through Oct. 1. Police ticketed bus drivers in three of the incidents. And in the same period, four Pulaski County Special School District buses had accidents, including two in which the drivers were given tickets. In Fridays accident, police said the bus collided with a car as the bus driver tried to turn left onto B Street from Cedar. The driver veered into the right See ACCIDENT, Page ISA fv ii 1\n it .* iO. CHILDREN INJURED  Two students wait for MEMS paramedics to remove them from their Little Rock School District bus after the bus collided with a car at North Cedar Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Steve Kees^ and B streets Friday morning. Eight children were slightly injured. The bus was en route to Pulaski Heights Elementary School. Accident  Continued from Page 1A lane then turned left across the left lane. The car struck the left side of the bus, police said. Burse, 31, told police he swung wide to more easily enter the narrow street and failed to see a 1988 Chevrolet Corsica in his rearview mirror. Burse also said he signaled a left turn. District officials didnt know Friday whether Burse has been cited before. He was hired Aug. 16. Montgomery said that in accidents such as this one, in which there does not appear to be significant property damage or serious negligence, no suspension is warranted. District drivers are allowed three chargeable incidents before they are recommended for termination. The eight injured students were treated for cuts and scrapes at Arkansas Childrens Hospital, then released, a hospital spokesman said. ' The driver of the Chevrolet, Gwendolyn Watson, 23, of 2000 . Rebsamen Road was treated at University Hospital in Little Rock and released, a hospital spokesman said.\nOn Oct. 1, William Cody Wade, 6, a first-grade Bates Elementary School student, was struck by a Pulaski County Special School District bus at an intersection near his home. That accident occurred when driver Kaye Martin, 48, of Mabelvale, accelerated after she let Wade and several other children off the bus at the intersection of Dreher Road and Ada Lane in south Pulaski County. BUS ACCIDENT  MEMS paramedic Pat Bajorek carries injured pupii Jeff McCox, 9. from a Little Rock School District bus after an accident Friday at North Cedar and B Arkansas Oemocral-Qazette/Steve Keesee streets. Eight children suffered minor injuries. The accident comes a week after a Pulaski County Special School District first-grader was struck and killed by a bus. Martin told Pulaski County sheriffs deputies she was distracted by several children who were arguing and didnt see Wade in front of the bus. In the brick-throwing incident Thursday night, Robert Andrew Pugh was struck in the right temple as he rode a bus from Quigley Stadium at 16th and Jones streets, police said. Pugh, a student at North Little Rock High School East, was treated at Baptist Memorial Medical Center in North Little Rock and released after the 10 p.m. incident, a hospital spokesman said. In a similar incident Friday, three Little Rock students told police they were struck by rocks while riding a bus at 23rd and Abigail streets. None of the students was injured, police said. During the 1992-93 school year, there were 158 accidents involving Little Rock District bus drivers, of which 68 involved ticketing the driver. Democrat ^(gazette. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1993  LR School Board ponders plan to Arm itself for bus safety BY KRIS HUNTER Democrat-Gazette Staff Writer Concern for the safety of children traveling on school buses has the Little Rock School Board considering the use of the Arm, a guardrail that would be attached to the outside of school buses. Talk of that new safety precaution, expanded bilingual programs and the Stephens Incentive Elementary School site dominated discussion at the boards agenda meeting Thursday. One Arm has been given to the district, with no obligation to buy, officials said. A board spokesman said specifics on how the device works are still not clear, though apparently it is a rail that would protrude from either the side or front of a school bus when it stops, warding off traffic and guarding the children getting on or off. To address the needs of the school districts 400-500 students from other countries, the board is seeking a federal grant to expand bilingual programs. The proposal, which requests $175,000 for each of the next three years, calls for hiring more tutors and buying more instructional materials. Surveys show 66 different languages within the school district, the board was told. The board is also gathering statistical information on student populations in its attempt to resolve controversy over a new site for Stephens Incentive Elementary School, now at 3700 W. 18th St. Though U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled the school could not remain at the 18th Street site, the board is appealing that decision. The ruling stipulated that Stephens would be replaced with a new interdistrict elementary school in the Interstate 630 corridor, between Interstate 30 and University Avenue. Jerry Malone an attorney for the district, said that since the ruling, one source of disagreement has been whether the school would have to be visible from Interstate 630. The information being collected is necessary to determine if enough children live in the 18th Street area to attend the elementary school, whatever the boards stance on the site, Malone said. Stephens has 180 students, from 4-year-oIds to sixthgraders. Since the school has to be rebuilt as an interdistrict school  one close to an even number of black and white stu- i dents  the site has been or- ! dered closed by August 1995. The real issue is whether or not we want to take another school out of a black communi- , ty, Superintendent Henry J Williams told the board. J If we close another school in the black community we are f telling them that their children I dont matter, the boards Linda Pondexter said.Arkansas Democrat (Bazcttc . WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1993 LR school bus driver arrested on warrants Little Rock School District bus driver William Montgomery was arrested on the job Tuesday morning for outstanding warrants. District Transportation Director Brad Montgomery (no relation to William Montgomery) said Little Rock police stopped the driver for speeding. He had just dropped off one load of students at a school and was on his way to pick up another load. After stopping the bus, police learned one or more warrants had been issued for William Montgomerys arrest. Brad Montgomery said police believe William Montgomery had a suspended drivers license. Brad Montgomery said his staff checks drivers for licenses at least twice a year. A check earlier this school year did not show William Montgomerys license had been suspended, he said. Brad Montgomery said William Montgomery was suspended pending a final decision on his employment.Arkansas Democrat (gazette  THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11,1993 Bus driver for LRSD facet 3 traffic counts, dismissal\n, Little Rock School District bus driver William Montgomery, arrested Tuesday, will stand trial Nov. 24 on charges of driving on a suspended license, reckless driving and speeding, police said. Montgomery also faces a misdemeanor charge in Sherwood for allegedly writing a hot check, Sherwood police said Wednesday. The school board recommended Montgomery be fired. Deputy Superintendent Es- . telle Matthis said Wednesday night. Matthis said the driver was hired based on excellent references. Dr. Henry Williams, district superintendent, said the driver was hired Oct. 29 and the district had not received a response to its request for in- , formation on his driving record at the time of his arre^ Williams said new employI ees are sometimes allowed!.to drive buses even before-a record check is completed if there is a critical need. ' Brad Montgomery, district director of transportation, said Tuesday that William Moii- gomery was arrested after ie delivered one group of students to a school and while-on his way to pick up another group. Brad Montgomery and William Montgomery are not related. William Montgomerys trial will be in Little Rock Munfei- , pal Traffic Court, police said. IArkansas Democrat (Bazctte  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1993 Insurer to review school bus service 5 I Williams reports BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer The Little Rock School Districts insurance company will conduct a comprehensive study of the districts transportation department, Superintendent Henry Williams said Tuesday. The Gallagher Bassett Insurance Co., which carries the districts vehicle and property insurance, will look at virtually all facets of the embattled departments operations, including safety records, driver histories, employee training programs, bus routes and stops, and traffic patterns. The department, the drivers and the unruly student passengers on some of the buses have come under scrutiny in recent weeks by various news organizations, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The study is expected to begin around Dec. 1. 'The company, which approached the school district about performing the evaluation, is charging a fee of under $5,000, a district official said, but the actual cost could not be determined Tuesday night. Williams made the announcement about the study and responded to questions on such subjects as gifted education, multicultural education, building maintenance and school security at a public forum Tuesday night at Forest Heights Junior High School. About 35 people, half of whom were district employees, attended the session, which was the fourth in a series of forums. The next session will be held at 7 p.m. Nov. 30 at Rockefeller Incentive Elementary School. In addition to the Gallagher study, the district has asked community members to participate on what Williams called a Blue Ribbon Committee to study transportation. Deputy Superintendent Estelle Matthis said representatives of the teachers, bus drivers, the school board, principals, the PTA and the Little Rock Police Department have been asked to become involved. Letters to those groups were mailed this week, and plans call for the group to begin meeting next month. The committee may visit the bus depot, ride a bus or take whatever steps it thinks necessary to develop recommendations for improving the system. Matthis said she and Williams have met with the bus drivers once and have asked them to propose a schedule of regular meetings during which concerns can be discussed. Williams said improved student behavior on the buses will be encouraged by working with students parents and letting them know their children can lose their bus-riding privileges. Adult supervision on problem buses also may have to be considered, he said. When asked about discipline in general, Williams said he would not tolerate disruptive behavior from students or behavior that endangers other children. Williams said school officials have taken an aggressive stand on behavior, but the media is not kind to the district. Were not as violent a population