• International Chassis Selection Guide - Regional International has provided us with an ordering guide to make it easier to specify a Condor chassis. The order guide is two pages long; Page 1, and Page 2, along with amplifying comments by Bryan Hickman.

• Ford Price Increase - Ford announces another price increase for 1999 model year chassis effective March 29, 1999.

• The Truth About Engineers - The people who work in the fields of science and technology are not like other people. This can be frustrating to the nontechnical people who have to deal with them. The secret to coping with technology-oriented people is to understand their motivations.

• MSBMA Survey results for 1998. Mid Size Bus Manufactures Association's industry survey for the full year of 1998. The survey is in two parts: the first provides data on Cutaways, Rails, and Low Floors; while the second provides Accessibility, Market, and Sales data.

• FMVSS 215 - Child Restraint Anchorage Systems. On March 5, 1999 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) in the Federal Register (pages 10786 through 10850). This new FMVSS applies to Buses or Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles with a GVWR of 10,000 pounds or less. The new FMVSS is summarized below.

Good Luck, Jim McMullen