What’s Happening Now
As we prepare for another new school year, new buses are being delivered to the caretakers of the most precious cargo in the world.....our school children. Nesco is proud to be a part of that effort along with every one of you.
NYAPT Summer Conference
New York State's transportation professionals gathered in Albany, New York, in July to celebrate the 78th Anniversary of the yellow school bus. The annual event was highlighted with the trade show and as always, the conference offered an opportunity for learning, comraderie, and fun.
National School Bus Safety Week
National School Bus Safety Week is an active and evolving public education program is an excellent way for everyone - parents, students, teachers, motorists, school bus operators, school administrators, and other interested parties - to join forces and address the importance of school bus safety. Designed to promote school bus safety, school districts throughout the country have been observing a School Bus Safety Week - held during the third week in October each year (NAPT).
Sustainable
Manufacturing
Clean drive, clean built and better for everyone.
Thomas Built Buses is committed to manufacturing vehicles in an environmentally responsible manner and views sustainable manufacturing as a crucial aspect of its corporate vision to be a good community partner, corporate citizen and steward of our cherished natural resources.
Thomas Built Buses, an industry leader in sustainability efforts,
is the first school bus manufacturer to achieve Zero-Waste-to-Landfill operations, an effort that demonstrates the company's commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility.
With our Zero-Waste-to-Landfill operations, solar panels and a growing list of Clean Drive Technologies, Thomas Built has a commitment to sustainability that you can see in our people, our products and our processes.
With buses that are green from the ground up as well as inside and out, we have made Thomas Built Buses the leading sustainable school bus manufacturer. More reasons we are proud to put our children, and yours, on a Thomas Built bus.
Featured Bus
Our featured bus is the Thomas Minotour®.The Minotour® bus offers flexibility without sacrificing safety or features. It truly is a big bus in a compact package – with safety cage body construction, one piece skirt-to-skirt roof bows and internal roof crash rails for rollover protection. As a result, this rugged bus meets all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for school buses.The Minotour® also offers a variety of benefits– from ergonomic driver controls and a Saf-T-Vue window to seating options for up to 30 passengers and easy serviceability. It can be equipped with a wheelchair lift, various seat options and flexible track seating. Put simply, the Thomas Minotour® offers a lot of bus in an efficiently designed package. And that’s huge.