Crown Coach Crown Coach Corporation was founded by Don M. Brockway in 1904 as the “Crown Carriage Company” in Los Angeles, California, eventually moving factory operations to Chino, California in San Bernardino County. Both factories have since been razed. The property in Los Angeles is now a manufacturing center but was once slated…
Jason Leeth’s All American #5 Below is the bus that Jason currently drives for the Washington Court House City School District (Ohio) The bus was delivered on March 15, 2004. It is a 2005 Blue Bird All American FE, 84 passenger. As a sidenote, Jason has THE largest collection of school bus related…
PA Drivers Call to action! It’s Dead In The Water, Folks, PA Unemployment Lives! Until They Decide to try Again, That Is… Pennsylvania school bus drivers – public and private – should be aware that there was a bill in the State House designed to block drivers from collecting unemployment compensation during the…
Ward/Amtran Corporation Ward Corporation D. H. “Dave” Ward founded Ward Body Works in Conway, Arkansas in 1933 when he “lowered the roof of a wooden bus for Mr. Carl Brady of the Southside Schools”. Southside Schools were located about 15 miles north of Conway. Later in the 1930s, the company produced its first all-metal…
I just wanted to say thank you all for 15 wonderful years… As you may or may not know, I began this website in November of 2005 for people to see and learn a little bit of the history of school buses. It has been a labor of love, and even though I am no…
Dave Davis’s All American #22 This is Dave’s bus. He drives this bus on the streets of McCandless every school day. That’s Dave with the bus…It’s his pride! This bus is numbered 22. It’s a newer front engined Blue Bird All American. looks real nice to me. Here’s Dave behind the wheel,…
Training Aids I am putting this page on here with some things that you can watch and perhaps help you to become an even better driver than you already are! The first 4 are Powerpoint presentations that I have created. Hope you enjoy them. Most are geared to Pennsylvania standards, but…
Old Vintage School Bus Ads While I was surfing the web, I came across these old ads and felt that you might enjoy seeing them. If you know of any, please feel free to send them to me by clicking my name… Here we go! Much more to come soon!
Unbelievable! I thought this page would be just to show how NOT to drive a school bus… There will be no names mentioned here, nor districts either, but if you read along, you may find that there are some people who should not be out in public…Every profession has its bad apples……
