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Industry Briefs: November 15, 2019 edition
MCI gives first look at accessible, electric D45 CRTe LE CHARGE
Motor Coach Industries gave West Coast operators the first look at the new battery-electric,…
Downtown Blytheville filled with rolling bus history
BYTHEVILLE, Ark.—A fleet of antique buses and motorcoaches, some seven decades old, made the trek to one of their meccas, the beautifully restored 1937 art-deco…
Village Travel celebrates 40 years
by Heather Larson
Keeping a travel-focused company running for four decades is no easy feat. Jeff Arensdorf, the current owner of Village Travel, credits…
UMA files comments on Chicago’s emblem requirement, NY’s 19-A regulations and proposed revisions to Crash Preventability Determination
New leadership at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has dusted off some previously submitted petitions that apparently fell through the cracks or were…
Adequate seats and belts may have saved lives in Schoharie limo crash
Many of the 17 passengers killed in a fatal limousine crash last year may have survived if they were wearing seatbelts and occupying seats that…
China’s electric bus and rail industries threaten national security, retired military leaders tell Congress
Bus-maker BYD blasts efforts as “xenophobic attacks exploiting ignorance and hatred”
States ask FCC to preserve bandwidth for connected vehicles
State transportation directors have asked the Federal Communications Commission to continue reserving a portion of wireless bandwidth for transportation uses, such as for the connectivity…
Alternative Fuel News: November 1, 2019 edition
BYD (Build Your Dreams) introduced two electric vehicles at BusCon 2019 in Indianapolis. The C9M Motor Coach is the first 40-foot battery-electric motor coach of…
CVSA Safety Week cites high rates of speeding, seat belt violations
Speeding was the leading violation identified during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) 2019 Operation Safe Driver week, when 46,753 citations and 87,624 warnings were…
State transportation directors have asked the Federal Communications Commission to continue reserving a portion of wireless bandwidth for transportation uses, such as for the connectivity…
Alternative Fuel News: November 1, 2019 edition
BYD (Build Your Dreams) introduced two electric vehicles at BusCon 2019 in Indianapolis. The C9M Motor Coach is the first 40-foot battery-electric motor coach of…