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Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps recent news headlines from the pupil transportation industry - including the U.S. Senate's push to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
Read More →Highland Electric Fleets and Thomas Built Buses signed a letter of intent allowing Highland to provide electric school bus subscriptions through 2025 at prices that put them at cost parity with diesel.
Read More →The Thomas Built Buses vehicle is just the first for the tribe, which is expected to get at least four more with funds from a Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant award.
Read More →Daoud Chaaya, with parent company Daimler Trucks North America since 2003, now serves as vice president of sales, marketing, service, and dealer operations for the school bus manufacturer.
Read More →The company that started as a Tennessee Blue Bird dealer is now a franchise that sells Thomas Built Buses. For Bucky Law, pupil transportation is in the blood.
Read More →Executive Editor of School Bus Fleet, Wes Platt, recaps some of the latest School Bus Fleet news, including the electric bus roundtable in this episode of The Route.
Read More →Bus manufacturer representatives in a panel discussion at the annual conference of the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services blamed the supply chain crisis for production slowdowns.
Read More →Even in daylight, blind spots around a school bus make it easy to miss nearby passengers. Thanks to new tech, the danger zone can now be detected — and lives saved because of it.
Read More →In the tiny Alaskan town of Tok, Blackard and his wife Sara run a transportation company that includes a Thomas Built Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus that runs even when temperatures fall to -71 degrees Fahrenheit.
Read More →Engineering Manager for Thomas Built Buses, Ken Whisnant, joins The Route to discuss the Saf-T-Zone pedestrian detection system.
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