Thomas Built Buses Zeroes in on 100-Year Celebration
Thomas Built Buses will celebrate 100 years of business in 2016, the company announced at the National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) 41st Annual Summit.
“When Perley A. Thomas started building streetcars at the onset of modern mass transportation in 1916, he clearly had a vision for the future,” said Caley Edgerly, president and CEO of Thomas Built Buses. “And as the marketplace evolved in the 1930s, Thomas evolved with it by launching a new line of school buses and ultimately fulfilling an unmet public need.”
Thomas Built Buses also announced its launch of BusWiseTM Technologies, a robust and customizable technology platform specifically designed for the company’s Saf-T-Liner C2 bus model that combines the latest innovations in safety, efficiency, serviceability and fleet management.
“At Thomas Built Buses our focus is on getting students safely to school every single day in the most dependable and technologically advanced school buses available,” said Edgerly. “Every chapter of our history hallmarks our emphasis on safety, reliability and innovation.”
In 2014, Thomas Built Buses announced the new Saf-T-Liner C2 CNG, slated for production in 2016. And earlier this year, Thomas Built Buses completed an $11.8 million expansion of its Type C manufacturing facilities.
The century-old company currently operates several manufacturing plants in High Point, N.C. producing Type A, C and D buses and Type D chassis, and more than 50 dealers throughout North America provide sales and service.