Spring Fling 2018 Focused on History of Trailways System HERSHEY, Pa
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July 1, 2018 MCI bus crash victim reportedly under investigation LAS VEGAS — “Shocking University of Nevada-Reno medi- Khiabani’s colleagues told Knapp defects didn’t cause the accident. A Sept. 2016 email mentioned the new evidence” appeared on a Las cal school where the victim prac- they immediately were suspicious MCI has since requested a new most serious compliance issue Vegas television station as attor- ticed hand surgery. that the collision was not accidental. trial in the case. centered on someone identified as neys for Motor Coach Industries Kayvan Khiabani, 51, was This past March, a jury award- The 2016 audit “uncovered ‘Dr. K.’ Dr. K turns out to be Dr. were preparing appeals of an killed on April 20, 2017, while rid- ed Khiabani’s sons $18.7 million widespread billing errors and seri- Kayvan Khiabani, a hand surgeon $18.7-million jury award follow- ing his bike next to a bus. Witness- in damages from MCI, which ous lack of oversight” at the uni- who earned more than a million ing a bicyclist’s fatal collision with es said he bumped into the bus and manufactured the bus involved in versity’s medical clinics, the sta- dollars from UNR in 2015.” an MCI motorcoach. was run over. the accident. The jury said MCI tion reported. Administration of University of KLAS-TV reporter George On the day of the accident, the failed to provide an adequate The “blatant billing problems” Nevada medical practices was Knapp obtained a long-hidden reporter found, Khiabani had been warning system that could have included “overbilling of Medicare, being transferred from the Reno audit of billing problems at the told he was losing his job. Some of avoided the accident, but said bus Medicaid and private insurance… CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 c Spring Fling 2018 focused on history of Trailways system HERSHEY, Pa. — Nearly 500 Infanti Bus & Coach Upholstery, bus fans and industry veterans of Linden, N.J., lovingly refur- made the pilgrimage to Hershey bished the interior, creating the last month for the Museum of Bus feel and appearance of a brand Transportation’s annual Spring new coach, circa 1945 — a sort of Fling and were rewarded with sun- transportation time machine. shine and the opportunity to min- Early in the 1950s, ACF Brill gle with more than 60 antique and built a few school buses based on modern buses. its C31 transit model. Krapf The vehicles on display ranged Coaches sponsored the restoration from a 1908 White to 2018 Prevost of this exceedingly rare bus. and Van Hool demonstrator The theme of this year’s Spring coaches. Fling was a tribute to Trailways’ 80 Two major highlights were a years of service, with Trailways pristine 1945 Aerocoach and a rare Chairman Jonathan Berzas and 1951 Brill school bus. President Eva Hotard on hand with The Aerocoach was restored several staff members. The theme of this year’s Spring Fling was a tribute to Trailways’ 80 years of service, and several vintage mechanically by ABC Companies Trailways has been a major Trailways buses made the scene, including (left to right) a 1955 Flxible VL100, 1964 GM PD4106 and 956 some time ago, but in the past year GM PD4104. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 c Temsa and U.S. distributor CH Bus Sales parting ways WILMINGTON, Del. — Turk- CH Bus was delinquent on Temsa was planning to open other and we will remain the distrib- referral to a federal magistrate ish bus maker Temsa and its U.S. $7.7 million in payments for mo- Temsa North America in the U.S. utor until such time that we have res- judge for a mediation session distributor, CH Bus Sales, are un- torcoaches and parts, Temsa al- on June 20 to distribute its own olution,” Haggerty said in an email. within 60 days. They agreed to dergoing a messy divorce. leged in a December 2017 letter, motorcoaches. However, industry officials fa- seek a private mediator if the judge Temsa recently told CH Bus it according to documents filed in Michael Haggerty, chairman miliar with the matter disputed is not available. was terminating their eight-year- U.S. District Court for Delaware. and majority owner of CH Bus that assertion. They insisted that In the meantime, the parties old distribution agreement and also Temsa notified CH Bus on Sales, said the company also has while CH Bus can continue to sell stipulated that they would under- filed a lawsuit against CH Bus re- March 20 that it was terminating sued Temsa and that both parties any Temsa parts and vehicles it take settlement discussions over questing “declaratory relief ” to their distribution agreement “be- agreed to mediate the matter. He owns it can no longer do anything the financial issues. protect “products and collateral” cause of CH’s material breaches said the issue would remain unre- under the Temsa name. In its March 20 notice to CH that are in the possession of the Las and failure to cure the same during solved pending mediation. 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FAST Act by directing FMCSA to board chair and former National Under the FAST Act, Congress conduct two comprehensive re- School Transportation Association also directed FMCSA to halt its ports on the effects of raising the president, recommended that a attempts to raise the insurance limits and provide the results to congressional committee direct limits on private commercial pas- legislators before proceeding. the Federal Motor Carrier Safety senger carriers that NSTA and the The first study, which was com- Administration not to move for- United Motorcoach Association pleted in March, investigated crash- ward with implementing a hike in said would have quadrupled costs es, injuries and fatalities involving insurance limits for private school for both the private school bus and over-the-road buses and school bus and motorcoach companies. motorcoach industries. buses. The study analyzed if com- Krapf testified before the During his recent testimony panies of various sizes had ade- House Transportation and Infra- before the subcommittee, Krapf quate insurance to cover the claims. structure Committee’s Highways said FMCSA seeks to raise the It also analyzed if insurance and Transit Subcommittee on be- limits “despite the lack of compel- affects the behavior and safety re- half of the UMA and NSTA. ling evidence demonstrating cur- cord of motor carriers, if insur- Congress passed the Fixing rent minimum limits.” ance reduces the rate of crashes, America’s Surface Transportation Krapf, chairman of the board and anticipated impacts of in- (FAST) Act in December 2015 to for school bus and motorcoach creasing insurance premiums. provide the first long-term fund- company Krapf Group in West A second study, which Krapf Dale Krapf (left at table), immediate past UMA board chair and former ing of highway infrastructure in Chester, Pa., added that the Trans- said to NSTA’s and UMA’s knowl- National School Transportation Association president, testified before the more than a decade. portation Committee “wisely” edge has yet to be completed, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Highways and Tran- sit Subcommittee on behalf of the UMA and NSTA. 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