Trans Tech Bus adds dealers for Oregon, Washington
Brattain Bus Sales in Albany, Ore., has been chosen to serve the Type A school bus manufacturer’s customers in the state, while Harlow’s Bus Sales has been added in the state of Washington, along with five other states. In other news, the company announces that its SST/CST model series fully complies with the Colorado Rack and Load Test.
WARWICK, N.Y. — Trans Tech Bus has grown its dealer network with the addition of two new companies.
Brattain Bus Sales in Albany, Ore., has been chosen to serve the state, while Harlow’s Bus Sales has been added in the state of Washington, along with five other states.
“It is not just adding dealers, but adding quality dealers with quality people,” National Sales Manager Brian Barrington said. “We feel we hit a home run with both Harlow’s and Brattain.”
The dealers will offer the full Trans Tech product line of Type A school buses and multi-function school activity buses.
In other news, Trans Tech Bus announced that its SST/CST model series fully complies with the Colorado Rack and Load Test.
“This is just a testament to our engineering and production departments providing safe, reliable Type A school buses,” Barrington said.
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