The origins of standardizing yellow as the color of school buses go all the way back to 1939. Frank W. Cyr, known as the "father of the yellow school bus," picked up the color with help from peers ...

From beer taps to artwork, several RAGBRAI teams use old school buses not only to transport their gear but also to make a statement about their team. Des Moines Register Here are 3 of them.

Two years later, at the first conference dedicated to improving school buses, Cyr hung paint samples on the wall and tapped a small group of attendees to choose a uniform color for U.S. school buses.

While the color of a school bus is the first thing that jumps out at us and causes many to wonder why school buses are yellow, their black lines get a fair amount of attention too.

Creative team buses add to the color of RAGBRAI. Here are 3 of them. Kevin Baskins. ... The 1996 school bus was purchased by the team in 2015 and like most aging vehicles, ...

A similar visibility is applied to school buses, which are coated in a signature yellow color. The specific name of this ...

Every single school bus in the United States is painted the exact same color — a hue officially known as "National School Bus Glossy Yellow" — but it wasn't always that way. A century ago, kids were ...