TriMet, INIT and moovel offer innovative fare payments in Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area Just months after the successful launch of TriMet’s open payment Hop FastpassTM system by INIT, another milestone is being celebrated. The first regional account-based virtual transit fare card has reached full launch status and can now be used by riders in the Portland-Vancouver […]
Van Hool invests more than $47 million dollars in a second foreign production site after Skopje, Macedonia. The “Buy America Act” obliges Van Hool to build a factory in America for the local bus market with growth potential. The factory in Morristown will be operational during the first quarter of 2020 with 600 employees […]
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Davey Coach Sales and its sister company DCS America announced the acquisition of Intermountain Coach, located in Colorado Springs, CO. Intermountain Coach has been a dealer and lessor of mid-size buses in the Rocky Mountain Region for over 20 years. Its robust lease and short-term rental business will be a great addition to the lease […]
Complete Coach Works (CCW) was awarded first place in two categories of APTA’s 2018 Annual Ad Wheel Awards Competition. In September 2017, CCW competed against more than 360 entries in 14 advertising categories. All submissions were evaluated by 60 industry experts. Of the 14 categories, CCW was nominated first place in two of the 14 […]
ARBOC Specialty Vehicles (“ARBOC”), a U.S. subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc. (“NFI Group”), today announced the 3000th bus produced in the ARBOC Specialty Vehicles facility. In 2008, ARBOC Specialty Vehicles produced its first bus, and today, ten years later, it celebrates the production of their 3000th bus with a new customer, the City […]
Motor Coach Industries (MCI), the U.S. subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc. (“NFI Group”), the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, is adding more sales support with the addition of Ethan Sprengeler as Regional Sales Vice President. Sprengeler joined MCI on February 26, and will support the company’s […]
New Flyer Industries Canada ULC and New Flyer of America Inc. (collectively “New Flyer”), subsidiaries of New Flyer Industries Inc. (“NFI Group”), the largest transit bus and motor coach manufacturer and parts distributor in North America, announced a mutual agreement with A. Girardin Inc. (“Girardin”) to cease distribution of New Flyer products through Girardin in […]
By Madeline Parks Over time, bus operators have developed an understandable distaste for brokers in the industry. Many customers have shared horror stories in which they’ve booked through brokers and received the wrong type of bus, gotten a driver who wasn’t certified, been over-quoted for a trip, or had their trip canceled at the last […]
Motor Coach Industries (MCI), the U.S. subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc. (“NFI Group”), announced 30 new MCI Commuter Coaches will soon roll into Broward County Transit’s Express Bus Service. The new 2018 models will join 14 other MCI Commuter Coaches the agency purchased in 2014 and 2015. Broward County Transit’s (BCT) Express Bus Service, […]