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 […]
Deadly bus crashes this year have made news headlines, thrusting bus safety into the forefront. At the same time the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has been shoved into the limelight as well.
Budget Truck and Auto repairs the corroded tubing in three stages By Joel Salter Winters in Wisconsin are particularly brutal on vehicles maneuvering in cold wet weather on salted roadways. As a result, Budget Truck and Auto, Janesville, WI, has become expert at one particular climate-related refurbishment procedure on late model 1990s MCI D coaches […]
Inside the ABC Companies Annual Collision Workshop, Winter Garden, FL Understanding the crippling effect a collision has on an operator is just as important to the insurance claims adjuster who routinely assesses the damages as it is to the mechanics and body repairmen who make the repairs. For that reason ABC Companies has hosted its […]
Lately officials at the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance have been on the receiving end of harsh criticism by a number of motorcoach operators wanting the agency to crack down on unsafe rogue curbside carriers.
Firefighters and paramedics in Frisco, Texas can now transport as many as 20 patients at a time with its new Ambulance Bus.
Politicians speaking on the motorcoach industry should really do a better job to differentiate one motorcoach operation from another to avoid the danger of making public statements that drag down the fully compliant 95 percent in the eye of the public.
If you’re not getting your share of the church youth group travel market, BUSRide is here to help. We have partnered with Leisure Group Travel magazine to bring you Youth Ministries On the Go, a unique publication designed to help you develop the faith-based travel market. A link to this digital publication was recently emailed to the youth ministers, senior pastors, executive pastors and business administrators at many of the largest churches and megachurches in America. Now, we’re offering this publication to you in hopes that it will open the door to this growing market niche.
It is official: interstate bus and truck drivers are prohibited from using hand-held cell phones while operating their vehicles.
The Shriners of British Columbia and Yukon now have the keys to the 6000th MCI J4500 motorcoach to roll off the E/J assembly line in Schaumburg, IL.