Dean School Bus

Dean Transportation, in partnership with its employees, is consistently looking for ways to improve its eco-friendly practices. Dean has implemented a 5-year “Go Green” plan to enhance the companies green practices. Green Practices include some of the following:

• A campaign to educate its drivers on ways they can be eco-friendly. This includes reducing idle time, reducing speed and avoiding fast acceleration.
• Dean recently invested in GPS technology to monitor and reduce idle time on all company vehicles and is providing incentives for operations and drivers that reduce their idle time.
• Dean recently remodeled two of its offices and incorporated energy efficient lighting and motion sensors, as well as energy efficient heating and cooling in its design.
• Dean started a volunteer group called the Dean Transportation Environmental Leadership Council (DTELC). This group is made up of drivers, attendants, mechanics, office staff and administrators. The group meets quarterly to discuss ways Dean Transportation can reduce its Carbon Footprint.
• Dean is investigating wind and solar power as well as continuing to partner with local universities and manufacturers to “green” school transportation.
• Dean is recycling used oil and is running a company recycling program for paper, cell phones, cardboard and other recyclable materials.
• Dean is using bio-fuel at some of their operations throughout the state.
• Dean is working on plans to install green roofs on its offices.
• In 2009, Dean Transportation partnered with the Greater Lansing Area Clean Cities Coalition and was awarded a $1.07 million grant from the EPA to retrofit 405 school buses with Diesel Oxidation Catalysts. With this retrofit, Dean Transportation will be one of the largest private school bus companies in the country to have this technology.

Dean Transportation and its employees have the ultimate goal of extending “green” education from the classroom, on to the school bus and into the homes of families. It is the company's mission to partner with organizations and vendors in an effort to reduce harmful emissions produced by school buses.