as depicted, he said, and urged his listeners to write to the newspaper to stop printing detrimental information, to stop printing crap.2B , FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1994   Pulaski Arkansas Democrat ':^azcttc Gunshot from passing car strikes LR school bus\nno one hurt  BY OLIVIER UYTTEBROUCK . Democrat-Gazette PolicB Reporter A gunshot fired from a passing car struck the side of a Little Rock School District bus carrying about 10 students Wednesday afternoon, police said. No injuries were report- edJ .Bus driver Arthur Coleman told police the shot was fired about 4:45 p.m. by one of four men in a tan 1984 Chevrolet Cavalier that passed the bus in the 3000 block of Walker Street. The bullet struck the metal frame of the third passenger window on the left side of the bus, cracking the window and sending glass fragments into the bus, Coleman said Thursday. The bullet wasnt found, he said. I heard the bang  it was awful loud, Coleman said. The driver of the car then passed the bus and sped away. They put the pedal to the metal, he said. Police said they searched unsuccessfully for the car and its occupants. Coleman said about 10 students were in the bus during the shooting. No students were in the seat beside the window, he said. Six students, from 12 to 17, remained on board when police arrived in the 2600 block of Walker Street, where Coleman stopped the bus. All were Little Rock residents attending Oak Grove High School in the Pulaski County Special School District. Coleman said he didnt see the gunman. A 17-year-old student on the bus told police one of the passengers in the car held a 9mm pistol out the window and fired. The four occupants wore red and ranged in age from 16 to 18, the student told police. The bus and car were traveling south on Walker Street, a residential street several blocks west of Boyle Park in west Little Rock, police said. Coleman said the students in the bus appeared to have done nothing to provoke the shooting. All the windows were up, he said. No kids were hanging out, giving gang signs or anything.r Democrat^C^azcttc | SATURDAY, MARCH 5 1994 Cwwt* Lime Rock  NeMfspapers. Inc. Teen on school bus hit by flying brick A junior high school student was injured Thursday evening when someone lobbed a brick through a school bus window, Little Rock police said. Little Rock School District bus driver Carolyn Williams told police she saw an unknown teen throw the brick, which struck Henderson Junior High student Shannon Hall, 15, in the face. Williams told police Shannon suffered a laceration under his right eye and several cuts. WEDNESDAY, MAY 11,1994^ School bus riders stone another bus Students on a Little Rock School District school bus threw rocks at another bus Monday afternoon and cracked its windshield, police said. Johnnette Bumworth. 24. tnlH police she was driving a bus car- ~ rying three children at 1200 Cleveland St. about 4 p.m. when students on a bus from Hall High threw rocks that cracked the windshield. Police said there were no injuries.Arkansas Democrat (gazette FRIDAY, MARCH 11,1994 * Boy reports attack awaiting school bus A Little Rock teen-ager was attacked by another youth while waiting for a school bus Wednesday morning. Vondrae Hawkins, 14, told police he was waiting on a bus at Ballinger Street and Apple Cove when an unknown youth approached him and accused him of associating with the Crips gang. Hawkins told police the other youth hit him in the face with a crutch the assailant was carrying. Police said^they could find no obvious signs of injury.Arkansas Democrat W? (gazette FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1994 ~ Shotgun fired twice at school bus stop Gunshots were fired near children who had just gotten off a school bus Wednesday afternoon at Tedbum Circle in Southwest Little Rock, but police reported no injuries. A witness told police that someone in a house on Tedbum Circle fired a shotgun twice near a bus stop where children were present. One youth on the bus told police he had fought with another student Wednesday morning at the bus stop. He told police that when they returned from school, someone from the other stu dents house fired a gun at him.'\"j Arkansas Democrat :^C^azcttc [ FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1994 f Copyright 9 UtUe Rock Newspapers, Inc. I Teen gets off bus, injured by bottle Someone threw a glass bottle Wednesday, injuring a student standing near a Little Rock School District bus he had just exited. Police said the 15-year-old student was hurt about 4\n20 p.m. when a glass bottle shattered near bus No. 23 at 13th and Woodrow streets, injuring the students face. , ISATURDAY, MARCH 19,1994  Suit faults drivers in bus, van accident The family of a Little Rock student filed suit Friday against the Little Rock School District, a school bus driver and a van s driver and owner over a September 1993 school bus accident. , . Michael Ford, whose age and address were unavailable, suffered severe cervical neck sprain with muscle spasms in the collision between a school bus and a 1990 Chevrolet van The suit blamed the wreck on negligence by the drivers of both the van and the bus.Arkansas Denocrat (gazette WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1994  3B LRSD bus drivers, aides warned of possible layoffs i i BY CYNTHIAHOWELL Democrat-Gazette Bucation Writer The Little Rode School District has put its sdiool bus drivers and aides or. notice that they could be laid off at the end of the school year. All but 80 of the driver and aide jobs could be eliminated if the school board decides in May to contract with a private company to operate thebus system, Superintendent Heiry Williams said in a letter to employees dated Friday. Union officialswill meet with bus driver representatives early next week to decide how to respond, said Eleanor Coleman, president of the Classroom Teachers Association. The CTA is the bargaining agent for the transportation employees through June 30, when the contract expires. Williams has not made a formal recommendation to the school board to reduce the size er contracting with private com- of the transportation depart- \"  ment but said in the letter to employees he may do so at the April 28 board meeting. The district would send out layoff notices if the board approves a private contractor, which could occur in May. District staff members have been working with a transportation consultant from Geor- pa to develop a proposal for hiring a transportation company. School board members had asked administrators to consid- panics for some noneducation jobs to save money. The school district must cut about $72 million to balance the 1994-95 budget. Administrators have estimated that they could save about $600,000 by hiring a private transportation company. The districts transportation department has 344 employees and a budget of $6 million this year. That includes 215 regular route drivers, 24 full-time substitute drivers, 41 special-education bus drivers and 41 aides who ride the special-education vehicles. The rest include supervisors, dispatchers, a custodian, eight mechanics, a shop foreman, a secretary, a driver trainer, a director of operations, an administrator-coordinator and a director. The department transports about 14,000 students each day on 558 routes with 306 buses. The department also transports Little Rock students who attend schools in the North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special school districts as interdistrict desegregation transfer students. Williams said transportation employees with the most seniority would be eligible for the 80 positions the district might retain. Those employees might drive a limited number of routes to meet the needs of students who have special needs, such as children with disabilities. The Pulaski County district also is considering hiring a private company to operate the transportation system. North Little Rock School District bffi-\ncials have said they are interested in a private Ijus company only to the extent of transporting the interdistrict transfer students.. y.Arkansas Democrat (gazette ^DNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1994 Workers picket over LRSD plan to privatize school bus service BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Oemocrat'Gazette Education Writer About two dozen Little Rock School District bus drivers and aides picketed at the districts Administration Building on Tuesday morning over a proposal to hire private companies to operate most of the bus system next fall. Neddie Nichols, a 10-year driver for the district and head of the local teachers unions bus drivers unit, said the informational picket may continue today if the weather permits. Drivers also are expected to picket before the Little Rock School Board meeting set for 6 p.m. Thursday. Nichols said Tuesday that drivers believe they will lose their jobs or benefits if the dis- j trict proceeds with plans to privatize the transportation department. I dont understand why we are the ones who have to pay for their mismanagement Nichols said. She said the employees have tried to work with the district to cut unnecessary costs and reduce absenteeism._________ I dont understand why we are the ones who have to pay for their mismanagement  Neddie Nichols School district officials are requesting bids from private  companies to take over the department as a way to save money and operate the system more efficiently. District officials must trim next years, expenses by more than $7 million to balance the budget and avoid an illegal deficit In the request for bids on the job, the district is requiring private companies to hire all current, qualified district employees and to pay them their current base wages and benefits as long as the employees work for them. Nichols said the picketing is also intended to tell the public that the drivers care about students and are not, as a group, conducting any kind of work slowdown. Since early this month, as many as 60 of the districts 300 drivers have been absent, making buses and students late in arriving at or leaving schools. Nichols said she believes some drivers are using up their accumulated sick leave days to avoid losing the days if and when the department is privatized. Drivers earn one sick day a month.I Arkansas Democrat (gazette THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1994 Copyright 9 Utte Rock Newspapers. Inc. Driver shortage delays students in LR district District has 42 positions open, making buses up to an hour late BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat*Gazette Education Writer The Little Rock School District has 20 bus driver vacancies that officials say must be filled immediately to reduce the number of late buses plaguing students, parents and schools. Brad Montgomery, district transportation director, said 22 drivers did not report to work Wednesday morning. Coupled with the vacancies, the department also is 42 drivers short, causing buses to be as much as an hour late getting students to school. Wednesday was typical of the problems faced daily by the transportation department in recent weeks. The district has 22 full-time