Techs with school bus certification?

Unregistered1 · Jul 11, 2009

Someone was telling me the other day how the seats in harnessed school busses are not designed to sustain crash forces from two directions, therefore if a non-harnessed person was riding in the seat directly behind a harnessed child, the crash forces of the child pulling forward on the seat and the person behind hitting the seat would cause the seat to collapse. I was told that some busses have specially reinforced seats so that this does not happen. Does anyone know which busses are reinforced and which are not? Our center has a 14-passenger bus made by Collins and I would like to know whether or not the seats are reinforced (I really need to just ask my boss for the manual) so I know whether we need to keep non-harnessed people in front. Thus far I've been trying to do so when I'm on the field trip but there are a lot of trips I don't go on and if I had some concrete information I could give my boss and the people who drive the bus, they might do so on other trips.
Thanks!

momtoirs · Jul 13, 2009

The kids in my district use STAR seats, built-in White seats, or BESI vests (similar to E-Z-On).

For the most part, we put all of our restrained kids together on one side of the bus. We leave an open seat behind the last row of restrained kids. The seat mounts for the busses have a tag saying no unrestrained passengers behind restrained passengers.

Tina

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