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Items for Sale or Wanted!
Trans-Bridge Lines, Wolf's Bus Lines and Krapf Transportation have coaches for sale now!
Get details on these opportunities and let us help you sell or find an item (Operators only).
Visit the NEW Items for Sale or Wanted page
on our website.
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Webinar Feedback
Did you attend our webinar yesterday 5 Steps to Getting More Group Tours? If so, we would love to get your feedback! Your input helps us to continue to deliver to you quality learning opportunities. Note, all participants will receive a recording of the webinar. Thank you!
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2020 Marketplace
March 23-24, 2020
Registration is officially open! Early bird ends 10/31. Tell your friends, too!
Register today!
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Annual Meeting
June 21-24, 2020
Wind Creek, Bethlehem
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PBA Board of Director's News
Recently, Dale McMichael (Executive Coach) was elected to the board of director's for United Motorcoach Association. Dale will continue on the PBA board but due to time restraints of serving on both boards and running his business, will vacate his role of PBA's Treasurer.
Current PBA board member, Brian Kurtz (Elite Coach), has accepted to take on the Treasurer position. This is a role he has fulfilled for the Association in the past. We would like to thank both gentlemen for their time and contributions!
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Clearinghouse Implementation
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PBA Represented At Port Authority Meeting
The current Port Authority bus terminal in NYC handles 860 buses an hour during rush hours and a total of 260,000 daily passenger trips. That's expected to jump by 30% in two decades as the bi-state agency looks to boost mass transit ridership.
There have been design competitions and public meetings, including one on Thursday, September 5th. Our Executive Director, Pattie Cowley attended the public hearing. She made public comments on behalf of the Association and its members, sharing desires from bus operator members, as plans develop.
Options Being Considered:
The location and size of a new structure have been major concerns; 15 possibilities were reviewed, including moving the bus terminal to New Jersey. There's three current options being submitted to the federal government:
- Build a new bus terminal at the current spot
- Remodel the existing structure and add space at the Jacob Javits Convention Center property. The Javits Center on 11th Avenue is a little under a mile away from Port Authority. A project there would require approval from the state and reconfiguring access for buses to the Lincoln Tunnel.
- Build an entirely new terminal on the lower level of the Convention Center and in that area
Next Steps:
Federal officials will review the public comments and options, then weigh in. The Port Authority has budgeted $3.5 billion for the new terminal, but the overall cost could hit $10 billion depending on which of the three designs it chooses. The agency will ask for environmental impact statements for each option and then pick a winner. Officials say construction could start by 2022.
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Brake Safety Week is Sept. 15-21
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's (CVSA) Brake Safety Week is scheduled for Sept. 15-21. Throughout that week, enforcement officials will conduct roadside safety inspections on commercial motor vehicles throughout North America. Vehicles with critical brake violations, or other critical vehicle inspection item violations, will be restricted from traveling until those violations are corrected. Vehicles without critical vehicle inspection item violations are eligible to receive a CVSA decal indicating that the vehicle passed inspection.
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ABA Foundation Research Shows Motorcoach Travel Is the Greenest Mode of Transportation
The American Bus Association Foundation - the largest non-profit organization in the group travel industry, with an emphasis on research and scholarships - recently updated its environmental study of different modes of transportation to find how the motorcoach industry stood up. The result: Motorcoach travel remains the greenest mode of transportation.
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Opposition to NY-19A Requirements for Interstate Carriers
In 2012, FMCSA published the initial petition and established a comment docket, but took no action. Now, in 2019, FMCSA has re-opened the matter by re-publishing notice of the petition for additional comment. ABA encourages all operators to file comments in support of FMCSA making a preemption determination that Article 19-A and does not apply to interstate carriers. COMMENTS ARE DUE OCTOBER 3, 2019.
Background: Provisions of Article 19-A and the implementing regulations establish a wide range of requirements applicable to both interstate and intrastate passenger carriers operating in New York. Under this regulatory scheme, all interstate passenger carriers must, among other things, file an annual compliance affidavit certifying their drivers are not disqualified under State law and reporting the number of days and vehicle miles of bus service provided in New York during the previous year.
Article 19-A exceed federal driver qualification requirements administered by FMCSA, and overly burden interstate carriers, requires carriers to report information to the NY DMV about a driver's employment status, disqualification, pending criminal charges, out-of-State driving record, miles driven and number of convictions and accidents and requires that carriers participate in New York's Conviction and Accident Notification program, establish an escrow account in New York, administer tests and assessments of driving skills in excess of that required by the FMCSRs, and submit affidavits attesting to compliance with Article 19-A.
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Malagari Supports Legislation to Improve Safety on PA Roads
Every year, needless deaths on Pennsylvania roadways can be avoided. In an effort to make roads safer and protect pedestrians and drivers, state Rep. Steve Malagari will soon introduce multiple pieces of legislation to improve roadway safety.
- He wants to increase fines for drivers found guilty of texting while driving.
- He wants to require drivers to stop at a crosswalk when pedestrians are waiting to cross a street.
- And he wants to allow farmers to grant easements on their land for use as non-motorized recreation trails.
Read more...
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Paying PA Turnpike Tolls? A New App is Coming
Drivers could soon pay Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls using a smartphone app.
The launch of the app is expected later this year, Turnpike Commission spokesman Carl DeFebo said. The idea of offering the app is twofold: provide customers different options to pay tolls as well as work toward eliminating collectors from booths by 2022.
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New Member Benefit! Did You Hear About CrownSource?
CrownSource is a total spend management savings solutions company for the transportation industry. Please email us
if you'd like to join in to learn more. Alternatively, please feel free to c
ontact our dedicated account manager, Erin Thompson, at 913.253.2242 or via email at
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