As a capitalist, I understand why some companies will do anything to increase their profit margins, as profit is the tool of validation in a fair exchange of value. However, they should do so through innovation and added value for the customer, not by using cheap plastic camera shells that will never survive the sometimes hostile environments of a school bus.

The all-metal shell vandal-resistant BTC-AF cameras offered by American Bus Video Inc. ensure prison bus durability and vandal resistance for pupil transport camera surveillance
The exact same high security level of vandal resistance is offered to school bus camera systems as what is offered to the Department of Corrections Police Patrol Wagon Suspect, Prisoner & Inmate in-Custody Transport Camera solutions.

Those pupils who have demonstrated aggressive or violent tendencies and must be removed from those who are able to act in a civil manner toward others are also monitored by the same BTC-AF metal-shell cameras in our Alternative School & Juvenile Detention Bus Security Camera solutions.

The metal-shell waterproof cameras we offer are ideally suited for high-moisture, high-abuse applications, such as our Testudo Lifetime Forklift Camera System Warranty. They simply do not fail like the cheap plastic cameras we have replaced in many other school bus fleets when they failed, and our systems were selected to replace their defective, short-lived products.