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VPSI Home Office Recycling
October 27th, 2010 0 Comments
Photo courtesy of D'Arcy Norman
It’s been a little over one year now since we began a recycling program in the Home Office. Since that time, we have recycled well over three tons of paper, all end of life computers, monitors, fax machines and even a TV. We’ve also recycled scores of spent consumer batteries of all types and various plastic products such as water bottles, plates and cups, etc. Thanks to all home office employees who actively participate in and support the program. In addition to VPSI’s Home Office efforts, did you know: Read More
Citizen Complaints
September 1st, 2010 0 Comments
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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VPSI Vanpool Safety Manager to Conduct Session at ACT Conference
August 25th, 2010 0 CommentsOn 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
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.
VPSI Promotes Safety
June 24th, 2010 0 CommentsVPSI works tirelessly to promote safety and create a safe environment for vanpool drivers, passengers and the many other commuters with whom we share the road. An integral part of VPSI’s risk management program includes ongoing safety promotion efforts. Andy Bawden, a defensive driving instructor of the National Council and VPSI’s Loss Prevention Manager, regularly conducts driver safety awareness meetings in classroom settings at employer locations across the country in support of our safety awareness efforts. He encourages interaction with all attendees and challenges them to keep the safe operation of their vehicles in the forefront of their minds. These safety training meetings are held throughout the US to demonstrate how safe a vanpool vehicle can be when operated by an experienced, alert vanpool driver.
On May 4th, Bawden held one of these training sessions with commuters working at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. The Aerospace safety training event was one of eight such meetings conducted by VPSI in Southern California in May.
NDIA’s Environment, Energy, Security and Sustainability Conference Spotlights Vanpooling
June 18th, 2010 1 Comment
Tracy McConell and Alice Lee-Cook
The National Defense Industrial Association’s Environment, Energy, Security & Sustainability Symposium and Exhibition (E2S2) opened at the Denver Convention Center yesterday and many of the nearly 1,100 attendees flocked to VPSI’s booth to learn more about sustainable transportation solutions like vanpooling. With about 1,100 vanpools in service at 96 military installations around the country, many of the conference attendees were familiar with VPSI’s program but few realized VPSI captured and reported the environmental benefits that result from the program. Mr. Herman Varmall, Environmental Department Head at the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland, observed that collecting and reporting the environmental benefits of the carpools and vanpools commuting to “Pax River” would help support the base’s overarching sustainability goals.
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