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Trans Tech is the first school bus manufacturer to produce a fully electric school bus (eTrans, based on the Smith Electric Newton). Van-Con, Inc. Type A Type B 1973 Middlesex, New Jersey: Van-Con, Inc. is New Jersey's only school bus manufacturer. Van-Con, Inc produces 16, 25, 30 passenger and wheelchair accessible school buses.
The school bus body was designed to fit on a Chevrolet, Ford, or GMC chassis. [2] One of the first examples produced with a cutaway van chassis, the Busette mated a purpose-built school bus body with a dual rear-wheel van chassis. In North America, this configuration is now preferred by manufacturers for many other types of minibuses in ...
First Student, Inc. is a North American provider of school bus services. The company works with districts in 38 states and 7 Canadian provinces, carrying approximately 5 million students daily. [1] In addition to its regular routes, First Student also provides special-needs transportation, field trip services, and charter bus rentals.
Laidlaw (/ ˈ l eɪ d ˌ l ɔː /), organized as Laidlaw International, Inc. (with corporate headquarters in Naperville, Illinois) was the largest provider of intercity bus services, contract public transit and paratransit, and contract school bus service in both the United States and Canada.
The school buses in South Korea are basically directly converted from commercial vehicles. Among them are the modern Hyundai Starex and Staria, Kia Carnival, Ssangyong Korando Turismo, with the larger vehicles being Hyundai Universe, Kia Granbird, Daewoo FX and so on. These school buses are all painted in yellow and add with headlights.
Durham School Services is a school bus operator providing contracted student transportation throughout the United States, based in Lisle, Illinois, and currently operating in 32 states. Founded in 1917 with three buses in the San Gabriel Valley , it became a subsidiary of Mobico Group , formerly National Express Group, in 1999. [ 1 ]
Since producing its first school bus in 1936, virtually all Thomas school bus bodies had been produced in the "conventional" style: a body mated to a cowled truck chassis. [citation needed] While the design was the most popular configuration, the transit-style configuration allowed for a higher passenger capacity (up to 90 passengers). In the ...
As of 2010, the Carrollton bus disaster remained one of the two worst bus accidents in U.S. history. The accident and the legal battle afterward were recounted in a 1994 book by James S. Kuen. Reckless Disregard: Corporate Greed, Government Indifference, and the Kentucky School Bus Crash was published by Simon & Schuster of New York City.