Well, to quote Alice Cooper, "School's out for the summer." Today is the last day. We hope all of the children and their teachers have happy & healthy summers.
In the photo above, taken at Grimsley High School, we see the pride of Guilford County School's (GCS) transportation department, the Thomas Built Saf-T-Liner C2 bus. (Bus number 1377 is a C2). According to their website, Perley A.Thomas founded the business in 1916 and since 1936, they have been producing busses. Today, Thomas Built Busses builds over 15,000 busses a year. Thomas built a $40 million dollar manufacturing facility just down the road from Greensboro in High Point.
The GCS busses and drivers will take a break until they are reunited with their student-riders on August 25, 2009. Parents, if you have not yet filled out a transportation form, you'd better do it now. The deadline has passed which means you aren't guaranteed that your transportation request will be in order by the first day of school.
Readers, do some of you remember the days (as late as the 1970's) when high school students could drive busses in North Carolina? We actually know people who drove a school bus while in high school! My how times have changed.
5 yr old Jimmy saw a white school bus ...I didn't notice.
Posted by: June | Monday, June 15, 2009 at 08:20 AM
I love American school buses, thank you!
Posted by: cieldequimper | Monday, June 15, 2009 at 01:34 PM
I drove a bus in high school from 1986 to '88.
Posted by: Dan | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 10:49 AM