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MOTORCOACH EXPO 2018 Or Due to Its Location, It Welcomes Matej Said December 1, 2017 Texas history and culture to greet Expo 2018 attendees UNITED MOTORCOACH ASSOCIATION SAN ANTONIO — Truly deep vention Center hosts more than in the heart of Texas, San Antonio 300 events and 750,000 conven- is situated farther south than San tion delegates each year. Diego and the southern borders of “Approximately 70 percent of Arizona and New Mexico. Despite our visitors are leisure travelers,” MOTORCOACH EXPO 2018 or due to its location, it welcomes Matej said. “We do not currently 29.7 million visitors annually. have a mechanism for tracking the Among next year’s first visi- exact amount of those visitors who tors will be those attending the arrive via motorcoach. United Motorcoach Association “However, we can report that Motorcoach Expo 2018 at the the destination works with more Henry B. Gonzalez Convention than 140 motorcoach companies Center on Jan. 6-10. who bring in tens of thousands of “San Antonio is truly a unique visitors to San Antonio each year.” city that offers a rich and varied San Antonio, the seventh-larg- experience for all travelers,” said est and third-fastest-growing city Casandra Matej, president and in the U.S., has a history that chief executive officer of Visit San stretches back for centuries. Antonio. “The Alamo City’s en- When the first Spanish Catho- ticements range from culture, culi- lic explorers and missionaries ar- nary and history to family fun and rived in 1691, Payaya Native outdoor adventure.” Americans who called the area The Henry B. Gonzalez Con- CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 c Factory, electric buses in The San Antonio River Walk is a city park and network of walkways along the banks of the San Temsa’s future U.S. plans Antonio River, one story beneath the streets of the city. It is lined with bars, shops, restaurants, FARIBAULT, Minn. — Grow- The Temsa nature, public artwork and five historic missions. Photo by Bob Howen for Visit San Antonio. ing market acceptance and healthy TS 45 accounted transportation demand delivered for more than another record year for Temsa mo- half of the 200 Chicago party bus ordinance angers operators torcoaches in North America. new Temsa CHICAGO — A city of Chica- ident and chief operating officer buses to have a licensed security Continued growth is anticipat- coaches sold by go ordinance designed to crack of Chicago Classic Coach. guard and cameras on board if ed for 2018 while the years further CH Bus in 2017, down on illegal party buses has Ekberg said the officers claimed there are more than 15 passengers ahead may bring a Temsa factory he said. been causing headaches for legal the bus wasn’t USDOT-certified, and if there is alcohol on the bus, and electric motorcoach to the U.S. “There has Duane Geiger motorcoach operators. “even though our USDOT numbers or if the bus plans to make multi- “We will probably sell 15- to been a strong In their zeal to rid the city of are all over the bus.” They also cited ple stops at venues where alcohol 20-percent more new units than we economy that has created a lot of unlicensed party bus operators the company for not displaying em- is consumed. did in 2016,” said Duane Geiger, demand for transportation needs. and rein in an increase in violent blems that weren’t legally required The problem is that alcohol president and chief executive offi- Everyone is prospering.” incidents caused by their passen- and for not having a Chicago char- isn’t just sold in bars and night- cer of CH Bus Sales LLC, distrib- A broad product range — 30-, gers, law enforcement agencies ter license, which isn’t required be- clubs, but also at museums, the- utor of the Turkish-built Temsa 35- and 45-foot motorcoaches — have been ticketing even law-abid- cause the company is based in a aters, hotels and airports. That vehicles. positions Temsa for further suc- ing operators, often for bogus vio- suburb, not in the city. means if a charter bus were trans- “It is the third year of our 45- cess in 2018, Geiger said. lations that routinely are over- “We got out of four of the tick- porting a student group to muse- foot bus. Introducing a new prod- “I think we will continue to in- turned in court. ets, but I have to go back to court ums that sell alcohol, the bus uct takes some time and there has crease our sales volume with the “City officials said they were in January on the other one,” Ek- would be required to have a guard been market acceptance,” Geiger Temsa products. We are looking not going after good operators, yet berg said. and security cameras that can said. “We are at a price point that is forward to a strong year and I am we were tagged for five viola- One of the most controversial monitor the interior of the bus. very attractive and that has gotten not aware of anything that would tions,” said Carl Ekberg, vice pres- elements of the ordinance requires CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 c the attention of a lot of operators.