BlueBird Bus Sales
Used BlueBird Bus For Sale, New BlueBird Buses OnlineIf you are in the market for a quality new or used bus, especially a school bus, a BlueBird bus may be your answer. Bluebird buses have been around for a long time and are one of the best bus manufacturers in the business. Bluebirds combine an excellent passenger coach quality with practicallity and an attractive design for your motor coach body. And of course Blue Bird follows in the footsteps of Dr. Frank W. Cyr, father of the yellow school bus.
The BlueBird Motor Coach / Bus Company : Bluebird is certainly one of the most popular names in the bus industry. The Bluebird Corporation offers a wide variety of bus type including;
- Type A School Bus
- Type B School Bus
- Type C School Bus
- Type A Activity Bus
- Type B Activity Bus
- Type C Activity Bus
BlueBird School Bus, BlueBird School Buses For Sale
BlueBird allows for a more tailored bus than most. Offering a wide selection of capacity sizes, engines, fuels, and vehicle sizes you can get the bus that suits your needs the most. Some of the BlueBird school bus models you can find currently being sold :
- The Blue Bird Vision Conventional School Bus
- the All American Rear Engine transit style school bus
- Micro Bird Type A school bus in both single rear wheel as well as dual rear wheel applications
- All American Forward Engine transit style school bus
Popular Blue Bird Bus For Sale Guide To Newly Used Blue Bird Buses For Sale. Covering some popular bus body, model, and types of blue bird motor coaches. Popular models over the years :
- BlueBird Vision School Bus : Popular Years; 2004 Vision School Bus, 2005 BlueBird Vision Bus, 2006 Blue Bird Vision School Bus, 2007 through 2008.
- BlueBird FreightLiner Bus : Freightliner Chassis can be found on bluebird model buses manufactured in many years, 1999 Blue Bird freightliners, 1998 Bluebird Freightliners, 1997 Freightliner Chassis
- Blue Bird Girardin : Popular Ford E-450's, the BlueBird Girardin made for a nice minibus in the late 1990's To 2000's - 1996 Girardin, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Chevy BlueBird School Bus : Some Chevy Blue Bird School Buses are works of art for school buses, an example can be seen here.
- Blue Bird LTC-40 Series : A 1999 BlueBird LTC-40 is a good example of the LTC-40 and is a beautiful motor coach.
- Flatnose School Bus, Blue Bird. A more traditional style, the bluebird flat nose school bus is the yellow bus you know and trust to get you to school each day.
- BlueBird EZ-Loader School Bus : Another Attractive Model, The Blue Bird EZ Loader is another design by Blue Bird for an easier way to load you on the bus.
United States General Services Administration (GSA) contract with Blue Bird. Bluebird also manufacturers some buses for the government, these buses are built to meet the demanding requirements and adapt to their environmental needs while being produced in mass quantities to be very practical buses.
BlueBird Partnerships- The American School Bus Council (ASBC) - The American School Bus Council represents a unified voice of the school...
- The National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) - The National Association for Pupil Transportation, which was created in 1974 and is headquartered in Albany, NY, is a nonprofit organization ...
- National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS) - The School Transportation Supplier Council was formed in 1993 as a permanent standing committee of the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS) with the purpose of promoting safe, efficient school transportation ...
- National School Transportation Assocation (NSTA) - NSTA has been the Washington voice for private contractors, manufacturers, and suppliers for more than 40 years. NSTA’s mission is to provide school transportation ...
