Emerging Australian bus and coach brand Challenger has announced it has recently delivered units of its popular V12 bus model to South Australia’s Maitland Lutheran School.
Based on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula, Maitland Lutheran School has received a V12 57-seat school bus, continuing a busy sales year for Challenger Bus & Coach.
Challenger Victorian sales manager Dan Campbell says the process for this delivery began when the school reached out to him throughout the middle of the year.
“We had numerous good conversations and progressed to the point that Greg (Challenger founder and managing director Greg Sloan) and I decided to drive the vehicle over there for them to inspect and test drive in October,” Campbell told ABC.
“Shortly after that, we agreed that the school would purchase the vehicle.”
The situation moved quickly afterwards, with pre-delivery conducted in Melbourne and the vehicle delivered on November 23.
The Challenger V12 model delivered to Maitland Lutheran School is a Euro 5 model that comes with Thermo King air-conditioning, 57 fixed Fainsa seats and seat belts.
Campbell says the vehicle is already helping to solve one of the school’s key concerns that was their isolation and how it makes spare parts and aftersales service difficult to receive.
“We arranged to deliver the vehicle with several key parts, including windscreens, lights, belts and filters on consignment,” Campbell says.
“Maitland Lutheran School will then let us know when the parts are used so we can invoice them and re-stock them with new parts so that they’re never left without any.”
Spare parts will become more readily available for Challenger through its spare parts side of the business, Australasian Bus and Coach Parts, which can be found here.