substitute drivers on its staff of about 280 drivers. The substitutes drive routes when regular drivers dont report to work because of illness or other reasons. The absentee rate among drivers is worse than it was this time last year because the district in 1993 hired more drivers to pick up the stack, Montgomery said. But the response to help-wanted advertisements this year has been slow, Montgomery said. The high absentee and vacancy rates among drivers are attributed to several factors, he said. Drivers often begin taking new jobs in the spring, knowing that bus driving jobs end when school is dismissed for the summer. Also, district employees, including drivers, are speculating that some drivers are taking sick leave days in anger or fear over a district proposal to hire a private company to operate the transportation department next year. If the Little Rock School Board approves the proposal, most drivers no longer would be district employees. The district is trying to protect current employees in the event the department is privatized. Any company given the system contract must hire all qualified, current employees at their current rate of pay and guarantee benefits equal to what the employees get now. Those benefits include health and dental insurance, short-and long-term disability insurance and a retirement plan. People who want to apply for driver jobs should contact the transportation department, which is at 5400 Murray St., at 570-4000 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Applicants must be at least 21, hold a valid drivers license and have no more than one moving violation on their driving records. Applicants must pass a drug test. Once an applicant is hired, the driver will be trained to become eligible for a commercial drivers license. Bus driver pay ranges from $37.13 per day to $57.16. Drivers work about five hours a day, but the work is split into two shifts, one that begins at 6:30 a.m. and ends about 9 a.m. Drivers must return to work at about 1:45 p.m. for the afternoon routes.Aikansas Democrat NiSpais. Inc. L  r:.S Sc btt lib (TW ONE HURT  A Southwest Junior High student peers from a school bus window a few feet away from the win- I* - d IV r* Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Steve Keesee dow shattered Wednesday when someone threw a rock at the vehicle. Student hurt when rock breaks bus window A 15-year-old Southwest Junior High School student suffered minor injuries Wednesday when a rock thrown by another student shattered a school bus window and struck him in the head, police said. The incident was the second in three days when a Little Rock School District student threw a stone and broke a bus window. The rock struck Farley Mosley of 1616 Izard St., Apartment 101, on the left side of the head at 8:10 a.m. Wednesday, Little Rock police said. Mosley was treated at Arkansas Childrens Hospital and released, a hospital spokesman said. Students at the bus stop identified a Southwest Junior High School seventh-grader as the rock thrower. 'The bus driver told police she had just made a stop at 14th and Allis streets when the rock shattered the third window from the front on the bus left side. The incident followed one Monday afternoon when students on a b IS from Hall High School threw rocks that cracked the windshield of another Little Rock School District bus with three children aboard, police said. L Aribas Democrat ^(^azcttc THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1994 Copyngnt  Little Rock Newsoapers. Inc. Truck, bus collide J #'  r f r  fZ |z.\nByij h 3L ^.. jr :ggggt3^ ^*-- f '\n4i.. _?S*p?^v -o- i# s !rf aBBtt t . 2. ^3*\"' iSi\"- T5. WSP w 2^ 3\u0026gt; J3 ^\u0026lt;ap: I g ? \u0026gt;i fi \u0026lt; i?x *:5^ 5 V t rl' r'*\u0026gt;M .Y- .-VrM\u0026lt;\u0026gt; S^Mi it \u0026lt;jS .' L\u0026gt; '.if-* sig t. ^2f:  A-'fe- aiarfc ONE INJUREDA^UtUe Rock police officer directs traffic at University Avenue and Berkshire Drive about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday after a Chevrolet S-10 pickup hit a Lit-\ntie Rock School District bus carrying 25 Chicot Elemen-  tary pupils, none of whom was seriously injured. The Aritansaa DTxx3at-Gaz8art)rtd GoOBcheflc taidts driver, Joseph Vanness, was taken to University Hospital, where a sp^esman said he was in critical condition Wednesday night Bus driver Thomas Campbell said he was turning left onto University when the truck broadsided the bus. No charges were filed Wednesday.SATURDAY, JUNE15?1994 Copynght  Little Rock Newspapefs. Inc. Official fears bus vote will bring dire results'' BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Oemocrat-Gazene Education Writer A Little Rock School Board member warned Friday that the decision this week against employing a private company to operate the districts school bus system will have dire consequences. John A. Riggs IV, said he feared the district could be placed into federal court receivership by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright for failing to make a responsible financial decision. The board voted 4-3 Thursday night, with virtually no discussion, against hiring a private bus company for next year. The district goes to court Tuesday for a hearing before Wright on its 1994-95 budget. Wright is presiding in the districts dese^egation lawsuit and is responsible for monitoring the districts budget and its overall compliance with the desegregation plan. The district and other parties in the lawsuit negotiated the settlement plan in 1989. It was approved by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1990. District officials announced last winter that they must make more than $7 million in cuts to balance the 1994-95 budget and avoid an illegal deficit. District strategies for cutting costs next year included privatizing the transportation department at a potential savings of $500,000. The judge is looking to make a case about how the district is squandering its money, Riggs said in a telephone interview and added that the transportation decision could be used as evidence. She could say the board is not responsible and is not looking at where it is spending its money, he said. The court hearings could be ugly. Ri^s said a proposal to hire a national transportation company could save the district about $1 million over three years and provide the district with as many as 128 new buses in the first year of a three-year contract. The district asked transportation companies last spring to bid on taking over all of the bus system except the transportation of special education students. Only Mayflower, Vancom Management Services Inc. of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., responded completely to the proposal. The company, which operates a school bus system in Memphis, said it could do. the job for $6.4 million in the first, year and $7 million the next year. District officials said it would cost them $6.5 million the first year and $7.3 million the second, year to offer the same level of service. Board members Pat Gee, O.G. Jacovelli, Linda Pondexter and Dr. Katherine Mitchell voted to reject the proposal. Board members Riggs, Kevin OMalley and Dorsey Jackson voted against the motion. OMalley said Friday he wasnt sure he wanted time to consider the proposal. He said he and other board members did not get a chance to review the proposal until the board meeting Thursday night. After spending the money to hire a consultant to help find a private company to do the job, he said, the board should have given the proposal more thought.Arkansas Democrat (gazette 1 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1994 School bus catches fire A driver hustled 19 students out a school bus rear emergency door after the vehicles engine caught fire Tuesday morning, police and school officials said. No injuries were reported. The fire, possibly the result of an electrical malfunction, was confined to the engine compartment, a Pulaski County Special School District official said. Bus driver Linda Fisher, 44, of North Little Rock saw smoke wafting out from under the buss hood at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, said i I Emanuel McGhee, district transportation director. Fisher stopped the eastbound bus on the shoulder of Maumelle Boulevard on an Interstate 430 overpass, McGhee said. She examined the engine, then told students to exit, he said.4B  THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 1994 Police beat BY JIM KORDSMEIER Democrat-Gazette Police Reporter Student hit as rock is hurled bus to bus A student riding a Little Rock School District bus Tuesday afternoon threw a rock that sailed through another buss open window and hit a student on the nose, police said. School bus driver Yolanda Strong told police she was driving west on 20th Street when another district bus passed her at Johnson Street, headed east Strong told police someone on the other bus threw a quarter-sized rock that hit Eryn Surrat, 13. The teen-ager told police she wanted to be taken to Arkansas Childrens Hospital to be checked for injuries, police said, though hospital records didnt  show whether she was treated. I THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27,1994 Studentson bus knock window out  IjWe Rock School District bus window out while riding home Tuesday afternoon, police said. Carol Dotson, 23, told police she was driving the bus Lee Street about 4:15 p.m. when shattered a window on the left side of the bus west on as she passed Harrison Street Two men working on the street comer told police that all the students on the bus were in an uproar and someone inside the bus broke the window.Arkansas Democrat C^azettc j SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1994 Brick hits student on LR school bus A teen-age girl threw a brick through a Little Rock School District bus window Friday morning, hitting a student, police said. Bus driver Kim Lockhart, 23, told police she had stopped at her scheduled bus stop at Ma- belvale Pike and Shetland Road about 8:15 a.m. when the teen-ager threw the brick, hitting a 14-year-old passenger. The passenger told police the brick brushed the top of his head without injuring him. He jumped off the back of the bus and asked the girl why she threw the brick at him, then knocked her to the ground, police said. II Arkansas Democrat .