富尔顿县交通管理局
自豪地为富尔顿县、希克曼县、格雷夫斯县和卡莱尔县提供服务
统计与消息
Two tie for prestigious award
SPECIAL DELIVERY: Santa Claus came to town Thursday, September 5, in the form of five transport drivers from two different companies. There were no reindeer involved, but Fulton County Transit Authority received one Chrysler Voyager low floor van and four Glaval cutaway buses built on Ford bodies. The van came from American Bus and Accessories, Inc. near Cincinnati, Ohio, while the four cutaways were delivered from Tesco Bus, a company located in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio. The drivers were excitedly greeted by members of the FCTA Management Team and other employees. FCTA Certified Mechanic Bill Shoemaker quickly popped the hood on the van, the first vehicle to arrive, to get a quick view of the engine. Executive Director Kevin Kelley, Maintenance Supervisor Chris Brown, and Driver Supervisor Jerry Young took turns checking the vehicles’ bells and whistles, aka lights and back up alarms, to make certain all worked properly. The five vehicles are the first of 22 FCTA is purchasing to replace vehicles that have aged out of the fleet as well as those lost during the December 10, 2021, tornado that hit Mayfield. At that time, FCTA had an office building on South 9th Street where more than a dozen vehicles were parked overnight. FCTA has moved to a new office space at 3414 State Highway 45 North. The agency is in the process of opening that office after leaving an office on East Broadway near downtown Mayfield. Funding for the vehicles was provided by state and federal grant monies.
The new FCTA office in Mayfield is on Highway 45 North off I69.
Agency moves to new office in Mayfield
Fulton County Transit Authority has obtained a new place to call “home” in Mayfield/Graves County.
Following the loss of the agency’s office in the tornado on December 10, 2021, FCTA Drivers had no real place to go for a brief break or eat their lunch in between calls to pick up clients.
In the Spring of 2023, FCTA Executive Director Kevin Kelley helped the agency obtain a new building to serve as an office and break site for Drivers. This building, located at 802 East Broadway in Mayfield, was small but adequate to serve as a place for FCTA employees to break while in the Mayfield area as well as serve as a place for area residents to pick up applications for jobs at the agency.
Recently, Kelley was made aware of a larger building in the area that had a maintenance area in the back of a lobby area and large office area. After doing his homework and getting the approval of the FCTA Board of Directors and the Kentucky Office of Transportation and Delivery, Kelley signed a lease for the building located at 3414 State Highway 45 North.
This 7,500-square-foot building will be able to accommodate the Drivers who work in the Mayfield/Graves County area or are staging in the area to transport clients elsewhere at some point.
The building will be utilized as a place to take a break, eat lunch, complete paperwork, and use restroom facilities as needed. With the large maintenance area that contains nine garage doors, the building will also serve as a place to house FCTA vehicles overnight and allow Drivers assigned to the Mayfield area the opportunity to begin their workday there rather than drive the 25 miles to Fulton to sign in and get their vehicles. It would also prevent them from having to drive back to Fulton at the end of the day to clock out and park their vehicles.
According to Kelley, once the building is fully available for use there will be four vehicles assigned there. Eventually there may be as many as eight vehicles parked inside the maintenance area overnight.
One of the biggest pluses for being able to park the vehicles indoors is the Drivers won’t have to remove ice or frozen frost from the windows upon arrival in the early mornings of the months when Western Kentucky has wintry and/or inclement weather. Garage parking will also give the Drivers a warmer, cooler, or drier place to complete pre-trip paperwork prior to beginning their workday.
The vehicles also won’t be as difficult to warm up in the mornings since they have been parked inside overnight.
Although FCTA has the keys to the building, it will be a few weeks before the agency moves completely into their new “home.” In a meeting on site in the Mayfield area recently, FCTA Managers completed a walk-through of the site and determined all that will have to be done to get it ready for business.
New signage is in the works now and will most likely be one of the first FCTA-related items placed there.
In addition to the new office space, FCTA still maintains its primary office at 302 Eastwood Drive in Fulton. The maintenance building in Fulton will still be utilized to service and repair vehicles that are used by the agency in the other counties served by FCTA.
In all, FCTA proudly serves Fulton, Hickman, Graves, and Carlisle counties.
FCTA 大使是真正的地区财富
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is reminding parents and caregivers that child passengers are best protected in a crash when they are buckled correctly in the right seats for their ages and sizes. Car seats and booster seats have height and weight limits, and children should stay in each seat until they outgrow those limits. NHTSA encourages parents to shift the question from When can I move my child to the next seat? to How long can I safely keep my child in this seat?
And it’s important for all children under 13 to ride in the back seat as air bags are designed for adult passengers in the front seat.
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for children, and the latest research from NHTSA shows that 46% of car seats are misused. Common issues include children being in the wrong type of car seat for their age and size, and car seats being installed improperly — both of which leave children vulnerable to injury in a crash. Every day in 2022, three children 14 and younger were killed in traffic-related crashes and another 429 were injured.
