ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The Minnesota Charter Bus Operators Association celebrated its 30-year anniversary at the end of 2016.
MCBOA was established in 1986 by several Minnesota motorcoach operators who wanted to make their voice heard to the officials at both the state and federal departments of transportation.
The association helped gain validity for the operators and their businesses and ultimately helped shape much of the rules at the federal and state levels governing the charter bus industry after deregulation in the 1980s.
Today, MCBOA represents 37 motorcoach operators in Minnesota and North and South Dakota.
MCBOA is very active in industry events, including sending board members to the United Motorcoach Association’s annual Capitol Hill Days Fly-In in Washington, D.C.
MCBOA also represented its members at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s October roundtable in Washington to discuss the controversial lease and interchange rule.
MCBOA is also active at the state level, and worked recently with legislators to change a law that held bus drivers responsible for seatbelt violations by passengers. It was a big win for the industry because the law would have affected all seatbelt-equipped buses operating in and through Minnesota.
