Category: Opinion
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…
When you don’t do science, “common sense” prevails
“I put it on the fax and punched in the number,” whined Margie.
She…
Who knew Memory Lane would be 5,600 miles long?
In August of 1963 a bunch of my classmates and I piled onto a 1947 IC41 Brill and headed northwest from Baltimore. For years I’ve…
Technology, driving style and love
It was a MIRACLE. A sudden power outage in downtown Dallas had darkened all the traffic signals. In New England, my stomping grounds, this would…
Congestion Pricing Board must be bus-friendly
by Glenn Every
Mass transit watchers are eagerly anticipating who will be appointed to the six-person Traffic Mobility Review Board, which was embedded in last…
