Driving Force was created to help the entire industry and companies of all sizes to attract and retain drivers.
The proposed budget reconciliation title from the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee would provide the transit industry with $30 billion in emergency funding.
After lobbying Congress for 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic and seeing more than 80,000 personnel furloughed and nearly half of the industry's 3,000 small, family-owned businesses shuttered, the industry recently received a desperately needed shot in the arm.
Financial institutions have predicted without federal government relief aid, the industry could see more than 40% of the 3,000 businesses permanently shut down.
The data collected by FMCSA shows a surge in losses of authority for motorcoach operators in 2020, which means these companies are no longer providing transportation, in some cases forever.
The ABA’s Peter Pantuso and UMA’s Larry Killingsworth discuss the state of motorcoach operations today, the fight for emergency funding, and what the future may hold in a post-pandemic world.
Leaders from the ABA, UMA, and NSTA continue to urge Congressional leaders and the White House to include the bill in any future stimulus package.
Busworld is the largest international bus show in the world with events in six countries.
Most operators have had nearly zero revenue coming in, and no help from Congress while almost every other form of passenger transportation receiving $91 Billion in the CARES Act.
Leading industry associations call for Congress to include the legislation in a COVID-19 stimulus package as they struggle with furloughs and layoffs of about 308,000 employees due to the pandemic.
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