“Why Consider A Lifetime System Warranty?”

In a perfect world filled with political integrity, doctors who care more for their patients than the money they make from them,
federal agencies that act within the framework of the US Constitution and a puppy dog to pet whenever you get stressed, there would be no need for a “Lifetime System Warranty” for a School Bus Video Surveillance Camera system because nothing would ever fail or wear out.

In the real world, the obvious question of why everyone does not have a “Lifetime System Warranty” for their student transportation bus camera system, maybe due to the fact that up to now it has not been available, so most do not know that is available and those that do know that is available do not purchase the extended warranty and waste future funding buying the exact same components over and over when they fail through wear and tear or abuse of student vandalism.

When future problems occur with the video camera system in school buses, how many times do you want to pay to replace a bad component of the system?
The life of a fragile hard-drive-based DVR is often less than 1 year before the hard drive crashes due to vibration, shock, heat, moisture, or high humidity. Special Needs Wheelchair Bus Video Cameras systems operate in smoother riding buses and often with air conditioning, so they seem to last longer in these applications than in the charter bus student contractor bus video camera system applications which have no A/C and often ride on steel spring suspension.

Considering the life of the school bus these systems are purchased to service often exceeds 10 years it could be possible that the fragile hard drives require replacement up to 5 times in that period, and even if you purchase a 100% Solid State drive, you still have connectors that must interface each time the drive is removed and reinserted and those connections are typically not haded for high-frequency use, in the manner they might be used in a school bus video camera observations application. So while the 100% SSD may not wear out, the connections on the DVR it slides into may become damaged.

I have seen incidents where even SSDs that are designed for high-frequency use are affected when the forklift safety camera system operator pushes the SDXC memory card into the slot upside down and when it does not fit they force the card into the DVR causing the SD card bay receptacle in the DVR to become damaged and require the entire DVR to be replaced.

The same scenario has been experienced with the slide-in SSDs that are also 100% solid-state but have industry standard hard drive connectors built into them that must fit into the receptacle on the DVR properly and it is not infrequent to have a DVR sent in that has the receptacle damaged or the SSD drive pins get bent, and either case will cause the system to be inoperable.

It has also been surprising over the last few decades to see just how many low-cost school bus camera systems have been damaged by something you would not usually expect to see them damaged, water.
Some months DVR is on the driver’s left knee wall and some drivers leave their window open at night while the bus components can suffer an occasional drenching without a problem; an electronic DVR cannot.

Others place drinks on the DVRs that drip into them when condensation forms in the hot months and others spill their drinks into them.
The worse problem we have ever seen was a school district that had a convict community service program where the inmates would clean the buses and wash them, and they were provided a high-pressure want to wash the outside of the buses. They used said high-pressure wands to remove dust from the interior of the bus destroying every single bus video observation camera system DVR in the fleet in a 2-day period over summer vacation.

They also destroyed the electronic indicator panels with the gauges so they likely did biot $3,000.00 damage per bus which did not amuse the judge they were assigned the option to reduce their sentence.








Lifetime Warranty or new DVRs every few years?

1 - Who offers the “Best Warranty” available for your School Bus Video Surveillance Camera System?

2 - Who offers the “Best Value” price of a School Bus Video Surveillance Camera System?


The above 2 questions can be completely different systems.
Question 1 refers to the longest Warranty Coverage.
Question 2 refers to the “Best Value” price.


It is Human nature to want the best of what we purchase, get the most for our money, and get the “Best Value” in what we are buying. Those who seek to purchase School Bus Video Surveillance Camera System for their district want the same value for their district, so it is essential to understand how the System Warranty term affects the price of the system so that they can make an educated decision to purchase what is best for their district.


The customer determines the “Best Value” in a school bus video camera surveillance system warranty.  American Bus Video Inc. offers an optional “Testudo Limited Lifetime Warranty,” providing the widest selection of choices while respecting the desire of most for the lowest price possible in our standard 1-Year Warranty as it will have the lowest cost, and the school bus market is usually seeking the “Best value” not the longest lasting as that costs more.

Student Transportation School Bus Camera System purchasers can get what they desire at a lower-cost stretching their budget dollars, and those few who require a lifetime Warranty, currently only offered by American Bus Video Inc., can get just that, the knowledge that should any originally purchased system component fail due to product failure in regular operation, it will be replaced under warranty forever.

Contract Student Charter Bus Services Camera System purchasers are often purchasing to meet a Student transportation contract BID or RFP compliance requirements. In those cases, they might prefer a much longer-lasting system warranty because they do not want to have additional expenses should a product fail under a 10+ year life of the bus in the contract.

The “Testudo Lifetime Warranty” offered by American Bus Video Inc. covers every single component in the system. It is at the time of this writing, the longest term Extended Warranty Option available for those who feel they need a Lifetime Warranty.









Applications where Lifetime System Warranty can save funding:


Elderly Day Care Shuttle & Assisted Living Transportation Vehicle Video Cameras is a long-term vehicle application, so the chance of the Vehicle Video Camera Surveillance Camera system components breaking down over time is an inevitable result of daily wear and tear in a mobile application. This is an application where the “Testudo Lifetime Warranty” offered by American Bus Video Inc. makes sense.


Paratransit Driver Safety Video Camera Surveillance Systems, in some cases, maybe an application that explicitly matches to a government-funded goal, and in some cases, these may have long-term operations, and in others, they may change as legislation changes for the government funding. This is an application where the “Testudo Lifetime Warranty” offered by American Bus Video Inc. makes sense.


Forklift HD Industrial Operator Safety Camera Recorder Systems operate in a very hostile environment, and system component failure is accelerated due to the harsh wet industrial environment. This is an application where the “Testudo Lifetime Warranty” offered by American Bus Video Inc. makes sense.

Police Prisoner & Inmate in-Custody Transport Cameras is another vehicle application that the vehicles can easily last up to a decade, so the chance of the Vehicle Video Camera Surveillance Camera system components breaking down over time is an inevitable result of daily wear and tear in a mobile application.
This is an application where the “Testudo Lifetime Warranty” offered by American Bus Video Inc. makes sense.


Before & After Care School, Child Day Care Pickup In-vehicle Shuttle Safety Cameras is another vehicle application that the vehicles can easily last up to a decade, so the chance of the Before School Child Day Care Vehicle Video Camera Surveillance Camera system components breaking down over time is an inevitable result of daily wear and tear in a mobile application.
This is an application where the “Testudo Lifetime Warranty” offered by American Bus Video Inc. makes sense.


Head Start  Pre-K Pre-School Nursery School Child Safety Bus Camera Recorder systems is another vehicle application that the vehicles can easily last up to a decade, so the chance of the Head Start Preschool Video Camera Surveillance Camera system components breaking down over time is an inevitable result of daily wear and tear in a mobile application.
This is an application where the “Testudo Lifetime Warranty” offered by American Bus Video Inc. makes sense.





Should you have any questions, concerns, or require more information about various applications or Cannabis Transportation Video Camera Recorder configurations, we encourage you to let us know, and we will be happy to offer our 30+ years of market experience in sales and service of digital recording devices to respond to your concerns or questions.