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Citizen Complaints

September 1st, 2010 0 Comments

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VPSI Local Offices, the VPSI Call Center and the VPSI Home Office sometimes receive calls from other drivers (citizens) or, on a rare occasion, even one of the vanpool passengers. These callers may be reporting  a vehicle operating in a manner that is not indicative of the safe and defensive manner the vast majority of all vanpool drivers practice on a daily basis.
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The Photos From the Road Contest is Back!

August 30th, 2010 0 Comments

ipad3We’re happy to announce the Caption Phase of our Photos From the Road Contest. One lucky participant will win an Apple gift card for a new iPad!

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To view the photos and get started, click here.

For the full contest rules and more information, click here. Good luck!


Burning Rubber

August 27th, 2010 0 Comments

View of a building fire from M-10 in Detroit, Michigan.

View of a building fire from M-10 in Detroit, Michigan.

The above photo was submitted to our Photos Taken From the Road contest. Unfortunately, we couldn’t award everyone an iPad for their photos, but we can feature honorable mentions like this one, submitted by Rob in Detroit, Michigan. He took this photo of the smoke from a burning building last summer traveling on M-10.

For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be featuring some of the top photos submitted to the contest, so be on the lookout for more of our favorite photos from commuters around the country.


VPSI Vanpool Safety Manager to Conduct Session at ACT Conference

August 25th, 2010 0 Comments

On August 30, 2010 Andy Bawden, VPSI’s Vanpool Safety Manager, will co-present a Vanpool Council Session about Safety and Risk Management, along with Aaron Fodge of the Colorado North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Andy Bawden

Andy Bawden

The session will include an interactive discussion of how to respond to a vanpool emergency and how to reduce the risk of a vanpool accident. The session starts at 3:15 PM on the first day of the ACT Conference, held at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort in Indian Wells, CA.

Jon Martz, ACT Immediate Past-President and Vice President of Government Relations for VPSI, is the primary organizer of the ACT Vanpool Summit, and he encourages all members to attend. Andy or Jon can be reached in Troy, MI at 248-597-3500.

For more information about the 2010 ACT International Conference, visit www.actweb.org.


A Texas Morning

August 20th, 2010 0 Comments
Sunrise over Texas

Sunrise over Texas

The above photo was submitted to our Photos Taken From the Road contest. Unfortunately, we couldn’t award everyone an iPad for their photos, but we can feature honorable mentions like the one above, submitted by Marsha in Clear Lake, Texas. Her vanpool meets at 6:40 a.m. and occasionally get what she calls a “breathtaking true Texas Sunrise.”

For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be featuring some of the top photos submitted to the contest, so be on the lookout for more of our favorite photos from commuters around the country.