Top Product Lines Of BlueBird Bus
- The All American Forward Engine (Type D School Bus)
- The All American Rear Engine (Type D School Bus)
- The Vision (Type C School Bus)
- The Micro Bird (Type A School Bus)
BlueBird Financial Services
Blue Bird Financial Services is an affiliate of the BlueBird corporation. The BBFS aims at providing financing for particular bus buyers such as :
- Public School districts
- Private Schools
- State and Local Governments
- Other Municipal Authorities
- Commercial School Bus Contractors
- The United States Government
Blue Bird Produced CutAway Vans, Type A MB-II and MB-IV which they manufactured in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. A step van with a full sized body named the "Mini Bird" was manufactured until the 1998 Mini Bird, a Type B Bus. A conventional, Type C Coach, the CV-200 was the manufactured as the yellow school bus model until replaced in 2004 by the new Blue Bird Vision school bus. The Blue Bird Transit Buses were the TC1000 ( This bus was built with a short body, a flat floor, with only a front engine.) and the TC2000 (This was built with both long and short body, front and year engine.) produced until 2001 and 2003 respectfully. The commercial line of Blue Bird's were the Ultra LF, Ultra LMB, and Xcel 102 Series Buses. The RV Motorhome Wanderlodge by Blue Bird, still in production today by Complete Coach Works who purchased shortly after the close of Blue Bird Canada in 2007.
Blue Bird entered the commercial public transit bus market in the 1970's and operated 6 plants wordwide.
- The Main Plant Of The Blue Bird Body Company, Located in Fort Valley, Georgia. This plant produced an All American line and many parts for other lines.
- Canadian Plant, Blue Bird Canada Located in Brantford, Ontario.
- Central American Plant For Blue Bird Central America Located in Ecuador.
- Also Blue Bird East Located in Buena Vista, Virginia, a plant that produced Conventional Bus Lines as well as Mini Bird Bus lines.
- Blue Bird Midwest Located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa also produced Conventional lines of buses.
- Blue Bird Wanderlodge Company Located in Fort Valley, Georgia was in charge of the production of The Series of BlueBird Wanderlodge luxury motor homes, bus conversions, entertainers, and wanderlodge coaches. Production of large quantities of Bluebirds in Georgia resulted in many used bluebird school buses in Georgia for sale.
1992 Dawned a new age for Blue Bird as it transitioned from a private family owned company to being led for seven years from 1992 to 1999, by a management led buyout team associated with Merrill Lynch Capital Partners. Also in 1992 Blue Bird introduced the Blue Bird Q-Bus for commercial transit and charter use. Blue Bird East was also closed in 1992. Blue Bird de Mexico in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico opened soon after around 1995. In 1997 Blue Bird began production of the bluebird tc2000 series, the bluebird qbus, bluebird cs, all american, conventional bus lines, bluebird micro bird and the wanderlodge models.
From 1999 to somewhere around 2004 Blue Bird had some financial problems, some of these in no way due directly to their investment in the blue bird corporation. A large portion of the company was own by Volvo during this time. By 2002 Two additional Blue Bird plants had been closed, the Mexico plant as well as Blue Bird Midwest. Sometime during 2004 Blue Bird filed for bankruptcy and was acquired by the Cerberus Capital Management Group.
Come 2007 The Blue Bird Corporation made the choice to do away with all but one product line, the Blue Bird School Bus. Their hope to revitalize their company in its strongest line of coach. The last international plant, Blue Bird Canada was shut down, in addition the Blue Bird Wanderlodge Coach/Bus Series was sold Complete Coach Works bringing to a close blue bird's 4 decade tangent into the recreational vehicle (rv) lines of motor caoch conversion.
Steel Body Blue Bird BusThe first steel bodied blue bird school bus, Blue Bird No. 1, was donated to The Henry Ford recently, in 2008.
Currently we our locating BlueBird buses for sale in specific locations, we are focusing find a bluebird school bus or otherwise in florida, new jersey, pennsylvania, new york, california. Next on the list for bluebird buses are the carolina's, delaware, nevada, texas, arizona, ohio, new england, maine and a few others. We'll keep you updated and add these bluebirds for sale as soon as possible.
The BlueBird WanderLodge
The bluebird wanderlodge is probably one of the most popular RV style buses ever manufactured to this day. Though the bluebird corporation does not manufacturer strictly motorhome style buses or rv's, it is astonishing to me that the wanderlodge models have caught on so much through the years. The reliability of the bluebird bus company surely demostrates itself in the prowess of the bluebird wanderlodge motorhome. I will delve deeper into what the wanderlodge has to offer as well as the various models available and what you can expect to find on the used wanderlodge market today.