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SEATTLE - Darren Berg, who has presided over the fastest-growing motorcoach company in the nation during this decade, filed for personal bankruptcy protection last month.
The bankruptcy came as many of Berg's other businesses, including a group of mortgage investment funds he managed, imploded and were forced into bankruptcy by disgruntled investors. And it came after lawyers from one group of investors, armed with a court order and accompanied by sheriff's deputies, raided Berg's...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the Obama Administration favors tolling and public-private partnerships over increasing fuel taxes to pay for transportation and infrastructure.
LaHood told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that funding a long-term surface transportation bill, such as the one unveiled a year ago by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar, D-Min., requires thinking outside the box to cover the estimated...
NEW YORK CITY - Mounting bus parking problems at one of this city's most-congested tourist stops are getting a close look by city officials.
The Mayor's Midtown Citizens Committee and New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn are surveying the needs of charter-and-tour buses that visit the popular midtown theater district in hopes of finding both short- and long-term parking solutions....
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N.Y. operator adopts sophisticated system
RENSSELAER, N.Y. - During the past eight years, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has doled out $95 million in grants to scores of motorcoach companies to help pay for security improvements. Operators, large and small, have used these Bus Security Grants, as the government largess is called, to install security cameras and fencing,...
The absence of specific federal regulations covering belted seats in motorcoaches apparently hasn't slowed operators from buying coaches equipped with seatbelts. (See accompanying story that begins on Page 1.)
However, the absence of U.S. standards has produced a dichotomy among suppliers of belted seats. Some seat makers are producing belted seats that meet standards established in...
By Dave Millhouser
We were sitting in the transportation office when the HAM called. No mammal is more dangerous than a Hot Angry Mom. So, the boss listened quietly for what seemed like an hour, and then said: "Yes, ma'am, we'll fire that hot dog." The hot dog was me, and the mom had gotten a call from her kid who sat in the seat behind the driver for hundreds...
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