Trucks, automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles share the roads and highways with school and city buses in communities across the United States.
School bus pioneer Franklin A. “Patch” Patchett was born in San Miguel, California on this date (January 19) in 1881. In 1900, 19-year-old ‘Patch’ landed a job with Benjamin H. Crow pitching hay and gathering wheat in Crows Landing, a small town located in the hub of California’s dairy cream industry. An intelligent and resourceful young man, Patchett...
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