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IC Corporation

  IC Corporation   In 2000, AmTran introduced the IC, a fully integrated conventional school bus. The first models were badged “AmTran”, although within a short time, the buses were badged “International” with the company taking on the identity “International Truck and Bus” from late 2000 to 2001 model years. For 2002, the company’s name…

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Thomas Built Buses

  Thomas Built Buses   The Beginning The national trend in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s was toward use of personal automobiles rather than riding public transportation. As streetcar ridership decreased, less costly buses were often used in substitution by the companies operating the service. Orders for new streetcars and renovations began…

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Shawns A200

  Shawn’s Bus A200     My old A200 sitting at the beginning of my elementary run, on Robinhood Drive. Check out the raised roof and the odd location for the “bird”.   This is my former bus, A200. It is a 2001 International Bluebird conventional. It is a 78 passenger and it runs extremely…

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Chicken Buses From Overseas

  Chicken Buses   A “chicken bus” is a English name for a colorful modified and decorated US school bus and transit bus that transports goods and people between communities in Honduras and Guatemala. In many cases driven from the Southern US to Guatemala. They are privately owned and are decorated according to the owner/driver’s…

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Training Aids

  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…

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