^C^azettc | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1994 J* . X^J7*+ Coovright O Uttle Rock Newsoaoers. Inc. School buses to run snow routes as drill Democrat-Gazette Staff The Little Rock School Districts transportation department will run emergency bus routes Thursday in preparation for any severe winter weather. In preparation for the annual one-day drill, school officials distributed to students earlier this month information showing where their bus stops will be on the emergency routes. In running emergency bus routes, drivers generally stay on main roadways and do not travel into neighborhoods as much as they would when running the regular routes.Arkansas Democrat IS? (5azctk WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21.1994 Bus drivers expected to be on job in LRSD Little Rock school bus drivers are expected to report for duty today despite a few sick-out threats after a Tuesday meeting. Drivers met with Russ Mayo, associate superintendent of the Little Rock School District, to discuss absenteeism. Mayo wanted drivers to suggest ways to prevent high absenteeism. Last Friday more than 50 drivers called in sick, but Mayo said that is common this time of year on Fridays when paychecks are issued. About 10 drivers walked out of Tuesdays meeting with Mayo and threatened to call in sick because he failed to address their concerns about the districts management style. But most of the districts 300 drivers are expected to show up for.work, said Neddie Nichols, a former representative of the drivers union, which is no longer recognized by the district. We have a lot of unsatisfied drivers, said Nichols, noting that shes scheduling a meeting with Mary Jane Cheatham, the districts transportation director. * If several drivers call in sick today, Nichols said, it would not be an official action. Z .Theyll be drivers who just want to be heard, she said.Arkansas Democrat   WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1995  LR school bus ambush, robbery tied to gang BY JIM BROOKS Deinocral-Gazells Stall Writer A gunman stopped a Little Rock school bus Monday afternoon and several gang members searched the bu.s for a student, school officials said. When they didn't find who they wanted, they robbed two Central High School students on the bus, then fled, police said. It apparently was motivated by a group of gang-related people looking for someone, Assis- tanl Superintendent Dr. Russell Mayo said. This is the first time I can recall when armed suspects stopped a bu.s and committed multiple robberies, said Lt. Charle.s Holladay, speaking for the Little Rock Police Department. A.s the bus stopped at 17th and Boyce streets about 4 p.m. Monday to let out a student, a man ran into the road, pointed a handgun at the bus driver and threatened to slioot if he tried to drive away, authorities said. They obviously were waiting for the bus to get there, Holladay said. Three unarmed men then boarded the bus while two others walked along outside, trying to find a particular student. Neither investigators nor school district officials would say who the student was or why the group was looking for him. Of the approximately 25 students on the bus, only two were robbed, police said. Robbers took two gold chain necklaces worth about $470 and $56 in cash from the two students, police said. Detectives went to Central High School on Tuesday morning to meet with school security personnel and interview the students who were on the bus. Students identified the ambushers as gang members. See BUS, Page 11A Bus  Continued from Page 1A At this point we have a general idea about the suspects but no names, Sgt. David Ebinger said. Mayo said that late Tuesday afternoon, school authorities had identified one of the men who boarded the bus. Police and school authorities said the robbers apparently were not students and all were above school age. Last year school buses and bus stops were the scenes of numerous crimes. The reports included:  In a February incident, shots were fired at a Pulaski County Special School District bus in the 3000 block of Walker Street.  In March, Little Rock police arrested a 14-year-old boy after a gang-related fight on a Little Police and school authorities said the robbers apparently were not students and all were above school age. Rock school bus.  Also in March, two shotgun blasts were fired near children who had just gotten off a Little Rock school bus on Tedbum Circle.  On Sept. 8 four teen-agers beat a Little Rock girl after she got off her school bus at 13th and Booker streets.  On the same day, police arrested two junior high school students after a gang-related brawl at a Southwest Little Rock bus stop.  Also in September, an 18- year-old Hall High School student leaped from the back door of a moving school bus after a disturbance broke out on the bus.  In December, a man assaulted two J.A. Fair High School students near a bus stop at 26th and Gaines streets. Some Little Rock school buses are equipped with video cameras that are rotated throughout the fleet, school officials said. The bus robbed Monday had no camera on board, Mayo said. There will be one on there today, he said Tuesday.AiLansas Demucratl^($)azdk J SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1995 A M a LRSD again LRSD studies using private buses BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democral Gazetta Educalion Writsr Thp T iftio Rppt r.i Contract this year is Still uiicer- The Little Rock School D.s- object trict is trying again to get out of the transportation business. District administrators earlier this month issued a request for bids from private transportation companies to take over the school bus service used by 14,000 ...HHon-operation. The district district by May 3 would continue to operate bus- ................sewing special education The district put out a similar bid request last year and got responses from four companies. However, a divided Little Rock School Board ultimately rejected the idea of privatizing the Transportation Department. Faced with stagnant revenues and escalating costs. Superintendent Henry Williams and his staff are again recommending privatization as a way to replace the districts aging bus fleet and improve service to See LRSD, page 7B  Conlinued from Page IB students. The change could possibly save the district $l(X),006 next year and $1 million over three years. School board approval of any to putting oul the bid request. Specifically, Ihc flistri ct wants a private company to op erate the 197 regular school buses and llie 67 inagncl school/majorityto-minority transfer student buses  a $6.4 es students. One of the main objections voiced about privatization by some school board members and bu.s drivers i.s the potential impact on the more than 3(X) employees who would no longer work for the district. To ease those fears, the district will require any company lliat accepts the job to agree to employ all current Transportation Department employees and pay Ihcni al least the same base wages and benefits they are now gelling for a.s long a.s they work for Ilie company. Current wages for employees range from $27.90 a day for a driver who drives only one Hie inotniiig and route in evening, to a.s much a,s $57.16 a day for full-time substitute drivers who fill in for absent drivers on regular bus routes. Transportation employees get the same health, dental, disability and life insurance bene- fits received by district teachers. However a private company wouldnt be lied to the district's salary scale for any new employees, according to the proposal for a three year contract. Tlie district will rent its fleet of buses for $1 a year to the company that wins the contract. But the winning company must replace any gasoline-fueled buse.s that are more than 8 years old and any diesel powered bus that is more than 10 years old. The average age of buses in the districts fleet is 6.3 years. In the bid request, district administrators said they want to improve service to students. This past year, district buses were on time picking up and de-  livering students 75 percent of the time. Typically, there is a 9 percent absentee rate for drivers. Employee turnover is 30 to 40 percent a year. Late buses are a focus of parental complaints. The district will penalize any private company for late buses al a rale of $25 per incident. The company would be fined $500 for any bus that is operated that is un fit for service. Any contractor would be required to screen all driver candidates  including administering drug testing and reviewing a criminal background conducted by the Arkansas State Police. The district will reserve the right to deny employment to any driver believed to be unqualified or unfit.WEDNESDAY, MAY 10. 1995 Cooyngm O L-nt Rock Newsoaoers. Inc. -{ Arkansas Democrat ^^azette j Cited at flood barricade, LRSD driver rolls on BY JIM KORDSMEIER Democral-Gazerte Police Reporter A Little Rock School District bus driver cited for child endangerment for running a barricade in a flooded section of Boyle Park was still shuttling students Tuesday. Police stopped Roseanne Simmons, 46, Monday afternoon just before she tried to drive a 1991 International school bus across a high-water spot on Boyle Park Road, police said. cident and will be interviewing The only student on the bus the student. The transportation got out to move the barricade so director (Mary Jane Cheatham) the bus could go through, police. has already talked to the said. Officers stopped the bus driver, Vann said. The driver before it got to the high water should not have stopped and and cited Simmons. She (Simmons) is working to- done that\nit was inappropriate. Simmons could not be day pending the outcome of an reached for comment Tuesday investigation, district spokesman Suellen Vann said Tuesday. We are investigating the in- aftemoon. According to a police report, Simmons stopped the bus she was driving about 4:40 p.m. at a barricade set up in the 2800 block of Boyle Park Road. Nioa- mi Rottmen, 16, got out and moved the barricade out of the way, police said. Police assigned to patrol city parks stopped the bus just short of the flooded area. They called district officials and cited Simmons for running the barricade and for child endangerment Apparently the student only knew one way home and they were taking it She was t^ng the driver how to get there:'I'm not sure if its her normal route, Vann said. The student recently switched to the bus and may have been a new stop for the driver, Vann said. Rottmen told police she is a McClellan High student and that she lives on Dorchester Drive in the John Barrow Addition west of Boyle Park. Streets in Boyle Park are regularly barricaded when waters rise in flood-prone Hoek Creek. A spokesman for the city public works department said barricades in the park were set up Monday before 10 a.m. Police issued a number of citations Monday in Boyle Park for similar traffic violations, Vann said. Lt. John Hutchinson, police spokesman, said he didnt know how many citations were issued. \u0026gt;1-I Arkansas Democrat -^ (gazette | SATURDAY?MAY 2U,^re3n------' -  -  Maa^nenAT* IrW*. no.u* Ma\u0026gt;a\u0026gt;nnr Inn. Bus driver pleads guilty to charges Fined for endangering child, moving barricade on road BY PETER ARONSON Democrat-Gazette Staff Writer A Little Rock School District bus driver pleaded guilty in municipal court Friday to charges of child endangerment and moving a barricade. Little Rock Municipal Court Judge Bill Watt gave the driver, Roseanne Simmons, 46, a 90-day suspended jail sentence and fined her $250 for child endangerment and $110 plus court costs for moving the barricade. Police stopped Simmons on May 8 as she prepared to drive her school bus, with one student aboard, through a flooded section of Boyle Park Road. The McClel- Ian High School student, Nioami - Rottmen, 16, got out of the bus and moved the barricade. Police, who had been obse^- ing the barricaded area and issued several citations there that day, stopped the bus just before it reached