Family owned and operated, John Leckie, Inc., has six decades of experience serving the student transportation needs of Northern New Jersey clients and passengers. Strongly committed to safety, John Leckie, Inc., maintains a team of highly-trained drivers, dispatchers, and mechanics.
According to the National Safety Council (NSC), buses play a vital role in transporting 25 million students to and from school each day and take the place of 17 million cars that would otherwise be on the road. Statistically, taking a bus remains a safer alternative than walking or riding in the family car to school.
One aspect of the bus riding experience promoted by the NSC is offering passenger lap and shoulder belts as a way of making this travel even safer. In addition, children should be encouraged to remain alert and in their seats at all times, with horseplay kept to a minimum. Students are advised not to hang arms or heads out of windows and to avoid loud noises that could distract the driver. With book bags kept clear from the aisles, passengers should refrain from getting up from their seats until the moving vehicle has come to a full stop.
Operating from Hackensack, New Jersey, John Leckie Inc. is a school bus company that serves students in over 50 towns in Bergen County. For about 59 years, John Leckie Inc. has hired and trained responsible drivers that adhere to a rigorous safety program in order to ensure that the company’s buses are the safest way for students in Bergen County to get to school.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), students who take buses to school are eight times safer than those who ride in a car or walk. This is due, in part, to the fact that school buses are designed for child safety. The bright color, high-back seats, large mirrors, flashing safety lights, and attached stop sign all alert other drivers to the presence of schoolchildren. Additionally, school bus drivers are required to have special safety training, a commercial driver's license (CDL), and certain endorsements that vary by state.
Lap and shoulder seat belts were made available on school buses in 2002 and gained the support of the NHTSA in 2015. Certain states, including New Jersey and New York, require seat belts on school buses.
Family-owned and -operated, John Leckie, Inc. has served the northern New Jersey area for more than 58 years. John Leckie, Inc. is responsible for transporting students to more than 70 schools across the region, relying on a highly maintained fleet of light- and medium-duty buses.New and innovative technologies are increasingly affecting how school buses are monitored, tracked, and repaired. For example, school bus tracking systems offering scheduling, location, and drop-off information are being tested on a wide-scale basis, and new software that utilizes constantly updated mapping data is creating the most efficient school bus routes in an effort to save time and money. Electric buses that can operate from 50 to 100 miles on a single charge are becoming a more affordable, popular alternative due to available grants and subsidies offered by many states to offset the higher upfront costs, and safety sensors that trigger alarms when a child darts in front of or behind the bus are increasingly being adopted.
