Matthews Buses Florida

09/23/2025

Fuel for Thought - Charging AGM Batteries -

04/01/2020

Hillsborough Heroes
See the video below detailing the heroic efforts by Hillsborough County Schools Transportation Department utilizing their fleet of yellow buses and drivers to deliver food to the children of the county. Great to see new Superintendent, Addison Davis, leading the effort! Great work! Everyone at Matthews Bus Alliance and Rifled Air Conditioning Systems are proud to be Essential Businesses supporting the efforts of Hillsborough County in these challenging times.

Hundreds of families across our county picked up FREE breakfast and lunch meals at our 23 school sites this morning. “I think this is a wonderful thing...

03/23/2020

Knights in Shiny Yellow Armour!
3/19/2020

Levy District Schools to the rescue!

"The School Board of Levy County will provide meals at no cost to ALL children 18 years of age and under or to Students with Disabilities 21 years of age or under. This includes ALL children who attend private schools, charter schools, or home schools, children who do not yet attend school, children visiting family members, or children in families that are homeless.

Children must be present to receive meals. The meals are not available or provided to adults. Again, the goal is to feed ALL children......"

Joseph Wain

Coordinator of Transportation

School Board of Levy County

03/23/2020

Levy County Transportation In Action!

03/09/2020

Lake Highland Preparatory School
3/4/2020

Conan Bickford and Craig Holloman accept delivery of one of their new Thomas C2’s from Glenn Matthews and Tim Bevier at the Matthews Bus Alliance headquarters in Orlando. These buses are powered by the Clean and Quiet Detroit DD5 engine. Lake Highland Prep students will stay cool with the RAC Max AC system on these buses. "Thanks for Choosing Matthews" LHP!

03/05/2020

Washington District Celebrates Delivery
02/20/2020

Washington District staff attended the delivery of their latest order of 2020 Thomas C2 Saf-T-Liners for Transportation Specialist Dawn Spooner. The delivery was to the South location in Vernon Florida. The proud staff are left to right:
Steve Rudd, Mechanic; Sam Brady, Mechanic; Michael Israel, Driver; David Hodges, Driver; Grace Roche, Driver/Trainer; Pete Fenderson, MBA Account Manager and Mae Peterson, Monitor, Dawn Spooner, Washington County School District
Transportation Specialist

03/05/2020

Orange County Loves The Bus
2/20/2020

OCPS staff show the love for their Thomas C2’s!
"Thanks for Choosing Matthews OCPS!"

02/19/2020

Auto Reversing Door a New State Contract Option
February 17, 2020
By Whitney Kopanko

HIGH POINT, N.C. - Thomas Built Buses has introduced a new feature for some of its school buses: auto-reversing doors.

The first-of-its-kind feature is available on all versions of Thomas Built Buses’ Saf-T-Liner C2 and allows the front entry doors to reopen automatically if they sense an object or obstruction in the doorway, according to a news release from the school bus manufacturer. In operation, an audible alarm will sound and the doors will automatically reverse motion to return to the fully open position.

"Safety is our number-one priority, and even one incident of a child, backpack, or article of clothing getting caught in the entryway doors is one too many," said Caley Edgerly, president and CEO of Thomas Built Buses. "While this new feature does not replace the need for drivers to be aware at all times, it is one more tool to assist in making sure that school buses remain the safest form of transportation to and from school."

In the event of damage to the stepwell, the auto-reversing door system is equipped with a manual bypass option that will disable the obstruction detection and allow the driver to complete their bus route, according to the school bus manufacturer. Disabling the auto-reverse feature reportedly does not prevent normal operation of the entrance door.

The auto-reversing door feature is now available for order on FL DOE ITB:2020-16.

Story originally published by SchoolBusFleet.com.

02/11/2020

2020 ASBCA "Love The Bus" Event
2/5/2020

Matthews Bus Alliance helped support the American School Bus Council Association, "Love the Bus" gathering held just a few miles from our Orlando location at the Orange County Public Schools, NEW Pine Hills Maintenance garage. We showed our LOVE by putting on one of our famous Hot Dog Lunches for attendees. We also supplied a brand new 2020 Thomas, Saf-T-Liner C2 Demo, powered by the all NEW Detroit Diesel DD5 cleanest and most fuel efficient engine. This bus also showed off Florida’s best working and most reliable NEW Rifled Air Conditioning 3 compressor standard AC System. Kristin Radesca; Sales Coordinator, Brad Hull; Mobile Parts Manager, Glenn Matthews; Owner, Road Techs Marc Allen, David Wilson, William Ferraro, and Trainer, Ali Rampartab were on hand to lend support. Jed Routh; Vice President of Sales and Marketing attended on behalf of Thomas Built Buses. Bill Wenn, Kim Frye, and Morris Frye, are to be commended for hosting ASBCA and all attendees for such a great event at their amazing new Pine Hills facility. Everyone at TEAM Matthews are thankful for being invited to participate in this national "Love the Bus" Event.

02/11/2020

Introducing Mobileye Collision Avoidance & Lane Departure Detection System!

As part of our continuing effort to promote school bus safety and positive driving habits, Matthews Bus Alliance is proud to be the exclusive provider of the Mobileye Collision Avoidance and Lane Departure Detection System for Florida School District Fleets. Check out the link below to watch a video on how this awesome system works!

02/03/2020

Palm Beach County 2020
1/31/2020

Bob Dolan; Matthews Bus Allianc's Business Development Manager, is pictured with Palm Beach County District Schools', Shane Searchwell; Director of Transportation, Carl Boucard; Fleet Director, and PBCS Transportation Team for the delivery of 90 Thomas C2 buses ordered in 2019. "Thanks for Choosing Matthews," again Palm Beach County!

02/03/2020

Clay County Inspection/Open House
1/22/2020

Pictured: Clay County's Dr. Mike Kemp; Director of Operations, Derald Sweatt; Director of Transportation, Chris Dowell; Maintenance Supervisor, Glenn Matthews and Tim BeVier at the Matthews Bus Alliance Open House and their inspection of one of new 100 Thomas C2’s. "Thanks For Choosing Matthews," Clay County!