In the early 1960s Stan Cupp was already involved in the travel business and operating a few school buses when he jumped at the opportunity to buy up a half-dozen fledgling bus companies from the upper peninsula of Michigan to Toledo, OH.
In today’s world of environmental concerns and impacts of each industry, the bus industry is now giving serious thought to the level of impact on the environment.
Tucson, AZ-based Sun Tran opened its new 25-acre, $56 million Northwest Bus Facility on Thursday.
Southwest Transit, Eden Prairie, MN, serves the workforce and students who make the 30-mile run from Chaska, Shakopee and Eden Prairie into Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota.
For many motorcoach operators and tour companies, 2011 saw a rebound in the tourism and travel business.
Technical Research Institute of Sweden leads the push for an international test standard for suppression systems By Fredrik Rosén Statistics from the insurance sector show stricter requirements to install fire extinguishing systems in engine compartments can significantly reduce the number of total loss cases of fires in buses. The most common type of bus fire [...]
Coach America, one of America’s biggest bus operators, filed for Chapter 11 on Tuesday in Delaware bankruptcy court to protect itself from creditors.
EnTOURtain is the word Scott Hayden came up with to describe his broad-brush approach to motorcoach excursions.
Public transportation agencies are now taking bigger steps to go green, certainly more than just offering free rides on Earth Day.
Completed prototype system ready to roll The UK-based Flybus consortium reached a significant milestone in September with its successful integration of prototype hardware into an Optare Solo Midibus. The Flybus system uses a Ricardo Kinergy flywheel as the energy storage medium and a Torotrak continuously variable transmission (CVT) as the means of transferring energy between [...]
