New York State Bus Distributors Association

Association and Industry Facts:

 The New York School Bus Distributors Association represents school bus distributors (dealers) across New York State that sell, service, maintain and support the safest, most reliable and environmentally-friendly school buses in the country.

 New York’s school bus distributors are leading the world in providing zero and near zero school buses to school districts across our state.

 New York’s school bus distributors employ over 800 people statewide and service nearly every school district in the state.

 Bus distributors provide New York school districts and taxpayers with an extremely efficient and cost-effective network to sell and service school buses.

 The public-private partnership between school districts and school bus distributors provides product and technology training and education and also helps save school districts millions of dollars each year.

 School bus distributors are the direct link between customers and manufacturers ensuring school districts and private school bus operators have easy access to maintenance, parts, technical expertise, mechanics, training, and warranty services.

 School bus manufacturers rely on New York’s diverse network of school bus distributors to provide efficient and cost-effective service and support to school districts and private school bus operators.

 School bus distributors also assist school districts with fleet replacement schedules providing information regarding state and federal safety and environmental mandates ensuring school districts maintain the safest and cleanest school buses possible.

 School bus distributors also play a major role in the used school bus market; ensuring school districts are not strapped with the stranded costs and hassles of old school buses by allowing school districts to trade-in old school buses.

 Ever-changing Federal emissions standards, improvements to safety equipment, and the increasingly complex nature of the school bus makes the relationship between school districts and school bus distributors more important than it has ever been. School districts rely on school bus distributors and their professional staff to maintain complex bus systems, and train and educate school technicians on new technologies.

We support near-zero and zero-emissions school buses, David Christopher of NYAPT makes some very good points about the importance of getting electrification right. We cannot experiment on the 2.3 million children who ride our school buses each day.

https://nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-politics/new-york/politics/2022/02/15/electrifying-school-bus-fleet-could-face-roadblocks

Check out NYAPT's legislative and budget agenda. NYSBDA supports these very important initiatives.
https://www.nyapt.org/resources/Documents/2022%20Budget%20and%20Legislative%20Priorities%20.pdf

www.nyapt.org

School bus driver shortage is still a problem...Governor Hochul has proposed lifting the cap on state retirees to help attract and retain needed drivers -- https://www.news10.com/news/could-lifting-the-earning-cap-for-retired-state-workers-help-school-bus-driver-shortage/

Could lifting the earning cap for retired state workers help school bus driver shortage? CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) – As schools continue to shift between remote and in-person learning, one thing, besides COVID, remains consistent: there is just not enough school bus drivers. “…