the flooded area. Watt said that had Simmons continued, she could have put the bus in jeopardy. We have literally had flashflood problems down there where weve plucked cars out of trees, Watt said. Simmons is no stranger to Watts courtroom. Earlier this year, while driving a school bus, she struck a car and left the scene of the accident Watt said he fined her $110 plus court costs. Watt said Simmons has demonstrated a willful disregard for people and property. The judge added that if Simmons receives another citation while driving a school bus, he would suspend her commercial license and shes gonna walk, shes not gonna drive from court. It pisses me off, quite frankly. I dont like people leaving the scene of an accident, Watt said. For now. Watt said he is satisfied that the Little Rock School Districts transportation department can handle any further disciplinary action.40  FRIDAY. JUNE 9, 1995 Idea to reduce school buses given to board BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Oemocrat'Gazette Educa\u0026amp;on Writer Little Rock School District bus drivers pitched school board members an idea Thursday that drivers believe would save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and eliminate any need for privatizing their department. The drivers, who oppose hiring a company to operate most of the districts transportation department, recommended a plan to reduce the number of buses used daily. Speaking at a special board meeting, Dwayne Holmes, a district driver for eight years, said that enabling each bus to pick up students who live in the same neighborhood but attend different schools would increase ridership on each route and cut the number of buses needed. For example. Holmes said, 24 buses transport an average of 14 students each in west Little Rock to the Carver, Williams, Gibbs and Booker elementary schools. Combining the routes would reduce the number of buses to nine and raise the average number of passengers to 35. he said. Of the total 36 buses assigned to those four schools, combining routes citywide could reduce the number by 15, Holmes said. He estimated that the district could save $1 million for every 25 routes eliminated. Board members asked no questions and took no action on the proposal Thursday night.Arkansas Democrat (Bazcite   WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1995  Transit, fate of schools top agenda BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Oemocrat-Qazette Education Writer Alter months of discussion, the future of two Little Rock elementary schools and the district's transportation department could be decided tonight by the Little Rock School Board at a special meeting at 5:30. The meeting'.s agenda says the proposed 1995-96 budget will be discussed. But board members said Tuesday they expect to vote on closing Badgett and Fair Park elementary schools and on hiring a private company to operate most of the school bus system. Those moves are designed to help the financially strapped district cut expenses for the coming school year. Both proposals have been defeated before. The board deadlocked 3-3 in April on a proposal to close Badgett, in extreme east Little Rock, and Fair Park, in central Little Rock's Hillcrest neighborhood. The schools are among the districts smallest, need renovations and are under-enrolled  Badgett with 177 pupils, Fair Park with 282. Closing them could save $1.1 million next year, district officials have said. But staff and parents of children at the schools have begged the board not to close them, saying their smallness meam\nmore individual attention for pupils. Earlier, board President Linda Pondexter and members Pal Gee and John Riggs IV voted against closing the schools. Katherine Mitchell, T. Kevin OMalley and Judy Magness voted to close. Aller that, a seventh board member, Stephanie Johnson, was appointed to the board. Johnson has declined to say how she might vole. District administrators are expected to make a presentation tonight about school bus services that Laidlaw Transit Inc. could provide. Last year, the board rejected a proposal for privatizing the bus system but let district officials ask for bids from companies again this spring. District bus drivers oppose privatization and have proposed their own changes in the transportation system to cut costs. The Laidlaw proposal would save the district nearly $700,000 next year and $1.4 million over the three-year contract, according to school district officials' summary of the contract provisions. Laidlaw, based in Ontario, Canada, and Cincinnati, Ohio, is the largest transit company in North America. It transports 1.8 million students a day in 40 states provinces. and five Canadian .11 llMWH*l*Arkansas Democrat '^ (Ijjazctte [ THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1995 Vote on closing 2 schools put off The Little Rock School Board wont vote until June 22 on closing two elementary schools next fall and employing a private company to operate its school bus service. Board members were expected to vote at a special meeting Wednesday. In fact, representatives of Laidlaw Transit Inc., the company seeking the job of running the bus system, traveled Wednesday to Little Rock to make a presentation to the board. But district officials said Wednesday afternoon that the meeting had to be postponed because board members had questions about the proposal that required further research by Laidlaw. The companys headquarters are in Cincinnati and Ontario, Canada. Also, board member Katherine Mitchell was out of state Wednesday and couldnt attend the special session. That created the potential for 3-3 tie votes on both the bus service contract and the proposal to close the Badgett and Fair Park elementary schools. In April, Mitchell voted to close the two elementary schools. That motion was defeated with a 3-3 tie. She voted against efforts to privatize the school bus system last year, but the contract proposal is different this year and financial problems are more severe. Both proposals seek to cut district expenses in 1995-96. Closing the two schools would save about $1.1 million. Hiring Laidlaw Transit would save about $700,000 the first year of a three-year contract and about $1.4 million over three years. The board will take up the budget at either their 6 p.m.. regular monthly meeting June 22 or at a special meeting right before that.Aikansas Democrat (gazette TUESDAY, JUNE 20,1995 Privatizing buses a $700,000 saving, LRSD officials say BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democral-GazeWa Edocallon Writer A private company could operate most of the Little Rock School Districts bus service at a savings of $700,000 next year, and of at least $1.4 million over three years, district officials say. At the same time, the contractor could improve service to 12,000 students, upgrade the bus fleet and guarantee 300 drivers and aides their current wages, according to a school administration report. The Little Rock School Board will decide Thursday whether to hire Laidlaw Transit Inc. of Cincinnati and Ontario, Canada, to take over its transportation system for the next three years. If the contract is approved, Laidlaw will provide bus service to most area schools and magnet schools, and to majority-to-niinority transfer students. The board.s vote Thursday could end two years of debate over privatizing the bus system. The vote is scheduled for the day before district officials update U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright on proposed budget cuts for next year Wright enforces school desegregation in the district and must approve budget decisions. A similar privatization proposal was defeated last year, 4-3, without much board discussion. That decision prompted Wright to . with the most seniority would .................. keep their jobs with the district, question the boards reasoning. She urged the district to use its budgeting and planning systems to manage its affairs and keep the community informed about budget proposals. The district would pay the company $6.1 million next year. Laidlaw wouldlease the districts serviceable buses and the transportation facility on Murray Street for $1 each. It also would acquire 39 replacement buses for use in the district for each of the next two years, and 37 buses in the third year of the contract. The bottom line to the community is that the bus system will run more economically and the dollars we save can be used in the classroom,\" said Mary Jane Cheatham, the districts director of transportation. Fred Smith, the districts director of support services, said he had some initial doubts about privatizing but concluded that Laidlaw has the experience and resources to make improvements next year that would take the district up to seven years to duplicate. Smith and Cheatham said Laidlaw can acquire buses and parts at low costs. Laidlaw, the largest student transportation company in North America, can replace 39 buses a year for the district at an annual cost of about $1 million. The district could only acquire 26 buses for the same $1 million. The company also can save money through maintenance, they said. Its preventive maintenance program extends the life of the vehicles, and the company has one mechanic for every 20 buses, compared with the districts ratio of one mechanic for every 39 buses. Bus drivers have opposed privatization and have olTered an alternative plan for saving the district money by combining bus routes. Cheatham said the drivers plan has merit and may be implemented even if Laidlaw gets the contract. Even if bus service is privatized, the 80 drivers and aides which will continue to operate the special education bus service for about 500 students. The remaining district drivers, aides and mechanics are guaranteed jobs with Laidlaw at the same base wages they earn now, plus comparable, but not identical, benefits. The company would conduct criminal background checks and drug tests on drivers. The district can deny employment to people believed unqualified for the job. The school district would have the right to fine the company for buses that are late or early picking up students after the first four weeks of school in September.Arkansas Democrat Sti gazette FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1995  LR schools hand bus keys to private firm - dents in at least 40 states, five Canadian provinces, and such cities as Memphis, MilwaukeCi Gulfport, Miss., and Huntsville, BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer A divided Little Rock School Board voted Thursday to get out of the school bus business by turning over operation of most of its transportation department to a  Related articles 5B U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright at a hearing at 9 a.m. today. Wright monitors district budget decisions to ensure compliance with the districts desegrega- tion plan. Ala. , The agreement mark.s the end of almost two years of debate ovbr privatizing bus service. District bus drivers and the Classroom privale company. Ill a special meeting on budget issues, board membersi also ap-\n\"'lnVthrVa7geZschool Opposed the move despite assur proved closing the small Badgett transportation contractor in ances that the drivers would Be and Fair Park elementaries b merica. The company, guaranteed jobs with the compa\nsave $1.5 million. N headouarters in Burlington,, ny at their current rates of pay The closings and the bus ser- with headquayers ni Bur ing , See BUSK, Page 14A vice ^lan will be presented to Ontario, transpprts 1.8 million st 1 T  The school board voted 4 3 to enter into a contract with Laidlaw Teachers Association yehementiy I Buses trict employees will have a different pay rate that hasnt been an- nounced. .