Bus Operators Association

• American Bus Association Urges Government Crackdown, Enforcement Effort Targeting Rogue Operators

To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: Eron Shosteck of the American Bus Association, +1-202- 218-7220

• U.S. Newswire
• September 17, 2008

• Lakeland Bus Lines, Incorporated, Petitioner, v. National Labor Relations Board, Respondent. National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner, v. Lakeland Bus Lines, Incorporated, and Lakeland Bus Operators' Association, Respondent. National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner, v. Lakeland Bus Lines, Incorporated, Respondent., 278 F.2d 888 (3rd Cir. 1960)

Paul Spielberg, Washington, D.C. (Stuart Rothman, Gen. Counsel, Thomas J. McDermott, Associate Gen. Counsel, Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Asst. Gen. Counsel...

• Federal Circuits

• Over-the-Road Bus Accessibility Program Grants

The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of funds in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 for the Over-the-Road Bus Accessibility (OTRB) Program, initially authorized by Section 3038 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21). The OTRB program makes funds available to private operators of over-the-road buses to finance the incremental capital and training costs of complying with DOT's over-the-road bus accessibility regulation. The authorizing legislation calls for national solicitation of proposals, with grantees to be selected on a competitive basis. Program funds are available to intercity fixed-route providers and other OTRB providers at up to 90 percent of the project cost. The Surface and Air Transportation ...

... in the National Bus Traffic Association or participation in separate interline agreements,...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 25529, April 30, 2012
• Notices
• Transportation Department

• Traffic Tight-Spots Targeted

HEAVY-VEHICLE operators say traffic obstacles in New Plymouth's central business district are giving them serious headaches. Bus operators, the fire brigade, Road Transport Association and Taranaki Chamber of Commerce representatives yesterday took New Plymouth District Council roading assets manager Max Aves on a bus trip of problem areas.

• Daily News; White Plains
• June 16, 2004

• Mcdonald's Host Family Mealtime Literacy Nights in Over 70 Locations

[McDonald]'s Family Mealtime Literacy Nights is a series of five 90-mmute weekly sessions, which are provided to families free of charge. The program recently took place at a McDonald's restaurant in South Los Angeles where a group of families from Urban League Head Start were invited to their local McDonald's to learn about subjects including reading, science and math while enjoying dinner together. The courses are taught by a certified trainee from NCFL who provides families with tips and tools to incorporate literacy into everyday activities such as cooking, shopping, driving or riding a bus. The five-week no cost program funded by the McDonald's Operators' Association of Southern California in partnership with the National Center for Family Literacy armed families from the McCall Ur...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• October 30, 2009

• Bus Drivers Union, Montebello Work for Stalemate Resolution

MONTEBELLO - The bus drivers union and city are trying to hammer out an eleventh-hour labor agreement in the midst of an ongoing budget crisis. Facing a $4 million general fund deficit with no reserves, the city is asking all employees to pay their portion of retirement benefits, which would amount to a roughly 10-percent pay cut. If the parties don't reach an agreement, the city can implement its "best, last and final offer," officials said.

...," said Bob Ybarra, Montebello Bus Operators Association board member. The transit department i...

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• October 19, 2010

• Going Green with Propane School Buses Offers Great Tax Advantages

The National School Transportation Association reports that 24 million children ride 450,000 school buses every day. But the traditional smooth ride in the school bus transportation business is experiencing speed bumps that are drastically impacting its operations. The recent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel prices is wreaking havoc on the transportation budgets of school districts and independent bus contractors. Rising fuel prices, coupled with new emissions standards scheduled to take effect, present a challenge for fleet managers. For bus operators, the recently introduced propane-powered Blue Bird-built school bus presents an opportunity to more efficiently operate a fleet, obtain valuable tax credits, and become more environmentally friendly. Three targeted tax credits make pr...

• CPA Journal, The
• Vol. 80 Nbr. 3, March 2010

• Price Hikes: Gently Does It

THE subsidy cuts have kicked in, raising fuel and sugar prices a notch. While the effects on the rakyat so far have been bearable, how will the situation be as more cuts are implemented? IT FINALLY HAPPENED. AFTER ANXIOUSLY waiting for the government's decision on measures to rationalise subsidies, consumers woke up on July 16 to higher fuel and sugar prices. The RON 95 grade of petrol went up by five sen per litre and so did diesel, while RON 97 was fully floated to reflect market prices. Sugar - a major consumer item - was raised by 25 sen a kilogramme.

...The Pan-Malaysian Lorry Owners Association said it would absorb the higher costs and not pass... representing more than 500,000 eatery operators and food manufacturers pledged not to burden consu...

• Malaysian Business
• August 30, 2010

• Bus Operator Had Multiple Violations

From Pilot and wire reports BOWLING GREEN, Va.

...Many bus operators eschew terminals to offer cheap East Coast fares, ...The American Bus Association says the problem is limited to a small number of r...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• June 01, 2011

• Fracking Boom Could Go Bust in N.Y. ; While State Debates, Industry Moves On

Larry Beahan of Buffalo and Mike White of Steuben County live 130 miles away from each other, and their views on fracking seem at least that far apart. Yet, strangely, the Buffalo environmentalist and the Southern Tier property owner are equally pessimistic about what once was seen as a likely natural gas boom in the Southern Tier to match one that has transformed northern Pennsylvania.

... longtime head of a local landowners association. Such is the state of the fracking debate in the d... director of the Independent Oil and Gas Operators Association of New York State. Fracking worries. ...

• Buffalo News
• November 14, 2011