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Objectives include increasing awareness of the importance of safety and enforcement among all stakeholders; identifying policy-related barriers and developing opportunities for addressing targeted challenges; and developing tools and resources for educating and training on the maintenance, operations, and purchasing of motorcoach services.
Read More →Operators can purchase tickets for $250 through August 15 for the Over-the-Road Bus Accessibility-ADA Grant Application Raffle. The amount expected to be available for the 2011 grant is $8.8 million. The prize is valued at $5,000.
Read More →Pacific Western Transportation's travel service program for patients needing to travel for out-of-town medical appointments features a Prevost luxury model coach equipped to accommodate wheelchair and scooter passengers.
Read More →Between 2000 and 2009, FMCSA issued a total of 14 imminent hazard orders placing unsafe carriers out of service. In just the last two years, FMCSA has already issued another 14 imminent hazard orders to take carriers that pose an immediate risk to passengers off the road.
Read More →The driver of the Niagara Falls-bound bus, owned by Bedore Tours of North Tonawanda near Buffalo, lost control of the bus Sunday and ran off the road into the woods near Avoca, 55 miles south of Rochester.
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First Class Tours’ three 2011 Van Hool C2045s feature enclosed parcel racks, three-point seat belts, and a rear passenger window. Harlow’s Trailways received a new 2011 Van Hool T2145 equipped with a Detroit Diesel DD13/Allison Gen4 B500 drive train, and Celebrity Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation received a Van Hool C2045 with 57 leather and cloth seats with three-point seat belts.
Read More →Calls for more efficient passenger loading and unloading, metered parking spaces where buses can wait for customers and a permit system to better manage and enforce tour bus parking and loading.
Read More →School joins a growing number of prestigious colleges and universities, such as Boston College, Northeastern University, Harvard University, Wellesley College and Bentley University, who have contracted with the company to carry their students, faculty and athletic teams.
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Senate legislation for bus safety includes mandates for seat belts and stronger roofs to reduce rollover fatalities.
Read More →Two pilot projects measured the effect of increased law enforcement coupled with high-profile public education campaigns. In Syracuse, N.Y., because of high-visibility enforcement, both handheld cell phone use and texting behind the wheel declined by one-third. In Hartford, Conn., there was a 57 percent drop in handheld use and texting behind the wheel dropped by nearly three-quarters.
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