INDUSTRY CONNECTION Industry Te Blue Bird Propane-Powered Vi-
sion has experienced tremendous growth across North America, according to the school bus manufacturer. Since its intro- duction in 2007, more than 1,000 propane Visions are transporting children across the United States and Canada. Denton Independent School District (Texas) cur-
rently has 44 of the buses in operation and was scheduled to receive seven additional buses last month. Blue Bird also recently expanded its propane offering with the introduction of the Propane-Powered Mi- cro Bird. Te Propane-Powered Micro Bird Type A is also currently available to order but not yet in production.
Meanwhile, Collins Bus said its propane
Type A NexBus received federal certication and is currently in production.
Gray Manufacturing Company, Inc.,
and Vehicle Service Group, LLC entered into a patent license agreement for Wire- less Coordinated Lift Systems or Wireless Mobile Column Lifts. Terms remained con- fidential, but the agreement does allows VSG to produce, use, and sell the systems protected under U.S. and Canadian patents acquired by Gray.
IMMI has now supplied Premier seats
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to Greyhound for 213 new motorcoaches manufactured by Prevost and MCI. Twen- ty percent of the Greyhound fleet is now equipped with lap-shoulder belts, bringing its parent company, FirstGroup, closer to its goal of equipping the entire fleet within the next five years. First added that it is working to address one of five federal high- way safety priorities on the NTSB Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Im- provements for 2010.
IMMI also recently won a contract to
supply seats in 280 buses serving the San Bernardino (Calif.) School District. Tis summer the district’s contract carrier, National Express, purchased an entirely new fleet of Tomas Built Buses to ser- vice the school district, equipped with the SafeGuard FlexSeat. Buses will be placed in service beginning this fall.
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Rotary Lift vehicle lifts have been add-
ed to the list of products subject to Buy America requirements. Last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act specifically define vehicle lifts as “manufactured end products” governed by the Buy America requirements. All iron, steel and manufac- tured products used in projects receiving Federal Transit Administration money must be produced in the United States.
A-Z Bus Sales, Inc., announced deliv-
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ery of 30 new CNG Blue Bird buses to the Fresno (Calif.) Unified School District. Te Blue Bird All American CNG buses were purchased through A-Z Bus Sales and re- place 1977 model-year diesel buses from Crown and 1978 model-year diesel buses
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