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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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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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As Hurricane Laura Barrels Toward Gulf, Motorcoaches Mobilize to Evacuate Citizens

Now who will answer the call to help evacuate if the buses aren't running? 
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Motorcoach Industry Thanks Sen. Susan Collins for Leadership in Efforts to Save Industry

Washington, DC. - The presidents from the two leading motorcoach associations - Peter Pantuso, president & CEO of the American Bus Association and Larry Killingsworth, president & CEO of the United Motorcoach Association - released a statement praising Sen. Susan 
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New Report Details Motorcoach Industry’s Dire Situation

DePaul University's Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development recently released a report outlining the dire situation currently facing the motorcoach industry. 
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ABA’s Women in Buses, BUSRide Create eBook on Women in the Industry and COVID-19

How COVID-19 Has Killed Our Industry: Letters to Congress from the Women Who Power America's Motorcoach Industry. 
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ABA Welcomes House Bill to Help Decimated Industry

The American Bus Association (ABA) – the industry leader advancing North American motorcoach travel and tourism – welcomed the introduction in the U.S. House of Representatives of the Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services (CERTS) Act by Reps. Darin LaHood 
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WashPost: America’s 3,000 Bus Companies Make Appeal for Economic Relief amid Pandemic

Bus operators and trade groups have been knocking on doors of members of Congress for months. 
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Associations Come Together to Urge Congress to Support CERTS Act

More than 30 associations came together to urge Congressional leaders to support the CERTS Act, introduced jointly by Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). 
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Tell Your Senators to Support and Co-Sponsor S. 4150, the CERTS Act

This bipartisan legislation would provide $10 billion in emergency economic relief funding, in the form of grants and other economic assistance, through the Treasury, to motorcoach operators, school bus companies, U.S. flag passenger vessel operators, and other U.S. transportation service 
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