*unceu. i Gary Whitledge, a Laidlaw?* spokesman, said the company* - pays drivers between $7.50 and $10 an hour elsewhere. He said _ _ ----- he anticipated offering some type contract terms, board members of health insurance package for Judy Magness, Dr. Katherine (bose employees. Mitchell, T. Kevin OMalley and fbe contracts features inJohn A. Riggs IV voted for the olude extensive training pro-  Continued from Page lA and with comparable insurance benefits. After a presentation on the three-year, $19.5 million contract, which could save the district as much as $2.3 million. Board members Pat Gee, Stephanie Johnson and Linda Pondexter voted against it Mitchell, who helped defeat a similar contract proposal last year, said Thursday she changed her vote because she knew more about the contract terms this year and felt confident that the employees would not be harmed. I She pointed out that as Laidlaw ' employees, the drivers would be eligible for unemployment compensation during school holidays  a benefit now closed to them. Little Rock is believed to be grams for drivers and children\nmandatory drug testing and criminal background checks for employees, and fees assessed against the company for buses that arrive early or more than 15 minutes late on their routes. Peter Settle, marketing director for the company, said Laidlaw averages about 1.5 accidents per 100,000 miles, compared to Little Rocks rate of 2.8 accidents per 100,000 miles. The company averages eight out-of-service buses per day, compared to 20 in Little Rock. Laidlaw-managed buses the only district in Arkansas to turn over its school bus service to trict. are on time 99 percent of the time, compared to 78 percent of the time for the Little Rock dis- a private company. Laidlaw will lease 235 Little Rock buses for $1 per bus per year. Over three years, the company will add about 115 new or low-mileage snub-nosed diesel buses of its own to the Little Rock The vote to close Badgett and Fair Park elementaries was 4-3 with no discussion. The decision rescinded a board vote in April that allowed the schools to remain open. The schools are among the dis- fleet. The company buy its buses tricts smallest, said Dr. Russ from the AmTran Co. in Conway. Mayo, associate superintendent Laidlaw will also lease the dis- for desegregation. tricts transportation facility on f.................................... ____ .... . Badgetts student attendance Murray Street for $1. 2one in extreme east Little Rock The Little Rock district will become part of the Washing- operate buses only for about 500 Magnet Elementary School special education students out of attendance zone. Badgett stu- a facility on 21st and Barber jg^ts will be assigned to Washstreets. The 80 drivers with the but some will be able to gboose transfers to Clinton Mag- the opportunity to remain with Oakbrooke and Sylvan Hills gtementaries in the Pulaski The Little Rock district will most years of service will have the district and drive those buses. Laidlaw is expected to hire more than 200 drivers, as well as managers, dispatchers and office staff. District employees will be offered jobs first at the same pay and similar benefits, including membership in the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. Drivers and aides will no County Special School District. Fair Parks attendance zone in central Little Rock will be divided among three schools. Pupils living in the Fair Park zone north of Interstate 630 will be assigned longer get one day of sick leave per month but will get incentive pay for perfect attendance. Drivers employed by Laidlaw who are not current Little Rock dis- ementary. to Brady Elementary. Most of the pupils living south of the interstate will be assigned to Franklin Incentive School. Those living in a small area east of Peyton Street will be assigned to McDermott El-2B  WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1995 Pulaski Arkansas Democrat '^(gazette s Hit-and-run 18-wheeler hits LRSD bus, injures 12 on board BYJAKESANDUN Democra-Gazette Staff Writer\nA tractor-trailer rig that smashed into a Little Rock school bus Tuesday morning slightly in- jured 11 children and the bus driver before the rig fled on a downtown interstate. - The unidentified driver didnt ^t away with the hit-and-run. thanks to a man and a woman in a 1991 Honda Prelude who chased the truck from the Roosevelt Road exit on Interstate 30 to the eastbound Interstate 440 exit Ann Vick and her passenger, Willie Harris, both of North Little Rock, returned to the accident scene with the name of the trucking company and the rigs registration and license numbers for police. He looked like he was going to stop, Harris said later from his home. Then the red light changed, and he went right on under it and got on the freeway. Thats when we took off behind him. Vick didnt answer calls made to her home Tuesday, He wasnt thinking about the kids on that bus. There isnt any way someone should do something like that Harris said. Little Rock police will notify two companies named on the truck  Gibson hitemational Truck Co. and D J. International  who can trace the driver, said Terry Hastings, a police spokesman. The truck carried a Texas registration. He was looking at me when I was writing everything down. Harris said of the truck driver. I said I hope hes not going to run over here on us.... He wasnt about to stop or turn around or nothing The Little Rock School District bus was taking 37 children ages 6 to 11 to a summer school program at Washington Magnet Elementary School when the driver, Debbie Barker, exited northbound off 1-30 about 8 a.m. The bus was turning west onto East Roosevelt Road when the 18- wheeler crossed into its lane, with the trailers left side crumpling the right front comer of the yellow school bus, police said. Eleven children who had been sitting on the right side of the bus were taken by ambulances to Arkansas Childrens Hospital with minor injuries. All were treated and released, a hospital spokesman said. Barker. 32. was taken to University Hospital and treated and released before noon, a hospital spokesman said. Everybody on the ri^t side hit the windows. Ukila Witherspoon, 9, said before leaving Childrens with her mother, Yarnell Witherspoon. He was coming at us fast and he hit us. I hit the window, said Ronnie Love, 10, holding an ice pack on his shoulder. It was a diesel (truck). Calvin Tatum. 11. who was also on the bus but escaped injury, went to the emergency room to see Ronnie, his brother, with Karen Greenlee, Washingtons kindergarten through fourth-grade summer school principal. The five-week program ends a week from Thursday. We were getting off the interstate. and the truck came from the side, Calvin said. It tore the front and side off. All that is off. School district officials estimated the damage at a minimum of $1,800. consistent with the police accident reports figure.THURSDAY, JULY 13,1995 FBI hunts owner of rig that hit school bus BY OLIVIER UYTTEBROUCK Democrat-Gazette Police Reporter Investigators searching for the owner of a tractor-trailer that Strack a Little Rock School District bus this week have asked federal officials to help trace a pair of the trucks license numbers jotted down by witnesses. Little Rock police said their initial check showed the rigs Texas registration number didnt exist in the National Crime Information Center, the FBIs nationwide computer data base. Police Wednesday asked the ' information center to search Texas registration records for the number, Little Rock police hit and run investigator Raymond Ferrell said. Police also asked the information center to search registration records in all 50 states for a number on the trailer, he said. Officers hope to learn the trucks owner today. Witnesses said the tractortrailer, which had separate license numbers on its cab and trailer, was marked with the names Gibson International Truck Co. and D.J. International. Neither firm is registered in Arkansas, Ferrell said. The tractor-trailer cut off a Little Rock School District bus with 37 children on board about 8 a.m. Tuesday, striking the bus front right comer. Eleven of the children were treated for minor injuries at Arkansas Childrens Hospital and released. Both vehicles were turning left from Interstate 30 onto Roosevelt Road when they collided. The trucks driver made a second left onto southbound 1-30, then turned east on Interstate 440, police said. Witnesses in a 1991 Honda Prelude chased the truck as far as Bankhead Drive, recording information.[ Arkansas Democrat | MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1995 ' Private bus firm picks up I^SE^ BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer When the yellow school buses roll into the neighborhoods early Monday to pick up Little Rock indents for the first day of school, it wont be business as usual. After two years of debate, this summer the Little Rock School District turned over the operation of a 211-bus fleet to Laidlaw Transit Inc., the largest school bus transportation contractor in North America. The company Edward Streeter, who moved ' , bus drivers will strictly en takes 1.8 million students to and here from Miami to be the new. said, from school in at least 40 states terminal manager, said conver^^.* rripi!d ih , company I and five Canadian provinces. It , See BUSES. Page hS w^^ Buses  Continued from Page 1A sion of the bu.s service has been remarkably smooth. While there is no avoiding the confusion that typ- the district's other buses, feature a studeni continues to misbehave side and roof escape hatches, two- the company will seek a confer- way radios and tlie strobe lights and cnce with the parents before ......crossing arms now required by moving a studeni from the bus ifie.s the first few days of school, slate law. By .lamiary, 50 percent of a last resort. Streeter said he expects to provide the bus fleet will be new as buses Driver supervisors will rou- Little Rock with a system where purchased by the district and the finely drive throughout the city to safe buses run on time, drivers are state will be added. The stale buses monitor buses and will meet with are for magnet school students. principals and assistant princi- Fellow drivers on the morning pals about student discipline 12,000 regular and interdistrict commute may wonder why the They plan to present programs on transfer students. The Little Rock buses operate with their head- discipline and safety to students district will operate a much lights on, and why the buses won't parents and civic groups. The pre- smaller bus service for about 500 make right lurn.s on red traffic trained and students behave. Laidlaw will transport about handicapped students. Streeter alerted all parents, students, teachers, and even fellow rush-hour drivers to some changes in the bus service. For starters, Laidlaw bought 39 ents, teachers and principals will new flat nose buses to be integrat- ed into the Little Rock fleet. The time. Last year, the district reportbuses, made in Conway at a cost j cla.s.se,s 26 percent of the time, r---------------r --------causing classes to be disrupted Winnie the Pooh and has a three-year, $19.5 million- \u0026gt; students to miss instruction. ----- - -  Bus breakdowns and employee absenteeism were blamed. , _ ---------rap music. Laidlaw hired 160 former Little Rock drivers and gave them a system that is expected to save ''\"Thh^vp^^n%'!iiqfr? n r y' the district $2.3 million.  , ahUaw Z 7' 'perience. Some of the former - - I us that IS late drivers are now Laidlaw supeni ' . sors. The firm hired another 80 ^^l^'ng k I ds to be at bu.s drivers at a starting wage of $8 50 in.Q in mintifoe U... ________ r,,. **^*6 wngv UI contract to run the Little Rock JI errrerft^m to ovn/ut^A/l -i The buses that make the rounds today will be Laidlaw- owned or -leased buses. And the . j stop.s 10 minutes before their bus- umformed drivers in yellow d es are scheduled to arrive, polo shirts, dark pants and dark J Streeter said. Bus drivers are inshoes will be Laidlaw employ-\nstmeted to stop at every bus slop ees, even though they may be i - for 30 seconds, then move on if no the same people who drove the\n students board. The buses won't buses last year as Little Rock \u0026gt;J return to pick up students who district employees. '  \"'H \"They have treated u.s real nice, I,ewis said at Laidlaws ------------------------ to belter see children who might buses, Strceler said ........ dis- ''They made sure we had iohs -  Th? buses, larger han oral and then written warnings If she said They sent us cSed letters and called us on the telephone to make sure we knew about the application dates. ,, We will refuse to allow a mi of $2.1 million, will enable drivers nority of students to disrupt the lights  even though the turns are legal. Both measures are designed to keep children safe, Streeter said. Company officials hope parnote that the buses will run on ed that school buses were late to This year, the district will fine i arriving at a school. Misbehaving students will get re- as sentations for students feature an hour. The company i,s still taking applications. All applicants undergo a crime record check and a drug screening. Little Rock drivers opposed privatizing the system, despite guarantees of their same base salaries and benefits. But drivers Connie Lewis and Felicia Smith said last week that they are satisfied, so far, with Laidlaw. tt Lewis said she also appreciates what she believes will be a stronger stand against student misbehavior and that drivers won't retrace their routes to pick up students who missed the bus. Smith said she has no complaints but expects her take home pay to drop. The school district paid drivers for taking on extra routes. Because Laidlaw has changed the workday, it may be harder to earn extra pay. The father of two grown children, Streeter moved to Little Rock this summer from Miami, where he was operations manager for Mayflower Contract Services, a company purchased by Laidlaw. A native of Washington, D.C., Streeter's parents were raised in Crossett and he has relatives there as well as in Pine Bluff and Lake Village. Mike Jones, former operations trict, is the assistant director of the facility for Laidlaw.I I Arkansas Etemocrat^C^azcttc | FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1995 District will return school bus service to some in SWLR BY CYNTHIA HOWELL Democrat-Gazette Education Writer The Little Rock School Board voted late Thursday to restore bus service to some Southwest Little Rock students who lost the service because they were attending schools outside their attendance zones. The decision came at the end of a long meeting dominated by harsh discussion on two subjects\ndistrict bus service and a proposal to hire an Illinois company to manage custodial services in the schools. In a series of votes, the divided board ultimately rejected a pro- portation. adding a bus. John Walker, an attorney for black children in the district, filed a motion Tuesday asking U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright to order the district to continue bus service for students whose transfers help desegregate schools. He asked the judge to deciare the district in contempt of court for reassigning Pulaski Heists students from Southwest Little Rock to other schools while allowing other students to continue to attend the school as long as they provide their own trans- posal to sign a contract with Ser- Several Little Rock School DisviceMaster Management Services trict drivers and parents com- Inc. But only six of the seven plained Thursday about the bus board members were present. service in general and special ed- and the issue could be raised ucation buses in particular. ITie again. More than two dozen district operates the special edu- cheering custodial and mainte- cation buses but turned over nance employees attended the transportation of all other students to a private company this meeting to oppose the contract Board members were to conduct year. The Little Rock drivers com- Superintendent Henry Williams annual evaluation 'Thursday, but plained about the special educa- they delayed _that until a special tion buses need for repairs and said the condition of the buses meeting next 'Thursday. 'The boards decision to restore the Southwest Little Rock bus causes them to be late in picking up children. The drivers also said routes could cost the district some of their routes are more $140,000  ^,000 for each of five than an hour long. buses. But the decision also may Freddie Smith, district manag- head off a federal court hearing er for support services, said the set for 3 p.m. today on the issue. Carolyn Rufus, mother of two district and Laidlaw Transit Inc, are continuing to make adjust- Pulaski Heights Junior High ments in services. More than one- School students, told the board third  163  of Laidlaws 453 she and other parents had to miss routes were revised as of 'Thurs- work or change their work sched- day to accommodate students who registered late or whose address- ules to get their children to and from school this week. She said es changed. More route changes her children were transported by will take effect Tuesday and bus last year, but she learned earlier this month that the service would be discontinued. again two days later. Laidlaw had enough drivers to cover all routes 'Thursday but Rufus children are attending didnt on any one day all of last the school as desegregation transfer students. The district has a policy of transporting students who transfer out of their zones only if the service doesnt require semester. Smith said. The company has four weeks to resolve problems before the district starts fining the company for every morning bus that arrives at school late.1OB  FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1995 Arkansas Democrat (gazette Deadline near for contractor to smooth out LR busing problems BY SHAREESE HAROLD Democrat-Gazette Staff Writer Last-minute schedule changes, students fighting on buses and complaints about children picked up two hours late have Laidlaw Transit Inc. scrambling to keep its word to improve the Little Rock School Districts bus system. Ed Streeter, Laidlaws terminal manager, said hes optimistic that all of the kinks will be worked out before Sept 18, the end of the companys 30-day probation period. At the end of the probation, Laidlaw will be penalized $25 every time a bus is more than 15 minutes late picking up students. In the meantime, west Little Rock resident Bobby Hacker said, his son is the one paying for the problems the district and the company are having. We have an 8-year-old who has been left waiting for a bus each morning that has never come since last Wednesday, said Hacker, whose son Joseph is one of the last students scheduled to be picked up on a Elementary School Dodd route. Hacker and his wife work and are concerned that when the bus fails to pick up their son, Hes just left waiting around wondering how hes going to get to school. The bus company told Hacker the driver of his sons bus quit Thats not our problem, Hacker said. They should be able to get someone to replace drivers who dont show up or who quit The district signed a three- year, $19.5 million contract with Laidlaw during the summer. Officials expect to save $2.3 million by allowing the company to transport about 12,000 regular and interdistrict students. The districts 227 buses travel 454 routes each day. Despite problems with driver absenteeism and with overnight changes in schedules and routes, Streeter said, students fighting on buses may be an even bigger problem. Twelve Mabelvale Junior High students were sent home for fighting on a bus en route to the school Tuesday morning. Three students were arrested on assault charges. Thursday, four more students involved in a fight were sent home. Jim Principal Mabelvale Fullerton will decide whether the students will be allowed to ride the bus again. We have video cameras on some of our buses, Streeter said. .And this Mabelvale group has been having problems since school started. Thursdays fight was caught on video camera. Thatll help us target the troublemakers, Streeter said the company expects to live up to the terms of its contract We have resolved some of those problems, and were working on resolving more, he said.I Arkansas Democrat 7^ (f^azcHc ( SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1995 Williams champions bus service System improving, school chief insists BY JAKE SANDLIN DeniocrB|.GazelIe SlaS Wilier Little Rock Superintendent Dr. Henty Williams on Friday defend ed the private firm mnning the school district's bus system and assured parents that service is improving despite early problems The Little Rock School Board lured I.aidlaw Transit Inc. last June to take over bus service to most district schools, ending almost two years of debate over whether the city's school bus .system should be privatized. However, I.aidlaw's first three weeks have been bumpy. Williams acknowledged receiving about 100 complaints from parents concerning missed stops, late nins, bus breakdowns and high driver absenteeism. But Williams added that many of the complaints were from parents who did rtot know who to call about a problem \"All of the problems that we've had are not Laidlaw problems, he said. \"There have been Little Rock School District problems.\" fhc district still handles bus h ai^portalion for its approximately .100 special education students, IjRidlaw has a tliree-year, $195 million contract with the district Ilie deal is supposed to save the district as much as $2.3 million. Tlie contract also provides a 30-day probation period that ends Sept. 18, stipulating a $25 penalty for every lime a bus is more than 15 minutes late picking up students after tliat date. We're not holding it over their heads,  Williams said. But he added, Our expectations are if they don 't do their job, they have to suffer the consequences.