Fleet Management Industry News

School Bus Fleet - All

• Barker Bus to turn over fleet every 5 years
  

  
  

  The school bus contractor will replace 20% of its fleet with new buses each summer. Don Bickel, interim operations manager, tells SBF that after five years of replacing older buses, the company expects to save nearly $250,000 per year in maintenance costs.
  
  
• School buses get police escorts after rifle threat
  

  
  

  Buses carrying children to and from six Atlanta schools are escorted by police after a man aims a rifle at a bus on Monday. The man flees when witnesses confront him, but police recover the rifle and a notebook filled with bus numbers at the scene.
  
  
• Rotary inground lift designed to reduce vehicle downtime
  

  
  

  Rotary Lift’s EFX90 modular inground lift incorporates three heavy-duty scissor sections to lift vehicles weighing up to 90,000 pounds. The lift includes the company’s patented universal style lifting saddle with flip-up adapters to ease set up, and officials say the lift has an infinite adjustment range.
  
  
• Bus washing made easy
  

  
  

  Today’s systems include features that enable users to maintain a spotless fleet quickly, all while reducing water and energy consumption.

  
  
  
• Blue Bird exhibits at Chinese bus and truck expo
  

  
  

  The company displays its 2012 Vision school bus at the 2012 China Bus, Truck and Component Expo in Beijing this week. In February, Blue Bird participated in the first China International School Bus Development Forum and Exhibition.