Buy or Lease a Bus ?
Making the decision between leasing and buying for a major purchase can be stressful — especially when that purchase is a bus that has to provide quality, dependable transportation for your company, church or assisted-living community. So which one is the one you should choose?
Unfortunately, the answer to that question is often not an easy [...]
The Paralympic Games
Empowering and Inspiring Athletic Competition
The Paralympic Games, which will be held September 6-17 in Beijing, have a history stretching back more than 60 years.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German-born neurologist living in London, organized a sports competition in 1948 called the Stoke Mandeville Games, which included World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries. Four years [...]
Preventative Bus Maintenance
Your car’s finished. It’s broken down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, and you don’t know what you’re going to do. How will you get to work tomorrow? How will you get the kids to school? How will you get home tonight? Most of us have been in that sort of [...]
Churches & Assisted Living Communities
Serving churches and assisted-living communities is an important part of BusGroup’s business. These two sectors of the marketplace have unique needs – churches need to provide transportation for their members to church gatherings and other events while assisted-living communities need to be able to accommodate residents with various levels of functionality and take them to [...]
Top 10 Bus Maintenance Tips
BusGroup sells buses that are used as church buses, child care buses and assisted living buses. Premier Parts General Manager Steve Wickham provides this list, with comments, of the top 10 preventative maintenance items BusGroup customers should keep up with for their vehicles. [...]
Fuel Saving Tips
Drive Sensibly - Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town. Sensible driving is also safer for you and others, so you may save more than gas money. [...]