\" Iliree fights on school buses this week helped draw attention to bus problems. Williams said he is aware of five serious incidents on buses during the past three weeks, three fewer than the eight reported in the first two weeks of school last year. Two fights occurred on a Mabel vale Junior High bus this week. That bus now has a district security ofiicer on it, Laidlaw Terminal Manager Ed Streeter said. He said buses identified as problems are followed and monitored closely. more \"We believe that the children are safe, Streeter said. Problems with bus routes have resulted in more than 500 route clianges to better accommodate parents and students, Williams said. Those changes include altering routes for address changes, and moving bus stops from \"comer A to comer B. Our transportation system is improving,\" Williams said. At least one problem Laidlaw has IS new: It hasn't obtained a busines privilege license from Little Rock. The city Revenue Collection Division sent I.aidlaw a letter Friday giving it 10 days to fulfill the requirement it has \"obviously chosen to Ignore or face possible legal action and fines for violating a citv code. re- Streeter said Laidlaw has t check ready to pay for the license. aArkansas Democrat (gazette SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1995 . . Copyright O Lfttki Rndc Newwwwi bw._ School bus drivers dont get paychecks Some Little Rock School District bus drivers finished their routes Friday and left without the paychecks they were anticipating at the end of the day, a school spokesman said. A payroll sheet containing checks for some Laidlaw Transit Inc. employees was either lost or stolen, and company employees worked into the night to figure out the problem. This is Laidlaw's first year as a subcontractor handling bus service for the school district \"Everybody will get paid. district spokesman Suellen Vann said. \"Some of the drivers just decided to leave and come back (today) to pick up their checks. Laidlaws terminal manager, Ed Streeter, was still working at 8:30 p.m. Friday to straighten out the payroll problem. Vann said. Streeter could not be reached for comment.j Arkansas Democrat (gazette TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1995- LRSD buses getting on track Routes continue to change, but complaints about service down BY SUSAN ROTH Democrai-Gazette Education Writer The private company running the Little Rock School Districts bus system steadily continues to improve its service after a rocky start, officials said Monday. We've had no more problems than we usually have, said Mary Jane Cheatham, the districts director of transportation. Private contractor Laidlaw Transit Inc. is an extension of her department. Many parents have complained that buses were late, broke down . interdistrict transfer schools. or never came for their children. Cheatham and Laidlaw officials said the complaints have dropped dramatically in the past week. Monday was the first day for which Laidlaw will be fined for buses that arrive at school more than 15 minutes late or early. The company had a 30-day grace period to get routes in order. Monday afternoon, district officials said they did not yet know of any late buses. One bus was early, but it arrived at school within 15 minutes of its scheduled time. But Cheatham said the driver had missed some students and another driver had to go back and pick them up. But since routes are continuing to change  97 more changes went into effect today and another 30 will occur Thursday, officials said  the district is phasing in the penalties over the next two months. \"rhe first set of buses being held to the 15-minute rule are those serving the schools that are a critical part of the districts desegregation plan: the magnets and Cheatham said those also happen to be the most stable routes, because children tend to stay at thosQ schools. The 80 buses will be monitored daily for the.- next two weeks through reports from each of the schools, Cheatham said. After that, Laidlaw will be able to respond to the reports. 'The company will be fined $25 for every time a bus is more than 15 minutes late or early. Cheatham said her goal is to get students to school on time and to administer the contract in a fair and consistent manner, not necessarily to penalize the bus company. Some problems are their fault and some lie with the district she said. We are looking for long-term solutions. We are sharing information and workii^ out solutions every day, she said. This is not about finger-pointing. Officials didnt have recent reports on bus arrivals, but in the first two weeks of school, 723 out of 2,441 were late. Cheatham said she used last years definition of late in arriving at those figures, not the new 15-minute rule. She said only about 15 percent of the 723 would have resulted in fines. Laidlaw is transporting stur dents under a three-year, $19.5 million contract that is supposed to save the district up to $2.3 million. 'The company serves about 12,000 interdistrict and regular students, while the district retains responsibility for transporting about 500 special education students. Laidlaws 220 buses travel about 450 routes, Cheatham said. About 500 changes have already been made to the routes.Arkansas Democrat 19? (gazette FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1995 LR school bus driver dismissed A Little Rock school bus driver was fired this week for hitting a student, school officials said. Kyan Harris, 23, allegedly hit and cursed a pupil while substituting on the Ish Elemental School route Sept 13, officials said. The childs parent brought authorities a statement signed by other witnesses parents. Laidlaw Transit Co., the private company under contract to the Little Rock School District to run the bus system, suspended Harris without pay the following day pending an investigation. Company officiais completed their investigation a week ago and fired Harris on Monday. Harris drove for the school district last year. Laidlaw hired him Aug. 21 to drive this year. Ed Streeter, terminal manager for Laidlaw, said Harris did not usually drive the Ish route and those kids wouldnt normally come into contact with him.\" Harris had not had any other problems since August, Streeter said.rAikansas DemocraT^^azc^ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, School buses carry tax shock LRSD told it must pay $87,000 on purchase by private operator BY CHRIS REINOLDS Oefnocrat-Qazette Staff Writer The Little Rock School Dis- trict must pay $87,000 in sales\ntax for a private companys new school buses, officials told the more unforeseen costs. I dont want any more sur- nal bid or contract. Smith said. The district hired Laidlaw -  this year in a three-year, $19.5 pnses, Pondexter said, million contract that is supposed school board Thursday night The law exempts school dis- to save up to $2.3 million. The company serves about 12,000 interdistrict and regular students, while the district retricts'from paying sales tax, as tains responsibility for transwell as license and registration porting about 500 special educa- fees. on school buses only if the tion stude^^ _ _ _ district owns the buses, said Freddie Smith, the districts Board President Linda Pon- dexter and board member Pat Gee were surprised and angry at manager of support services. . Laidlaw Transit Inc., the pn- the oversight. You mean we pay the taxes vate company that provides most * actpH of the districts bus service, on their buses. Gee asked olans to buy a total of 150 buses Smith. ir the next three years in the next tnr y experiences we didnt think we had to pay sales tax, Smith said. Pondexter asked district attorneys to review the Laidlaw contract to find if there were any Thirty-nine buses are new this year. Laidlaw has agreed to pay $2,500 for licenses and registration but will not pay the sales tax since it was not in the origi- This was considered up Superintendent Henry Williams suggested that the district ask the sUte Legislature to revise the law so any entity including a private company that owns and operates a school bus would be exempt from state sales tax. Despite the costs, Williams said the district will still save about $570,000 a year using Laidlaw. new Arkansas Democrat ^(^5azellcJ SATURDAY. MARCH 2, 1996 LRSD driver charged in beating of son BY OLIVIER UYTTEBROUCK Democrat-Gazette Police Reporter A Little Rock School District bus driver on probation for a misdemeanor weapon conviction now faces a charge of second-degree batteiy for allegedly hitting his son with an extension cord, police said. , Harold Waj-ne Brown. 35. of 11019 -Mara Lj-nn Road was released on $5,000 bond Friday after pleading innocent to tlie misdemeanor battery charge. Investigators said he grabbed an extension cord and struck his 17- year-old son numerous times on the \"back after the boy returned home from school about 6 p.m. Tuesday. The boy was treated by a school nurse. A Little Rock municipal judge convicted Brown on Aug. 18. 1995. on a misdemeanor charge of cariy- ing a weapon, fined him $901 and placed him on probation for a year. He previously had been convicted of two other misdemeanors  a 1994 charge of loitering for the purpose of narcotics and a 1993 charge of obstruction of governmental operations. The Little Rock School District hired Brown as a school bus driver March 3.1994. a district spokesman said Friday. As a Little Rock driver, he would automatically have qualified to be hired by Laidlaw Transit Co, when the district turned over its school bus operations to the private com- pany in 1995. -Another school bus drivers arI rest in the reported rape of a 16- year-old student last month prompted Laidlaw to pertbrm back^ound checks on as many as 130 drivers. Mike Jones, an employee at Laidlaw's terminal in Little Rock, said Friday that the company had finished the checks on all its drivers. But Jones said he couldn't\ncomment on specific employees  and referred additional questions i to terminal manager Ed Streeter, i Streeter could not be reached  for comment late Friday. | Pulaski Count)- sheriffs deputies arrested Laidlaw driver .Artie Lam- i ont Tucker. 22. on a charge of rape ' Feb. 7.Arkansas Democrat TUESDAY. MARCH 26, 1996 I iHlo Hock Inr Truck rams school bus, sending 10 to hospital Nine schoolchildren and their bus driver were taken to Little Rock hospitals Mondav afternoon after a truck hit their bus while it was stopped on Chicot Road, police said. The children were taken to Arkansas Children's Hospital and Southwest Hospital after the wreck at 3:55 p.m. The southbound bus was stopped on Chicot Road at Shady Grove Lane in Southwest Little Rock when a large flatbed truck driven by William Perez rammed the bus from behind, police said. Perez. 37. of Shannon Hills was cited for following too close, police said. The children and the driver were complaining of neck pain and backaches and were being X- rayed for injuries Monday night, said Suellen Vann, the school districts spokesman. 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