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WASHINGTON - A U.S. senator's successful effort to allow Seattle's public transit agency to operate shuttle services that are illegal under the federal charter service rule could be the beginning of a major assault on the rule.
Tucked away in the 2010 U.S. Department of Transportation appropriations bill that was approved by Congress in December and signed by President Obama was a provision that exempts King County Metro Transit from the charter rule that was issued 21 months ago by the...
WASHINGTON - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration expects to publish -- by the end of the first quarter of this year -- a proposed rule requiring the installation of seatbelts in motorcoaches.
The rule would apply, according to an NHTSA document, only to "newly manufactured motorcoaches" and would mandate combination lap-and-shoulder seatbelts. An abstract of the proposed rule, contained in the NHTSA document, states the new regulation "would require the installation...
WASHINGTON - For months and months, Washington politicians and policy makers have been casting about for a replacement for the fuel tax.
With a steady decline in revenue produced by the current federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, the search has been on for a new or different source of revenue to support the nation's highway system. One alternative that has gained considerable...
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STERLING, Va. - Seatbelts: To retrofit or not to retrofit?
Motorcoach operators will have some pretty tough decisions to make once federal regulators settle on how far to go with their upcoming mandate for safety belts on coaches. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration have yet to officially announce if the belts will be...
LANCASTER, S.C. - Thanks in large measure to the largess of Lancaster Trailways, a local tour bus operator, members of a National Guard unit bound for Afghanistan early in 2010 got to spend Christmas with family and friends.
Lancaster Trailways not only transported the soldiers home from their training base at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, but cut the price of the charter by $10,000 and contributed...
By Dave Millhouser
BOOM! Like an F-16 lighting its afterburner, the 1947 Aerocoach blew thunder and blue flame out of its exhaust pipe. We smart-aleck young drivers had learned that cutting the ignition on a moving, gasoline-powered coach -- and switching it back on -- lit the unburned fuel in the exhaust manifold. The resulting explosion was particularly satisfying...
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