Safety Management Cycle: NTSB champions safety tool
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration make one of its assessment and compliance tools, known as…
Operator-led suit against N.Y. MTA gets favorable ruling
MINEOLA, N.Y. A state supreme court justice has ruled that a payroll tax that funnels hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the New…
Bulgarian bus bombing resonates in U.S.
WASHINGTON In the wake of the suicide bombing last month of a bus full of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, motorcoach operators in this country…
OMAHA, Neb. Intercity routes that Greyhound Lines is abandoning this month, as well as some it abandoned years ago, are being picked up by…
Fatal 2011 crash produces list of safety recommendations
WASHINGTON The National Transportation Safety Board has formally communicated — to three federal regulatory agencies and four trade groups the 16 safety recommendations…
NTSB pushes expanded review of driver histories
WASHINGTON Bus and truck operators should be required to review 10 years of driving records before hiring new drivers, the National Transportation Safety Board…
TSX6-12 Approved List
FAIRFAX, Va. A transportation safety company that boasts of providing more stringent motorcoach inspections than those performed by federal safety regulators is now offering…
N.C. operator Sam Moore dies
SALISBURY, N.C. – Sam Moore, the gregarious son of a North Carolina bus pioneer and a long-time operator himself, died here late last month. He…
Canadians are flocking to U.S. in record numbers
The United States welcomed a record number of Canadian travelers in 2011, receiving 21 million overnight visits, with Canadian motorcoach operators participating in the bonanza.…
Lanny Rogers dies at age 76, ran two companies in Texas
HOUSTON Lanny G. Rogers, who spent nearly a quarter century as a union executive before buying a motorcoach company, died here last month. He…