What is required maintenance for buses/AAVs?
Reference Head Start Transportation Final Rule 45 CFR Sec. 1310.13 Maintenance of Vehicles. Each agency providing transportation services must ensure that vehicles used to provide such services are maintained in safe operating condition at all times. The organization operating the vehicle must establish and implement procedures for: (a) a thorough safety inspection of each vehicle on at least an annual basis through an inspection program licensed or operated by the State; (b) systematic preventive maintenance on such vehicles; and (c) daily pre-trip inspection of the vehicles by the driver. If there are any defects found during a pre-trip inspection or during any other time, these defects need to be corrected. Depending on the type of defect found, would determine whether or not that unit/bus can be used to transport children. If the defect is found to be a major defect, meaning it poses immediate danger to passengers, driver and other motorist, that unit/bus should not be used and it
Reference Head Start Transportation Final Rule 45 CFR Sec. 1310.13 Maintenance of Vehicles. Each agency providing transportation services must ensure that vehicles used to provide such services are maintained in safe operating condition at all times. The organization operating the vehicle must establish and implement procedures for: (a) a thorough safety inspection of each vehicle on at least an annual basis through an inspection program licensed or operated by the State; (b) systematic preventive maintenance on such vehicles; and (c) daily pre-trip inspection of the vehicles by the driver. If there are any defects found during a pre-trip inspection or during any other time, these defects need to be corrected. Depending on the type of defect found, would determine weather or not that unit/bus can be used to transport children. If the defect is found to be a major defect, meaning it poses immediate danger to passengers, driver and other motorist, that unit/bus should not be used and it
