The biggest benefits that a bus can bring to senior living facilities are safety, comfort, and cost-effectiveness. Buses are efficient means of group transportation for people across all age groups. Buses offer convenience and comfort to senior living facilities for fun group activities as well as individual medical appointments. All seniors have special needs. This includes accessibility requirements. Hence your bus should be equipped with electronic wheelchair lifts if it has to serve seniors. Buses with wheelchair lifts are popularly used at assisted living facilities, senior centers, adult daycares, Churches and by medical transport centers. Buses that are dedicated to senior transportation should be comfortable and have wider aisles. The bus should also have additional storage space for seniors to store walkers, wheelchairs, canes, oxygen tanks and other medical equipment. If your bus will carry seniors for overnight trips then it should have additional luggage space. If the bus is going to take seniors to shopping trips then the bus should have reasonable and secure space for storing purchases. Wheelchair lifts are an essential feature of buses for organizations that transport seniors. States do not have specific regulations for buses that transport senior passengers. This gives you a wider range of purchasing options. However, any ADA(Americans with Disabilities Act) regulations apply and this should be considered when buying a bus.
Buying new buses for sale for senior transport can be extremely expensive. Most organizations and senior living facilities don't have the budget for a new bus. Moreover, you should buy a new bus if you want to use it for more than 20,000 miles or for more than 5 years. You can hit the 20,000-mile target if you use the bus on a daily basis. But if you use the bus once or twice a week then you will miss this target. The frequency and intensity of usage of senior buses is similar to that of church buses. A Church bus barely adds 5,000 miles on its odometer annually. Hence we can conclude that a senior bus will be used in the same bracket. The burning question is why to buy a new bus if you don't want to use it daily?? New buses for sale can cost upwards of $50,000. Why pay soo much if you don't want to use them for more than 5,000 miles??? Moreover, if you buy a new bus, it will lose 1/4th of its value in the first year to depreciation. That is the depreciation can be up to 33% in the first irrespective of the miles traveled. So your new bus will keep losing value(money) even if it is sitting idle in the shed.
On the other hand, used buses for sale cost almost half the price of new buses. For the price of one new bus for sale, you can easily buy two used buses for sale. Used buses have already gone through the depreciation process hence you do not lose money and get value for every penny you pay. Used buses for sale should be sought if you don't want to use the bus frequently or on a daily basis. In other words, if you want to use the bus for less than 5 years or less than 20,000 miles then you should look for used buses for sale. A fully refurbished and repainted used bus for sale can cost up to $25,000 depending on its age, mileage and seating capacity. When buying used buses for sale always look for buses with low-mileage. Buses with less than 200,000 miles are called as low-mileage. And always go for used buses that are less than 10 years of age. These buses are relatively young and will last a lifetime if maintained properly. It will be worth paying extra dollars if you can get your hands on a bus that has less than 50,000 miles on its odometer. An odometer is not always the best tool to determine the mileage of a used bus. Hence ask to see the hubometer reading to get the appropriate mileage. Also, check the mileage on the engines of the used bus. The life of a diesel engine is up to 500,000 miles. It won't give you major mechanical repairs until is has traveled for more than 100,000 miles. Similarly, the mileage of a gasoline engine is up to 300,000 miles. Always check the history of a bus for any repairs done on it. This will let you determine the exact condition of the used bus. If you have the option to chose from three used buses, first with a small engine, the second with a bigger engine and the third with the biggest engine. Then always go for the used bus with the biggest engine. This bus will keep running even if it is overloaded with passengers and their luggage. A diesel engine bus will be $4,000 to $8,000 more expensive than a gasoline engine bus. However, in the long-term, you will save a lot of money on fuel and maintenance. If possible, always buy a diesel engine bus its worth paying the extra dollars upfront. But the downside is there aren't many experienced technicians that can repair a diesel engine. You will easily find technicians to repair a gasoline engine throughout the USA & Canada. Gas engines are more eco-friendly than diesel engines. Since you want to buy the bus for senior transport, your bus needs to be equipped with an electronic wheelchair lift. Used buses for sale with wheelchair lifts are expensive than those without. And, the price difference can be as high as $5,000 due to the additional electrical and mechanical features.
Always check for rust on the bus and remember it only grows. If the used bus has rust on its critical areas like engine mounts and bus frame then its better to avoid this bus no matter how sweet the deal is. A used bus has clocked thousands of miles over several years and is bound to have some sort of superficial rust on it. However, if the rust is too much then you need to look somewhere else. When inspecting the bus always check from the ground up.
