The Trans Group LLC history

Before then, children simply walked or rode farm wagons and sledges to get to school, and that remained the case for most even after 1886.

In 1892 Wayne Works was commissioned by a school district in Ohio to build a wagon for student transportation purposes.

By 1914, the automotive industry was beginning to boom, and Wayne Works saw a great opportunity to motorize its carriages.

In 1927, a Ford dealership owner named A.L. Luce build the first bus that primarily used steel panels.

In 1930, Wayne Works introduced the first all-steel school bus body with safety glass windows.

But in 1939, three small one-room schools closed, and their 75 students began to take buses to the Martinsburg School.

Students at the Martinsburg School, 1941

In 1950, 7 million children were transported in 115,000 school buses.

During the summer of 1952, the Corr family began operating vans to provide transportation for children attending summer camps.

In 1957, the Corr family was awarded their first school bus contract for Westbury School District in New York.

In late 1960’s crash testing were conducted on school fleets.

In 1962, the Corr family formed the first of The Trans Group companies, Educational Bus Transportation Inc.

In 1964, the Corr family purchased Bornscheuer Bus Company, which at the time was providing transit services for Suffolk County, New York.

In 1970 the school fleets went through major design enhancements, among the basic moderations were using amber lights to indicate the alighting and descending of children from the school buses.

By 1974, all school buses in the United States were painted "school bus glossy yellow."

These standards are still in use as of 2018 school bus manufacturing. Based on the new modifications “The School Bus Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards” had to change the standard requirements of a school bus and these changes went on effect in 1977.

It is subject to the same rules one might find in the classroom, including the dictates of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and a host of laws and rules governing disabled or special needs pupils.

School buses manufactured after 1992 have even more critical safety equipment such as additional emergency exits, better mirrors for the driver to be able to see around the bus, and swing-out stop arms to alert motorists that children are getting on or off the bus.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DIRECTORS of PUPIL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. 1994.

In August 1998 at a public hearing held by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), five international experts in the field of motor vehicle occupant crash protection expressed their concern about the appropriateness of lap belts in providing crash protection to small children.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DIRECTORS of PUPIL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. 1999.