By Jay Hirsch
When Chuck Schrodel was a young boy, like many boys of his generation he had a fixation for vehicles … but not the average four-wheeled coupe or sedan. Chuck liked buses! He even got to be a driver of buses while serving in the army. Growing up on a dairy farm, he learned to drive several big rigs, which enabled him to be a driver of big rigs and military buses while stationed at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
After being discharged from the army Chuck went to college and upon graduation went to work for IBM in New York. The success Chuck had at IBM afforded him the luxury of pursuing his interest and love of military vehicles and cars and buses used by military police.
In the 1980s Chuck’s interest in military vehicles was more than an interest as he had eight military vehicles, one of which was a 1943 three-quarter-ton command car which he had on the field at the Meadowlands, N.J., on Dec. 4, 1993, for the Army-Navy football game. The three-quarter-ton’s passengers were three WWII Medal of Honor recipients.
In 2013 Chuck decided he was finally going to buy a 1970s Buffalo bus and through friends in the collector bus community …
