Patent ID: 8056958

Claim:
A school bus rollover protection structure comprising: a vehicle support platform; a forward pair of vertically extending load bearing members and a rearward pair of vertically extending load bearing members, each of both the forward pair of vertically extending load bearing members and the rearward pair of vertically extending load bearing members being attached at a lower end to the vehicle support platform; a first pair of longitudinally extending side beams attached to one of the forward pair of vertically extending load bearing members and the rearward pair of vertically extending load bearing members, and a second pair of longitudinally extending side beams attached to another one of the forward pair of vertically extending load bearing members and the rearward pair of vertically extending load bearing members; a forward pair of transverse load bearing members and a rearward pair of transverse load bearing members; a pair of upper corner longitudinally extending beams attached to an upper end of each of the forward pair of vertically extending load bearing members and the rearward pair of vertically extending load bearing members, and attached to a first distal end of each of the forward pair of transverse load bearing members and the rearward pair of transverse load bearing members; and a center upper longitudinally extending beam attached to a second distal end of each of the forward pair of transverse load bearing members and the rearward pair of transverse load bearing members wherein rearward ends of each of the pair of upper corner longitudinally extending beams extends rearward beyond a rearward end the center upper longitudinally extending beam.