Drivers honored for safety records
Hal Brook took home the gold, Tammie Moore the silver and Tom Shellenberger the bronze on Aug. 21 when Bailey Coach announced the winners of its motorcoach drivers of the year award. President John W. Bailey presented the awards, saying categories were based on driver safety. Bailey Coach’s insurance company monitors trips via the onboard camera system and measures drivers on several factors.
Homendy named NTSB board member
Jennifer Homendy was sworn in as a board member of the National Transportation Safety Board in a ceremony at the NTSB headquarters, bringing the board to a full slate of five members. The board had operated with only four members for three years—April 2014 to December 2017—and then only three members in 2018 awaiting arrival of its new Vice Chairman in August.
Homendy previously served as Democratic Staff Director of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials. She was extensively involved in the legislative process and led oversight of the investigation of the Enbridge pipeline spill in Michigan and the DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
She recently led a review of the department’s drug and alcohol testing program, identifying several safety gaps. Homendy is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and certified by the National Board on Fire Service Professional Qualifications on Core HazMat Operations and Missions-Specific PPE and Product Control.
Lansing, Mich., party bus owner sentenced
JOHNS – The Lansing State Journal of Michigan has reported that the owner of a party bus company has been sentenced to jail for operating without insurance. Christopher Staggs, 36, was given the maximum sentence of a year in jail on a misdemeanor charge on which he was convicted in June. Staggs made news for stranding dozens of Michigan State University students after police stopped the drivers of the buses they were riding on.
