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Sales of new motorcoaches in the U.S. and Canada fell to their lowest level of the decade last year, the result of reduced coach buying that began in the fourth quarter of 2008 and continued throughout 2009.

Still, the severity of the sales slump was less pronounced during the final quarter of last year when new-coach purchases were roughly 8 percent lower than the fourth quarter of ‘08.

The four previous quarters saw sales declines of 15, 17, 29 and 23 percent.

A total of 1,654 new over-the-road buses were sold in 2009, down from 2,017 in 2008, and 2,173 in 2007, according...

 
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The United Motorcoach Association is asking its members -- and other coach operators -- to write to a U.S. senator whose actions have undercut the less-than-two-year-old federal charter service rule.

Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington state, inserted a provision in the U.S. Department of Transportation appropriations bill that exempts King County Metro Transit of Seattle from the charter rule that the transit agency agreed to abide by when it accepted federal...

WASHINGTON -- Federal transportation safety regulators have wasted little time moving ahead with their heightened effort to bolster commercial vehicle safety.

Just a month after announcing a sweeping safety plan aimed at the motorcoach industry, the U.S. Department of Transportation moved forward with a key element of the program: text messaging.

Acting on reports that driver distraction is an important cause of many commercial vehicle accidents, the USDOT ordered a ban on texting...

JENNINGS, Kan. - With less four years in the motorcoach market, Bus and Coach International is still the new kid on the block. But to solidify its position as a new-coach supplier, it has positioned itself as an innovator, bringing new systems and features to its buses and the industry.

Soon after it introduced itself and its Chinese-built BCI Falcon 45 coach to the industry at the 2007 United...

Almost everybody agrees that driving while engrossed in a cell phone conversation or while text messaging is a really bad idea. Even folks who do it regularly know better.

But preventing people from doing it isn't easy.

And, surprise, a recently released study by the Highway Loss Data Institute and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, found there was no significant reduction...

LAS VEGAS - While the U.S. Secretary of Transportation and safety advocates wring their collective hands about the dangers of distracted driving, U.S. and foreign automakers and their high-tech partners are busy installing internet-connected computers in the front seats of new cars.

Companies ranging from computer chip-making giant Intel, to internet giant Google have turned their attention...

By Dave Millhouser

The 1947 Aerocoach was wending its way slowly across the Great Plains, and we were bored out of our skulls.

The closest thing we had to an entertainment system was a contest we had developed that involved the ubiquitous grain silos and elevators that dot the landscape across America's breadbasket.

As soon as someone spotted one in the distance,...



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