quieter. Tat will help with some of our special needs children.” Te order of 63 IC CE Series
Propane buses comprised one of the manufacturer’s very first after completing the initial production run that spring. Tuscaloosa received the first 14 buses for the 2015- 2016 school year. Debbie Sanford, vice president of bus operations for Southland International, recalled Tuscaloosa City CFO Ed LaVigne scheduling a conference call with the dealership, IC Bus and engine and fuel system provider PSI to ask them to make a commitment. She said he recognized that intro- ducing a new product would surely result in the need to address some minor issues. “He just needed to know the
commitment was going to be there,” she added. IC Bus VP and GM Trish Reed
answered the bell and dedicated “boots on the ground” to stand by the district “and that we’d be there as long as they needed us to be there,” Sanford said. As a result, engineers from IC Bus and technicians and support staff from Southland “practically moved in” with the district’s maintenance staff over the ensuing months, Staggs said, who replaced the retiring Boone in December. Reed told STN it was an honor for IC Bus to stand by the district. “IC Bus stands behind its
products and we make every effort to help our customers achieve the highest degree of satisfaction with
their buses,” Reed said. “In addition, our IC Bus dealers do an extraordi- nary job in supporting our custom- ers before, during and after a sale as demonstrated in Tuscaloosa by our dealer Southland International.” As the team addressed necessary
tweaks to the fuel system and fuel door switch to prevent the bus from
This fall, Tuscaloosa’s propane buses will represent more than half the total fleet size.
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