| 21-05-2008
In one of the largest fleet purchase deals the US school bus industry has ever seen, First Student, a leader in student transportation and subsidiary of FirstGroup America, has signed an agreement for IC Bus to supply CE Series school buses through 2010, with further options to purchase additional buses through 2012. Including option years, the deal could be worth up to US$1.2 billion.
The first of the buses to be purchased over the next three years is scheduled for delivery this summer from the IC Bus plant in Oklahoma, and will be Type C school buses, also known as "conventional" school buses that are most common in the industry and feature a front-mounted International MaxxForce diesel engine. The new IC Bus buses meet 2007 U.S. emissions standards, making them among the cleanest buses on the road today. In fact, research shows buses that meet the 2007 EPA standard are 60 times cleaner than buses built before 1990.
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