School buses qualify for a lot of incentives to go electric, but are the vouchers and grants enough to make a difference when many school districts struggle to keep the vehicles they have road worthy?
OK, so school buses are not hauling the freight we usually write about. But they carry precious cargo — our kids. And statistics show they are 19 times safer than traveling by car.
“If safety’s really important, then let’s buy more brand new buses,” said Matt Essex, regional sales representative for BusWest, a division of Velocity Truck Centers and seller of Thomas Built Buses from Daimler Truck North America (DTNA).