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 c Let an MCI pre-owned coach pro find the right fit for your fleet. 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M O VIN G F O R W A R D www.abc-companies.com Bus & Motorcoach News INDUSTRY NEWS December 1, 2017 3 Fire destroys Virginia bus museum, vintage vehicles ROANOKE, Va. — The Commonwealth The Virginia Museum of Transportation, Coach and Trolley Museum, home to sever- which recently took the Commonwealth al vintage buses, was destroyed in a fire Coach and Trolley Museum under its um- along with many of its vehicles. brella, has included a link to a donation sec- The fire consumed the 44,000-square- tion on its website, www.vmt.org. foot museum in the early morning hours of Fitzpatrick announced in July he would November 1. No one was injured. be retiring from the transportation museum The museum was opened in 1999 and at the end of this year. He planned to spend housed transit coaches collected by the Vir- more time at the trolley museum. But at 71 ginia Museum of Transportation. years old, he said, “I can’t re-invent the mu- Bev Fitzpatrick, executive director of the seum. It’s a terrible way to go out.” transportation museum and president of the Although a full list of the vehicles de- trolley museum, said the future of the muse- stroyed or damaged by the fire wasn’t im- um was unclear because the building and mediately available, museum curator Fred several vehicles were destroyed. Donaher said the following buses survived: However, he said several buses parked in • 1991 Gillig Phantom a yard outside the building survived, and • 1997 Gillig Phantom they’ll be moved to the transportation muse- • 2000 Orion V (DASH) The Commonwealth Coach and Trolley Museum in Roanoke, Va., home to several vintage buses, um until another building is found. was destroyed in a fire along with at least 13 vehicles. Several other buses survived the fire. • 1962 TDH-5302 “We are getting information together • 1973 TDH-3302 right now on the fleet,” Fitzpatrick said three “It still needs to be restored, but it appar- in the fire. The buses were insured for trans- • 2001 Gillig Phantom days after the fire. “We were not allowed ently made it though the fire,” Fitzpatrick porting the public, but not for physical • 1998 New Flyer D40LF into the building until last night and it ap- said. damage. • 1982 GMC RTS T70-604 pears nothing survived. We lost 13 buses A museum volunteer described some of The museum was not well known, but its • 1989 TMC RTS T70-206 and had three more damaged. We believe the casualties, including a tangle of black- contents attracted bus enthusiasts and other • (2) 1947 Mack C-41 with help we can find the parts to restore ened metal he said was a rare 1955 split-lev- visitors from around the country. Nonprofit • 1953 Mack C-37 them.” el design Greyhound Scenicruiser. organizations used the buses, and they were • (2) 1948 GM PD-3751 He told a local television station that the Toward the back of the building lay the also brought out for community events, such • 1974 AM General museum has an old trolley that originally remains of a 1959 Southern Coach that was as parades. • 1970 GMC PD-4903 was a Roanoke railway and electric compa- in service at Camp Lejeuene in 1959. They served as shuttles for Explore • 1969 GMC TDH-3301 ny trolley that ran on rails in the streets of A massive collection of tools and parts Park, Mill Mountain Zoo, the National • 1990 Flxible Metro #184 Roanoke. used to maintain the fleet was also destroyed D-Day Memorial and churches. • Possibly salvageable: 1991 Orion I 4 December 1, 2017 Bus & Motorcoach News NTSB says fatigue contributed to deadly California crash WASHINGTON — The Na- ity work.
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