ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Five members of the United Motorcoach Association board of directors and one associate director have been re-elected and one new member has been tapped to join the board.
Board members who were re-elected are:
- Region I (the West): Jeff Polzien of Red Carpet Charters in Oklahoma City and Dennis Streif of Vandalia Bus Lines in Caseyville, Ill.
- Region II (the Midwest): Alan Thrasher of Thrasher Brothers Trailways in Birmingham, Ala.
- Region III (the Northeast): Dave Dickson of Elite Coach in Ephrata, Pa., and Michael Neustadt of Coach Tours, Ltd., in Brookfield, Conn.
In Region II, Larry Williams of L.W. Transportation in Chantilly, Va., was elected to replace incumbent board member James Brown of Magic Carpet Tours Bus Service in Richmond, Va.
In addition, associate director Bob Greene of Amay-Astron Seating in Omaha, Neb., won re-election as the board’s non-coachbuilder representative.
Nineteen members of the 21-member UMA board are regional directors who must be coach operators and who are elected to three-year staggered terms from the three regions of the U.S., plus a single director elected from Canada (Region IV).
In addition, there are non-coachbuilder and coachbuilder associate-board representatives who also serve three-year terms.
Maps showing the UMA regions are available in the UMA Membership Directory. The names of the current directors and a list of the states included in each region can be found on the association website, www.uma.org/about/uma-board-of-directors/.
