BISC West 2025
EVENT DETAILS:
Partner: California Bus Association
Title Sponsor: ABC Companies
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Schedule of Events:
| Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | ||
| Time | Topic | Room |
| 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | Intro & Welcome Sal Caccavale, Martz Group Kevin Fischer, Transportation Charter Services | |
| 8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Session: Why We Train? Driver Coaching Speaker: James Blain, PAX Training Drivers are the life blood of every transportation company. Learn how to avoid turnover by preparing your drivers for what it is like to drive professionally. We will discuss how to inform your new hires, in a positive way, about being away from home, long hours, breakdowns, accidents, upset passengers, being on call, and dealing with family emergencies when on the road, to improve new hire retention. How to make driver on-boarding training changes that can improve fuel mileage down the road. This basic role in motorcoach operations is a must-see for every new safety director. | |
| 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Break | |
| 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Safety Director 101: Using Telematics in Evaluating Driver Performance Speaker: Mike McDonal, Saucon Technologies This session is specially designed for brand new fleet managers, safety directors, transportation professionals and even company owners. This session should help you understand the basics of what goes into a monitoring driver performance, compliance with the hours of service and how to conduct remedial driver training for your existing drivers. After this session, you should be well on your way to being more in control of your operations. | |
| 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Preparing for Depositions – Setting the Backbone of a Successful Defense Speaker: Brian Mills, Snell & Wilmer It is a motorcoach company’s worst nightmare, “the big one”, having an incident involving an injury which ends up going to court for the jury to decide our fate. While some of us may have experienced the litigation process, many have not. Within our companies, associations, maintenance and safety processes, we all strive for “best practices”, to operate in a prudent manner for our passengers. In our various roles, we all have many responsibilities and want to ensure that we practice what we say we are going to do, however what happens if we don’t? But before we get to trial, there is another step in the legal process, many are often unprepared for – depositions and discovery. | |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Lunch | |
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