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ABA Moves 2021 Marketplace to June in Baltimore

The ABA Board of Directors has voted to move the 2021 Marketplace and Busworld North America from January to June 18-22, 2021. 
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Majority of Senate Supports CERTS Act to Help Decimated Motorcoach Industry

ABA – the industry leader advancing North American motorcoach travel and tourism – thanks the 52 Senators who have signed up to co-sponsor the Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services (CERTS) Act in the Senate. 
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Bus Industry Asks Congress to Give Financial Assistance to Industries that Have Yet to be Helped

ABA is asking Congress to help the transportation sectors that received no direct assistance through the CARES Act before it provides a second round of direct assistance to other transportation sectors , such as the airlines. 
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Freightwaves: Pandemic Creating Existential Crisis for Nation’s Bus Industry

The question now facing the bus business is how many of those small operators who might eventually go under, or who have done so already, will come back. 
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ABA Legislative Update on the CERTS Act

We continue to need your help as we push through the final weeks of September. 
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Chauffeur Driven: ABA President Pens Moving Message After Stimulus Bill Fails…Again

Noting his frustration about the continued gridlock, ABA President & CEO Peter Pantuso posted a poignant message about the “death of an industry” on the association’s website. 
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The Free Lance-Star: GETTING THERE: Is This the End of the Motor Coach Industry?

The bus industry is not dead—companies are finding ways to survive, for now—but it has been severely pummeled by the pandemic. Like many others, the industry has been left to flutter in the breeze while haggling over relief packages continues 
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Death of an Industry

This all could have been avoided had Congress provided a lifeline to the motorcoach industry by passing the Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Sectors (CERTS) Act and delivered the much-needed money for the industry to survive this pandemic. 
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ABA Foundation Announces 2020-2021 Scholarship Winners

“This year, more than ever, we are proud to help our future leaders,” said ABA Foundation President Peter Pantuso. “In a year when most scholarships programs have seen a decline in applicants, our scholarship applications were the highest they have 
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Fox6: CERTS Act Offers $10B for Motorcoach Biz, ‘Feeling the (Pandemic) Pain’

According to the ABA, the industry has lost more than $11 billion since the pandemic hit in March, and without any help, could shutter 40% of small, family-owned transportation businesses by the end of this year. 
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