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Simple, proactive steps that can reduce your motorcoach liability costs include marketing your best qualities to your agent, sharing risk, upgrading driver training and seeking technologies aimed at liability control.
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The company has experienced significant growth over the last decade and currently supplies over 50% of the public transit passenger seating in North America.
Read More →The board adopted the agency’s fiscal year 2027 budget, approving approximately $64.5 million in spending reductions, including about $53 million in administrative cuts and roughly $11 million in service reductions.
Read More →Bigger, heavier wheelchairs and the need for space have forced transit and motorcoach operators to reconfigure their specifications and go beyond ADA requirements.
Read More →The system already celebrated its millionth boarding passenger in May, ahead of projected ridership numbers. Since the launch of Sun Link streetcar, approximately 1.1 million passengers have enjoyed the ride.
Read More →The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is advising motorcoach operators to inspect all buses equipped with automatic slack adjusters manufactured by Haldex Brake Products for fractured or disconnected control arms.
Read More →About 1 percent of all buses suffer some form of fire incident each year. For many years, the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden has been at the forefront of research on improving bus fire safety. The organization has an ongoing project with the intention of creating an international standard for fire suppression systems in engine compartments of buses and coaches.
Read More →Fleets are characteristically smaller in part two of METRO’s motorcoach survey, with 33% of operators making no new bus purchases this year.
Read More →Industry-wide use of EOBR's would be encouraged with incentives for voluntary use.
Read More →Why Austin Transit Partnership's Operations and Maintenance Facility could become the most important building in the city's first light rail system.
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