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IC Bus provides customers with technology assistance for its propane school bus even as it readies to launch an all-electric school bus next year.


truth is that most people don’t realize how clean diesel now is.” A survey by School Transportation News of 192 district transportation officials na- tionwide regarding maintenance for alternative fuels buses found that the vast majority offered staff training from OEMs and dealers (71 percent) to compliment on-the-job training (76 percent) and training at industry conferences (56 percent). Many also offer classroom (41 percent) and online (67 percent) training. About the same number of respondents said they outsourced more than 75 percent of their alternative fuels maintenance as ones who did more than 75 percent of their alter- native fuels maintenance in-house. Meanwhile, many didn’t identify such training as a pressing need. Only 16 respondents said alternative fuels training is the most important type of training their mechanics request, whereas half the respondents ranked it as the least important type of training requested. Jeff Schwepker, transportation director of Fort Zumwalt School District in Missou- ri, said the district has little need for additional training for mechanics on its propane buses, since they lease the buses and get new ones before the warranties run out. “Our dealer works with us pretty hand in hand,” he said. Randy Arndt, transportation director of Vinton-Shellsburg School District in Iowa, said his staff likewise has had little maintenance training for their seven propane buses, and the buses are sent back to the dealer for any maintenance work. But Arndt said he would like training for emergency repairs and to satisfy his own curiosity. “I’d like to know more about how the whole propane system works,” he said, noting the propane buses are more durable than diesel on the rural district’s largely gravel roads. “I know just enough to be dangerous.” But existing trainings have not been convenient since offerings are often held during the school day, and he relies on the small district’s sole mechanic to cover routes when a driver is sick. “We can’t go to Texas or Florida” for training, he said. “If they had more of these trainings fairly close by, we’d be all over that.” Propane, CNG, gasoline and clean diesel still use internal combustion engines, so


the new training needed to drive and maintain them is much less than it is for electric buses. Still, new software on modern cleaner buses takes getting used to. Maurine Si- mons, a journeyman mechanic at South Kitsap School District near Seattle, noted that


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