City of Kingsport donates two buses to Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department
When the Board of Mayor and Aldermen was recently presented with low potential trade-in values on the 15-year-old buses, Mayor Dennis Phillips suggested checking with
Although far from worn out, state law requires all school buses to be retired at a certain point in their life cycle. Both diesel powered vehicles have about 157,000 miles on them.
Residents of
According to the Sheriffs Department, the two buses will assist in a number of areas, principally in litter pick-up, but also providing an emergency means for public evacuation or mass transportation if a larger number of deputies are need at an incident.
Right now we only have two vans for our day worker program, which means we can only target two areas of the county at one time for litter pickup, Anderson said. The buses will change that and allow us to expand our efforts, so we are excited to be given the opportunity to add these buses to our fleet.
At the same time, we really do have a strong partnership with all of our cities in
At this point, the two buses have been made ready for delivery to the Sheriffs Department at their convenience.