Albemarle County (Va.) Public Schools conducted the pilot with extended stop arms on school buses in May and June.
The kits are tailored for the supplier’s inground scissor and piston lifts. They are designed to offer more efficient lifting by engaging the front and rear lifting points on vehicles.
Thomas Built Buses is now accepting orders for school buses equipped with the Detroit DD5, adapted for the Saf-T-Liner C2, and the DD8, adapted for the Saf-T-Liner HDX.
Tracy Weatherfield will provide infrastructure development and manufacturing solutions at InterMotive, which supplies electronic control systems for commercial vehicles.
Juliette Washington is named the 2018 bus driver of the year by the Beaufort County (S.C.) School District and by the South Carolina Association for Pupil Transportation.
A 3-year-old boy in Texas is found unresponsive after being left in a daycare bus, where the temperature reaches 113 degrees, for about four hours. He is taken to the hospital where he is declared dead.
The company offers to buy districts’ and contractors’ old vehicles and then lease them a fleet of new vehicles.