Re: What was the first school bus and what brand

Posted by wisbaker on August 23, 2014 at 22:37:33 from (173.30.33.15):

In Reply to: What was the first school bus and what brand posted by fixerupper on August 23, 2014 at 20:07:46:

Don't know- I rode a bus to school in kindergarten and 1st grade and was to young to know. Don't even
know if it was a district bus or contract. We moved just before I started 2nd grade and our house was on
a block adjacent to the school. In grade school the only folks that rode school buses were from the Fort
and they all rode Green Army buses, with yellow school bus signs on them that were hinged in the
middle so they could fold them over and use them for army stuff. I remember one of those buses was a 46
Dodge but their newer buses were flat nosed buses so it was hard to tell who made them or what powered
them. Still walked to school through Junior High but we moved to a farm just before I started High School
and our bus was a 1967 International Harvester but I don't remember who built the coach.

As a freshman in High School both my Mom & Dad were substitute school bus drivers. Dad eventually got an
over the road job and Mom a regular route. My Mom's route had a deficient bridge on it, if she ran the
route wrong any one on the bus had to get off and walk across the bridge, she'd drive the bus over then
they could get back on. Eventually some drunk hit the bridge with his pick up so her route got really
long until a new bridge was put up. The school district's oldest bus was a 1962 GMC with the V6 in it.
Our district had a lot of bus problems, one year the state inspector redlined 10 of the 13 buses they
had, but they went ahead and used them anyway. The next year the state got serious and redlined most of
their buses and made them borrow or rent replacements until they fixed theirs. We got a new bus mechanic
after that. The old bus mechanic fixed buses, did custodial work and drove our route, the new guy did
buses only but a least the buses passed state inspection after that.

I remember most of the buses were IH with the one GMC and a Chevy or two. They bought 3 Fords when I was
a sophomore which was surprising because the old bus mechanic didn't like any Fords newer that a model A.
For the most part I think they had 5 speed manual transmissions a creeper and 4 regular gears. We took
one of the Ford buses on an FFA field trip topped out it ran about 48 miles an hour. I remember one field
trip my mom drove in her IH, it was all high school students and the bus was full, she was never able to
get going fast enough to shift out of 4th gear and we did have about 5 miles on a highway.

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