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It's a fun looking piece of equipment, but it costs at least twice what a ordinary, brand new school bus costs. And as other posters point out, school buses see
by ekidd 5y ago
It's a fun looking piece of equipment, but it costs at least twice what a ordinary, brand new school bus costs. And as other posters point out, school buses see a lot of miles during their lifetimes.
In the northern US, excluding Alaska, I _think_ that most school districts try to keep snow days (cancelations) under 5/year, and the average is lower.
I doubt it would make sense to pay at least twice as much for buses in order to allow schools to open 3 to 5 more days per year. How many districts in the world see enough snow days to make this worthwhile?
- masklinn 5y agoThis looks like a marketing stunt and little more. Places where you'd need to use an off-road school bus, the density would probably be too low for a bus to make sense at all.
- zardo 5y agoCities that would get snow locked often tend to operate a snow plow fleet.
- bagacrap 5y agoAnd a lot of kids don't even take the bus anyway, nor do staff, so I don't see how this helps eliminate snow days, but yeah this is mostly an ad