You deserve a bus that you can count on to keep you rolling mile after mile, keep your people safe and earn a great return on your investment. And, that’s what you’ll get from ElDorado National.
Most Reliable
When you buy a bus, you naturally want to keep it on the road and out of the service bay as much of the time as possible. Your ElDorado National bus will have you rolling mile after mile because your bus is:
- Held to Exacting Quality Standards – We were the first in our class to earn ISO-9000 certification. Our quality program ensures that all systems and components are cycle and function tested. Three team members – an assembler, a team leader and a quality assurance rep – must individually test and approve over 300 components before we ship your bus.
- Exhaustively Tested – When completed, every bus is subjected to performance testing – first on our own FTA-Altoona track and then in our 57-nozzle water test booth that subjects all sides of your vehicle from the roof to the underbody to 40 psi of pressure. And, then they must pass 7 year/200,000 mile life cycle testing.
- Designed for Easy Maintenance – When it comes time to do routine maintenance, we build in features that make your life easier. From modular wiring systems, easy-to-clean finishes to anti-microbial fabrics, we strive to find every possible way to ease your workload.
- Superbly Supported – Once your bus hits the road, you can rest easy that you’re supported by the largest and most financially sound bus manufacturer in the industry; we’ve produced more small- to mid-sized buses than any other. Better still, you will find one of our dealers wherever and whenever you need them – we have the largest and longest-standing dealer network in the industry.
Safest
Transporting people carries a special responsibility to keep them safe, and we take that responsibility very seriously. After all, those people include our family and friends! That’s why we have been setting new safety standards since we opened our doors in 1979. Our buses are:
- Engineered for Safety – Our steel-reinforced composite body absorbs significant shock, minimizing and localizing damaging forces that would otherwise be transferred to the frame and interior of the bus. In the event of an accident, your driver and passengers are insulated from the worst of the blow.
- Intensively Crash Tested – The Aero Elite and Aerotech have been tested at the Transportation Research Center in Ohio. Then we test them again on our own track (the only manufacturer-owned test track in the industry), using even more rigorous standards. Our buses are the only commercial cutaway buses to complete side and rear crash testing. Every model must pass all in-house tests before leaving our plant.
- Loaded With Safety Options – We offer a huge array of safety features so that you can outfit your bus to overcome almost any hazard you can imagine.
Highest Resale Value
Our buses are proven to have the lowest operating costs and highest resale value in the industry. Our buses last because they have:
- Completely Rust-Proof Bodies – We introduced the industry’s first steel-reinforced composite bus body in 1979. Pound for pound, it’s stronger and more resilient than steel and completely rust-proof.
- Entirely Rust-Proof Frames – Unlike other buses’, our door frames, wheelchair lift frames and step wells are made with stainless steel to ensure these critical, exposed areas will last.
- Advanced Corrosion Protection – Of course, our composite bodies won’t rust, but we still protect them with a glass-hard gel coat that guards them from pollutants like gasoline, diesel fuel and commercial cleaners. And, we seal all our exterior steel surfaces with a powder coat that’s stronger and longer-lasting than paint.