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matter the setting their driven in. “Te purchase cycle certainly varies from state to state, district to district, province to province,” said Smith. Tomas Built Buses, which as been providing school buses since 1936, operates with one vision: “Build the kind of bus that we want our own children to ride.” Ac- cording to the company’s website, currently, one in three children ride on a bus assembled by Tomas. “In some ways, we lower the total cost of ownership and help extend the life of the bus by offering corrosion protection packages, heavy-duty harnesses and industry leading warranties, in addition to utilizing manufac- turing processes and capabilities that sets the bar for product durability in our industry,” said Smith. Transportation departments continuously evaluate how to make the best economic decisions when either maintain- ing or updating busing fleets. When examining total owner- ship costs over the length of a bus’ lifetime, school districts can establish a clearer idea of price in the long run. Since 2011, Washingtonville Central School District, a system of schools in the southern portion of New York State, has used propane-powered school buses from Blue Bird. While the upfront costs were higher than the purchase price of the traditional diesel buses, Washingtonville CSD was able to recoup the lost revenue through fuel savings. “Environmental reasons were a large part of our decision to purchase propane auto-gas buses, as much as cost savings,” said Paul Nienstadt, the district’s executive director of operations. Routine maintenance costs dropped 30 percent for its alternative fuel buses compared to the district’s diesel buses in addition to the thousands of dollars saved per year on fuel costs.
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