Bus Maintenance
The Transportation Service department for Pulaski County Schools includes four technicians and one support person. Our technicians have a combined total mechanical experience of one hundred thirty years, with sixty-six years on school buses alone. All of our technicians are state certified bus inspectors and four of the five hold ASE certificates for buses, as well as automotive, medium and heavy trucks. Our goal in the service department is to keep the buses running safely.
The service department is responsible for inspecting 125 buses, 4 cars/vans, as well as servicing 23 other maintenance vehicles. Each month the buses go through a monthly pm inspection at four different levels (A thru D). Inspection A consists of a 111 point inspection and inspection D has a 173 point inspection, B and C inspections fall within this range.
The State Department of Education requires all buses be inspected monthly.
- inspection is done monthly even if the bus has been parked and hasn’t left the lot.
- inspection is done at 6,000 mile intervals; C at 12,000 miles; and D at 24,000 miles.