Pegasus’ Pereira garners small business award
The Small Business Development Center at the University of Central Florida has named Pegasus Transportation President Fernando Pereira as the Small Business Person of the Year for North Florida.
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Lawmakers introduce sweeping bus, motorcoach safety bill
Pennsylvania lawmakers Bill Shuster and Tim Holden, along with Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, introduced a bill in Congress Wednesday to improve passenger safety on U.S. buses and motorcoaches.
CTTransit adds 25 articulated buses
CTTransit added 25 new 60-foot “bendy buses” to the agency’s fleet for Greater New Haven and Stamford.
Fall from ‘pub crawl’ bus kills one, injures another
Massachusetts authorities are still investigating a case of two men falling from a moving bus after a day of beer drinking, leaving one dead and the other seriously injured.
Schumer: NTSB to investigate tour bus industry
Two lawmakers announced Sunday that the National Transportation Safety Board will launch a probe into the U.S. tour bus industry.
MCI hosting pre-owned sales open-houses, online auction
Motor Coach Industries is hosting three open houses at MCI Sales and Service Centers in April to sell pre-owned coaches. The first sale will be held April 5 in Blackwood, NJ. The April 13 sale will be held in Los Alamitos, CA near Los Angeles; the third will be held in Des Plaines, IL on […]
Less is more
The proposal Destination Shuttle Services (DSS), Los Angeles, CA, first presented in 2000 was strong enough to convince 13 competing hotels within a 1-1/2-mile radius of Los Angeles International Airport to buy into its idea for a singular consolidated and fully integrated shuttle bus service.
Five percent of all passengers traveling by air utilize hotel shuttle services for convenient transport to and from the serving airports. Based on the economic report prepared for 2008 by the Air Transport Association, 769.2 million travelers flew nationwide, meaning that more than 38,460,000 people used hotel shuttle bus service. LAX represents only 6.8 percent of the total number of people who rely on this service.
Vendor-managed inventory: Just in time, not just in case
he current belt-tightened economic climate has created the need for public and private sector enterprises alike to explore new areas within their operations for cost-savings and improved efficiencies. At Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA), Rochester, NY, we are known for managing our mid-sized transit organization like a private business.
Guard against complacency
Several years ago when the robust economy was riding high and investors were raking in money too fast to count, many investors lost sight of reality. All too many held the common belief that those healthy returns would continue indefinitely. Consequently, the abrupt reversal of the trend caught many investors totally unaware.
Starline Tours sued by disabled beauty pageant winners
One of the largest tour companies in Los Angeles is being sued by a group of wheelchair beauty pageant contestants for allegedly being refused tickets because of their disability.