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TPS School Buses
From left: Toledo City Schools bus #596, #595, & #594. Bus #596 & #594 were 1980 International chassis that were rebuilt and had 1992 Carpenter bodies placed on them. The middle bus (#595) is a 1980 International chassis that had a 1994 Wayne body placed on it. Orignally these were gasoline buses and they were converted to diesel when they were rebuilt. In total about 30 buses were rebuilt in this program which was managed and conducted in house. The old body was scrapped and the chassis was rebuilt at the TPS garage. Then the rebuilt chassis was towed to a body upfitter to have the new body put on. This saved the district considerable money and enabled them to purchase a number of new buses in this period that otherwise would not have been able to be purchased. A number of the rebodied buses remained in service until 2010 a full thirty years after the initial bus was built.
TPS School Buses
From left: Toledo City Schools bus #596, #595, & #594. Bus #596 & #594 were 1980 International chassis that were rebuilt and had 1992 Carpenter bodies placed on them. The middle bus (#595) is a 1980 International chassis that had a 1994 Wayne body placed on it. Orignally these were gasoline buses and they were converted to diesel when they were rebuilt. In total about 30 buses were rebuilt in this program which was managed and conducted in house. The old body was scrapped and the chassis was rebuilt at the TPS garage. Then the rebuilt chassis was towed to a body upfitter to have the new body put on. This saved the district considerable money and enabled them to purchase a number of new buses in this period that otherwise would not have been able to be purchased. A number of the rebodied buses remained in service until 2010 a full thirty years after the initial bus was built.