A focus on relationships might be key to surviving crisis
“Swinging over Hell on a rotten vine” seems an accurate description of the bus industry’s current situation. The best thing to do right now might…
Category: Opinion
We’re in a Darwinian shift and it feels like an earthquake
No good deed goes unpunished.
An Allison regional representative invited me and a buddy to dinner at a rootin’ tootin’ restaurant in the basement of…
A lesson in choosing our battles
In late June of 1863 famed Confederate General J.E.B Stuart’s cavalry was foraging in the countryside when they bumped into a small unit of Delaware…
Millhouser: We need to win the battle and the war
More than 150 Confederate artillery pieces thundered for hours, a bombardment heard 70 miles away in Washington, DC.
It was July 3, 1863 in Gettysburg…
Millhouser: Passing along survival lessons learned post 9-11
“You’re driving a coach, climbing a two lane mountain pass. On the right is a 2,000 foot drop, and to your left is a sheer…
Driving the MC5 was a dream come true, six decades later
Ah… the good old days. The first bus I drove—in 1965, at age 18—was a Brill built the year after I was born… no power…
Another EXPO family reunion
It was at UMA EXPO back in the ’80s when a knock boomed on Sully’s door. A large, unhappy man was in the hotel’s hall…
Learning from a relationship specialist
Halla and I were discussing the state of the industry the other day, and she came up with some brilliant insights. You all know I…
Bus ingredients: Craftsmanship, technology and a really big building
Recently Van Hool invited me to visit their plants in Belgium and North Macedonia. I’ve long wanted to do an article on bus building, both…