Caregivers don’t want to be overconfident when it comes to child safety. Caregivers need to know for sure that their children are in the right seats and that those seats are installed correctly.”
Parents shouldn’t be in a rush to move their children to the next seat. Kids may think they want to ditch the harness or the booster seat, but they’re not in charge of protecting themselves. Caregivers need to stay firm on car seat safety in order to protect their young passengers.
Keeping a child in the right seat for their age and size can make all the difference in a crash. Of the child passengers killed in crashes in 2022, more than a third (39%) were unrestrained. Car seats have been shown to reduce fatal injury by 71% for infants under 1 year old and by 54% for toddlers 1 to 4 years old in passenger cars.
Infants have the highest rate of car seat use among children who survived fatal crashes in 2022: For those under 1 year old, 93% of those infants were buckled. Once a child outgrows a rear-facing car seat, he or she is ready for a forward-facing car seat with a harness. Something caregivers often overlook on a forward-facing car seat is the tether; this essential component must be used to install a forward-facing car seat correctly. This keeps the seat from moving forward in a crash, preventing head injuries. Only after reaching the maximum height or weight limits of a forward-facing car seat — which takes longer than most parents think — a child should be buckled in a booster seat until tall enough to fit in an adult seat belt properly. Booster seats are a critical — but often misused — step between harnessed car seats and adult seat belts. If the seat belt doesn’t fit a child correctly, it won’t offer them the optimal protection in a crash.
In 2022, the number of children killed in passenger vehicle crashes was highest in the 4 to 7 and 8 to 12 age groups.
National Child Passenger Safety Week will be marked September 15-21. For more information on this important week, please click on this link: Car Seat & Booster Seat Safety, Ratings, Guidelines | NHTSA
Bill Shoemaker (center, left) and Sonny Starr (center, right) were named Employee of the Year at FCTA. Presenting their awards were FCTA Executive Director Kevin Kelley and FCTA Deputy Director Kristin Grooms.
Two tie for top employee award for 2023
近年来，富尔顿县交通管理局首次有两名年度最佳员工获得者。
本月早些时候，FCTA 员工进行的 2023 年奖项投票结果为平局。执行董事凯文·凯利（Kevin Kelley）和助理董事克里斯汀·格鲁姆斯（Kristin Grooms）没有试图确定打破平局的方法，而是决定选出两名获胜者。
2023 年 FCTA 年度最佳员工是机械师 Bill Shoemaker 和驾驶员培训师 Sonny Starr。凯利和格鲁姆斯于 12 月 21 日星期四在富尔顿 FCTA 办公室圣诞晚宴上宣布了舒梅克获胜，而领导二人组则在梅菲尔德 FCTA 办公室圣诞晚宴上宣布了斯塔尔获胜。
舒梅克是一名陆军小子，高中时开始从事车辆工作。尽管舒梅克获得了进入技术学校的奖学金，但他还是选择加入美国海军，在那里他在直升机上工作了八年。退役后，舒梅克在职业生涯的大部分时间里担任机械师，主要为汽车经销商工作。他被评为 Master Tech 12 和 Chrysler Master Tech。
2022 年 11 月 11 日是 Shoemaker 担任 FCTA 机械师的第一天。舒梅克在研究交通车辆时表示，他看到了典型的机械问题。
Shoemaker 在 2023 年 5 月为 FCTA 传输通讯撰写的一篇文章中表示：“这些内容大多是小事，没有任何重复内容。” “我做了很多一般维护工作。”
舒梅克和他的妻子温迪已经结婚两年了。她于今年早些时候开始在 FCTA 从事调度工作。这对夫妇有四个孩子。
虽然舒梅克在 FCTA 工作的时间只有一年多一点，但他表示这是一个很好的经历。他非常感谢其他员工的认可。
“我感谢所有的投票，并希望来年做得更好，”舒梅克说。 “感谢大家的投票。圣诞快乐，新年快乐。”
斯塔尔出生于华盛顿州塔科马，但在俄勒冈州温斯顿长大。他和他的妻子米歇尔有四个孩子——三个女孩和一个男孩。
Starr 于 2022 年 6 月 20 日开始在 FCTA 工作，担任司机。他仍然为该机构开车，同时还担任 FCTA 的驾驶员培训师。目前他已经培训了许多新的 FCTA 车手。
这位西海岸人在成年后从事过多种职业。他管理着一系列广播电台并担任急救人员。他曾担任制片人、电影史学家、报纸专栏作家，并担任美国好莱坞经典节目《斯塔尔与桑尼·斯塔尔对话》的主持人长达14年。
斯塔尔对这个奖项非常感激。
“这让我感到惊讶，”斯塔尔承认。 “我真的没想到。有很多比我更有资格的人。我只能说，我非常感谢能获得这样的荣誉。事实上，这句话来自我的同龄人，具有特殊的意义。太感谢了。我会永远记住这份伟大的荣誉！”