September 2016 - BUSRide


Avoiding the pitfalls of workers' comp

Avoiding the pitfalls of workers’ comp By Tim O’Bryan The continuing series with Tim O’Bryan, president of Service Insurance Agency, Richmond, VA, now focuses on workers’ compensation claims – specifically, the pitfalls of workers’ comp and how motorcoach operators can avoid them. What’s one of the biggest pitfalls that motorcoach operators don’t foresee when dealing […]

INIT invests in Bytemark

INIT Innovations in Transportation, Inc. has acquired a 27.5 per cent stake in Bytemark, Inc., a leading provider of mobile ticketing technologies in the transit industry.   Bytemark, Inc., located in New York, with additional offices in the UK, Canada, India and Australia, has developed a patent-protected technology that powers a secure mobile ticketing platform […]

ARBOC donates to Spirity of Alexandria Foundation

ARBOC Specialty Vehicles of Middlebury, IN, the leader in the low floor bus market, recently held its annual dealer seminar in conjunction with its charity golf outing and raised $50,325.00 for the Spirit of Alexandria Foundation.  As a supporter of the foundation, ARBOCs donations of over $400,000 in the past 10 years have aided the […]

Fleetmatics connects with ECS Transportation

OFFICIAL BUSRide Field Test: Fleetmatics connects with ECS Transportation When the Connecticut operator needed a better way to track vehicles, he turned to Fleetmatics By Richard Tackett For Gene Horne, president of ECS Transportation, Norwalk, CT, a two-minute GPS refresh rate just wasn’t sufficient for his burgeoning school transportation business. For years his company used […]

Genfare links with Porterville Transit

OFFICIAL BUSRide Field Test: Genfare links with Porterville Transit A small, urban agency pioneers technology at the level of major metropolitan systems By Richard Tackett Porterville Transit was in search of an upgrade. Rather, two upgrades: more fare payment choices for passengers, and more options for passengers to quickly and conveniently pay for service. “We […]

Q’Straint secures the future of accessibility at Tulsa Transit

Official BUSRide Field Test: Q’Straint secures the future of accessibility at Tulsa Transit By David Hubbard Emeka Nnaka arrived in Tulsa, OK, in 2007 to attend Oral Roberts University and carve out his career goals, with early success playing semi-pro football pointing the way. His future was looking bright after an Oklahoma Thunder championship caught […]