CONTESTANT REGISTRATION

The 2023 Massachusetts School Bus Driver Safety Competition (STAM Roadeo)

Bristol Community College

777 Elsbree Street

Fall River, MA 02720

LAST DAY TO REGISTER IS APRIL 16, 2023

WE INVITE ALL SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS IN MASSACHUSETTS TO ENTER

THE 2023 MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL BUS DRIVER SAFETY COMPETITION!

SBDI’s can choose to give participating drivers 4 Hours Inservice Training Credit!

 

There will be cash awards of $200, $100, and $50 to the top three winners!!!

SBDI’s can choose to give in-service credit to participants.

The “Roadeo” is a lot of FUN & a great success! Contestants and Judges please invite your families to attend the competition too!

If you’ve never been involved before, please join us this year, we hope to see you there!!! A LIGHT BREAKFAST OF BREADS AND PASTRIES AND A BARBEQUE LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED.

COVID-19: ALL IN ATTENDANCE MUST BE VACCINATED.  Please bring proof of vaccination or a negative test if you have a medical condition or closely held religious belief that prevents vaccination. Those with a valid accommodation for COVID-19 are allowed to provide printed or digital proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR or antigen tests administered by a medical provider within 48 hours of being at any Bristol location.

 We will also present the MASSACHUSETTS SAFE SCHOOL BUS DRIVER AWARDS at the School Bus Driver Safety Competition. We will present each Safe Driver with a Certificate for their number of years of safe driving! Please click here to nominate a safe driver: https://schoolbus.eventsmart.com/?post_type=espresso_events&p=1441&preview=true

Do you qualify to compete?  You qualify to compete if you have had no preventable accidents driving the school bus within the past year. 

How to Prepare to Participate: The Revised Roadeo manual is available in PDF here: Revised Roadeo Manual. Please print the revised Roadeo Manual.  In the manual, you will find all the rules and regulations that govern the competition and a description of prizes and awards.  For those who may not have access to a printer, there are a limited number of manuals available. Please email the STAM office to request one.

As in the past, the Roadeo Competition has the major components of:

• Vehicle (Pre-Trip) Inspection or “Circle Check”

• Written Examination: 50 multiple choice questions based on the General Knowledge and Passenger Endorsement sections of the CDL Manual and general school bus operations in Massachusetts.

• Driving Competition: The individual events in this years’ driving competition will include:  Height Judgement, Riding Judge, Back-Up Test, Curb Line, Stop Line, Diminishing Clearance, Student Loading, Right Turn, Straight Line, Offset Alley, Back-Up Alley and Railroad Crossing.

CAN’T PARTICIATE? please register to volunteer to be a judge here: https://schoolbus.eventsmart.com/?post_type=espresso_events&p=1442&preview=true

PRIZES: 

1st PLACE WINNER RECEIVES AN EXPENSE PAID TRIP!!! TO STAM’s Annual Convention & Trade Show at the Sea Crest Hotel July 23-26, 2023, in Falmouth MA, Cape Cod, Beach Side!

At the Massachusetts Safety Competition, TROPHIES AND CASH PRIZES will be presented to the first, second, and third-place winning drivers as well as to the company or school district they represent. The Carl “Pete” Eastman Memorial Rookie of the Year Trophy is also awarded to the highest scoring first-year contestant. All of these awards make impressive decorative items for offices, while everything is awarded in duplicate so that the individual, as well as the employer, has a permanent symbol of his or her participation.

Directions to Bristol Community College:  Take Route 24 to Exit 5 to President Ave.  Follow signs halfway around rotary.  Turn Right at first light onto Elsbree Street.  BCC is about ½ mile down on right.

 

Registration will begin at 8AM and the competition will begin at 9AM.

CONTESTANTS THAT ARRIVE LATER THAN 8:45AM WILL BE DISQUALIFIED

 

LAST DAY TO REGISTER IS April 2, 2023

If we don’t get enough participation, we will cancel.