Matthews Buses opens new Orlando facility

Matthews Buses, one of the largest bus dealers in the U.S. and one of Rifled Air Conditioning’s best distributors, opened its new Orlando, FL facility earlier this month. An official grand opening is being planned for January when the shop addition is completed, making the entire facility 26,000 square feet of space. The new facility features a plush customer lounge and conference room and a new parts storage system and mezzanine.

A plush customer lobby is part of the new Orlando facility.

The Matthews Group, Inc. was formed in 1985. Rifled Air Conditioning, Matthews Specialty Vehicles and Matthews Mobile Media soon followed as members of The Matthews Group. In August 2008, Matthews became the Thomas Built Buses Dealer for Central and Northern Florida, based out of Orlando. In February 2009, Matthews also became the Thomas Built Bus Dealer for the Hudson Valley in New York State, based out of Maybrook.

Matthews Buses has been in the business of meeting commercial transportation needs in airport shuttle, retirement home, health care facility, government agency and more, since 1974. Matthews’ commercial offerings include the complete Thomas Built Buses, Inc. line-up of products, including specialty needs buses and wheelchair lift vehicles in a variety of sizes. Matthews is one of America’s top performers for Startrans (Supreme) selling buses throughout New York and New England, while also representing the full line of buses from Champion, Elkhart Coach, Federal Coach and Turtle Top.

Matthews offers full service Sales and Service facilities located in Syracuse, Dansville, Ballston Spa and Maybrook, NY, and Orlando, with technicians who are Thomas Built, Mercedes, Caterpillar, Cummins, Freightliner and Allison Transmission trained and certified.

For more, visit www.matthewsbuses.com.