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Blue Bird’s next act is hiding in plain yellow.
The school bus looks familiar. The decisions underneath it are changing. Blue Bird is making a business out of helping districts choose what comes next.
International sells the truck. The real business is keeping it moving.
The company once called Navistar is connecting engines, dealers, software, and spare parts around one stubborn problem: a parked truck earns nothing.
Zūm
Zūm is a Redwood City, California company that has reinvented the most analog corner of education: the yellow school bus. It pairs an AI-driven routing and fleet-management platform with apps for parents, drivers and districts, then layers on a fast-growing fleet of electric buses with vehicle-to-grid charging that can sell power back to the grid. Serving roughly 4,500 schools and districts nationwide, Zūm turned a clipboard-and-radio industry into a connected, electrified mobility network.