New York State Bus Distributors Association

School bus distributors are leading the way in providing zero and near-zero emission school buses to school districts and private school bus operators across our state.

About NYSBDA

The New York State 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 emission school buses to school districts and private school bus operators across our state.

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

Public-Private Partnership

The unique public-private partnership between school districts and school bus distributors is essential to the safety and success of New York’s massive school transportation system which provides transportation to over 2.3 million children.

School bus distributors provide invaluable support to our school districts in the form of service and repair facilities, fleet planning, parts inventory, hands-on vehicle and technology training, and free education programs.

This public-private partnership saves local taxpayers millions of dollars each year and ensures New York’s school transportation system operates the safest and most environmentally friendly school buses in the country.

Ever-changing Federal and state 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.

Industry Facts

  • School buses maximize the likelihood that school children will arrive at school safely, on time and ready to learn.
  • School buses transport over 26 million of the 50 million students who attend school each day.
  • One school bus can carry the same number of passengers as 36 cars.
  • School buses save approximately 62 billion miles of driving each year.
  • School buses provide a convenience to families while saving them time and money.
  • Since the first school bus designed to accommodate wheelchairs was built in 1957, the school bus has transported millions of special-needs students to and from school.
  • School buses reduce traffic by keeping over 17 million cars off roads each year.
  • Students are about 70 times more likely to get to school safely if they take the school bus instead of traveling by car.
  • School buses save approximately 2.6 billion gallons of fuel each year.
  • The school bus industry provides millions of jobs each year.
  • School buses prevent over 20 million tons of CO2 from being released into the environment each year. This is the consumption equivalent of about 330,000 tanker trucks of gasoline.
  • Cutting school bus service can result in more traffic and higher concentrations of pollution.
  • Due to Environmental Protection Agency standards, school buses run cleaner than ever before.
  • School buses can be used to transport students and faculty to extra-curricular activities and be dispatched quickly to evacuate students in an emergency.

Membership

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

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

The relationship between school districts and school bus distributors is one of New York’s most successful public-private partnership.

Peter Tunny, Executive Director, NYSBDA

(518) 414-1528
pt*******@gm***.com

Member Companies

Allegiance Trucks
Factory Direct Bus
Gorman Enterprises
Leonard Bus Sales
Matthews Buses
New York Bus Sales
Nesco Bus Sales

Our Board of Directors

Robert Marmorale
Allegiance Trucks

Eric Marello
Allegiance Trucks

Robert Reichenbach
Factory Direct Bus, President

Jon Leonard
Leonard Bus Sales, Treasurer

Frank Continetti
Leonard Bus Sales

Mark Hanrahan
Matthews Buses, Inc.

Aaron Morrow
Matthews Buses, Inc.

Sean Finnerty
NY Bus Sales, LLC

Anthony Zaragoza
Nesco Bus Sales, Vice President

School Bus Safety

According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the number of fatalities of school age children traveling to and from school per 100 million vehicle miles traveled is 70 times higher in passenger vehicles than in school buses.

Students are significantly safer riding to and from school in a school bus than walking, riding bikes, driving to school, or even riding in the family car.

The New York State Bus Distributors Association is committed to ensuring schools have the safest, most reliable, and environmentally friendly school buses on the road.

Operation Safe Stop

Operation Safe Stop is a national initiative which raises awareness about the importance of stopping when you see stopped school bus with its red lights flashing. It is also a day when school districts, private school bus operators, community groups, local police departments across the state work together during a statewide enforcement effort.

The New York Association for Pupil Transportation estimates that on a typical school day, over 50,000 private vehicles illegally pass stopped school buses with their red lights flashing.  Each incident puts school children at risk of injury.  It is important to stay alert and stop when you see a stopped school bus with its red lights flashing — child’s life depends on it.

Operation Safe Stop helps to educate drivers that passing a stopped school bus is dangerous and illegal.

 

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