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…
Category: Opinion
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…
The elephant in the room
I just returned from BusWorld in Brussels, and my feet still hurt. My FitBit told me that walking the show, end to end, was over…
Diving and begging for sales in a shrinking industry
Over 30+ years of selling buses I did some strange things to close deals. One of the owners of a quality, small, Connecticut charter operation…
European bus people look like us. And there sure are a lot more of them.
It’s HUGE.
Oakie and I had been invited to October’s Busworld in Brussels, and as we sauntered through the entrance with about 50,000 of our…