The Covid-19 pandemic has been impacting on schools around the globe in many negative ways. However, it is not just schools trying to deal with the impact of the virus other related industries are also suffering as highlighted in this article from the New York Times about the problems for the school bus industry.
One company in New York furloughed nearly all 32 staff members thinking their 20 buses would soon be back to work. All told, the company has lost $750,000 because of the pandemic, a critical blow for the business, which averages $2 million a year in revenue.
Now, the owner worries that when schools are able to reopen fully, his company may not be there to take children to class.
Privately owned bus companies, which carry nearly 10 million children to school a year, account for roughly 40 percent of the school bus industry — and now are facing an unparalleled threat to their survival.
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