One will never be able to determine the real condition of a used bus by himself or herself. Hence always get a trusted technician along with you when inspecting the bus. If you don't have a technician you can trust. You can a third-party inspection company to do the inspection for you and give a detailed report on paper about the quality and condition of the bus. Always listen to the advice given by the inspection company. Never let your desire to quickly buy a used bus cloud your decision-making process.
One can always buy used buses from private sellers or licensed dealerships. Buying used buses for sale from private sellers can be tricky because your transaction is not protected by state and federal laws. It has been observed that private individuals indulge in deceptive practices like repainting the bus, changing its seats and then listing it as a reconditioned bus for sale. This is not the real meaning and definition of a refurbished bus. Refurbishing is a process that requires checking, inspection, fixing, repairing and replacing more than 1000 parts on the bus. This process increases the life of a used bus and such refurbished buses for sale last a lifetime with most churches and senior living facilities.
Since used buses for sale are affordable, cheaper and you buy them at a lower price than new buses for sale. You end up saving more and paying less for registration fees and insurance premiums. The cost of registering a bus and getting it insured which is compulsory for all vehicles on US & Canadian roads is directly related to the price of the bus. You will have to pay more registration fees and insurance premiums for expensive buses. At the same time, you will have to pay fewer registration fees and insurance premiums for cheaper buses. You have already saved thousands of dollars by buying a used bus for sale even before you could start driving it. Used buses for sale are like an investment. You invest money in a used bus so it can earn profit for you. Its easier to get ROI(returns on investment) with used buses for sale rather than new buses. This is because new buses are expensive, getting your principal amount back and making a profit takes more time. On the contrary, used buses for sale are cheaper, if you use your secondhand bus commercially then you will quickly recover your principal amount and every penny you earn afterward is pure profit a.k.a. gold. This is how you can make money and start a commercial transportation company with used buses for sale. Buying large buses whether new or used can be expensive. Hence it is advisable to start transporting people and especially seniors with used minibusses for sale. Buses dedicated to public transportation are called shuttle buses and their smaller versions are called small buses for sale or short buses for sale. You can easily buy these short, small or mini busses from licensed dealerships. They can cost between $15,000 and $25,000 based on the vehicle's age, mileage, and seating capacity. Usually, these short, small or minibusses have a seating capacity of up to 15 passengers including the driver and can accommodate 2 wheelchair positions. These short buses for sale have up to 5 dual flip seats at the rear end of the bus. This allows the owner to increase or decrease the passenger seats at the same time decreasing or increasing the wheelchair capacity in the buses.
If you don't have the cash available then you can easily avail finance either in-house with the dealership or from third party lenders at attractive interest rates. A reputed used bus dealership will always be able to advise you on financing options and can get you financed even if you have a bad credit history. Once your purchase has been financed you can either pay the dealer by cash, bank wire or Paypal. The dealer will then either get the bus driven to your location of choice or will hire a third-party trailer to get the bus delivered to your doorstep. You will have to pay for shipping charges separately or it will be included in the purchase price of the used bus. The shipping charges are very nominal and can be $2 or $3 per mile, which is the cheapest in the industry. Once registered you can get the bus registered and insured and start driving it right away. Most small buses for sale that carry up to 15 passengers are non-CDL. This implies they do not require a commercial driver's license to operate them. They can be driven with a regular license. So either you can drive the bus or hire any licensed driver to drive the bus for you.
Now, its time to start marketing your services. Start calling up adult daycares, retirement homes, assisted living facilities, senior living centers, and churches and ask if they need help transporting a group of seniors. Tell them about the comfort and luxury features of your bus. Tell them your bus is equipped with an electronic wheelchair lift which makes it ideal for senior transportation. Slowly and steadily you will start attracting clients and with the passage of time, your schedule will be packed. You can then increase your rates and search for better long-term clients. Once your bus is fully booked, now its time to buy another preowned bus to keep up with the increasing demand and increase the fleet of your buses. You can then have several buses in your fleet running at the same time to transport seniors to and from various points in your city.
Major Vehicle Exchange is a licensed and bonded dealership that sells used buses for sale. For more information visit their website and call their owner Mr. Charles Kaufman at 516-333-7483 today!!!!
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