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Kevin Bangston, president and CEO of Thomas Built Buses and Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp.
Newsby News/Media ReleaseMay 7, 2024

TBB's Bangston Assumes Leadership Over Freightliner Custom Chassis

Kevin Bangston, the president and CEO of Thomas Built Buses, now also serves in that capacity over Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation. He succeeds Jeff Sather in that role.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseMarch 20, 2024

Virginia EV Bus Program Passes 1.5M Electric Miles

Since the program launched in 2019, it is among the largest utility-led electric school bus initiatives in the United States, with a fleet of more than 135 electric school buses operating in 25 Virginia school districts.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseMarch 13, 2024

Thomas Built Celebrates 1,000th Electric School Bus Delivery

The North Carolina-based bus manufacturer delivered that bus as part of a larger order to Georgia’s Meriwether County School System.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseMarch 5, 2024

Thomas Built Buses Reports Ninth Year with "World Class" Score

The North Carolina-based school bus manufacturer has sustained its high Net Promoter Score (NPS) rating for nearly a decade.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJanuary 18, 2024

Mississippi Selected for Joint Venture Battery Production Site

The partnership formed between Accelera by Cummins, Daimler Truck, and PACCAR plans to bring 2,000 manufacturing jobs to Marshall County.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseOctober 24, 2023

North Carolina Hails Thomas Built Buses as Steward of the Year

Thomas Built received the recognition from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality during the annual Environmental Stewardship Initiative Conference.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseSeptember 26, 2023

Thomas Built Recognizes New Platinum Support Dealers

The dealers are branches of First Truck Centre in British Columbia.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsSeptember 7, 2023

New Joint Venture Forms to Advance U.S. Battery Cell Production

Accelera by Cummins, Daimler Trucks, and PACCAR are joining forces to create a 21-gigawatt hour (GWh) EV battery factory in the United States. If the partnership is approved, production might begin in 2027.

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VideosAugust 29, 2023

School Bus Summer [VIDEO]

Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps top news from schoolbusfleet.com, including the new IC Bus reveal, Proterra's bankruptcy, the SBF dealership survey, and Carina Noble's farewell as president of NSTA.

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Newsby Wes PlattAugust 16, 2023

Thomas Built Expects Little Impact to EV School Bus Production from Proterra Bankruptcy

The school bus manufacturer doesn’t anticipate any disruption to orders of its electric Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley.

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