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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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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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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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CNBC: Motorcoach Industry Looks to Congress to Keep Buses on the Road ...
“It’s just a disaster,” Pantuso said. “Not only do these companies, and these families who have been running them for multi-generations, lose out, but the American public loses out because they lose a major part of the transportation network.”
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CBNC: Bus Industry Lobbies for Billions in Next Coronavirus Stimulus Package
So far, the businesses haven’t received aid from Washington, but owners are hoping the situation will be different with the latest stimulus package currently being debated in Congress.
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ABA Foundation Coach Builder Survey Shows Second Quarter Sales Decimated by COVID-19 Effect
There was an overall 83 percent decrease in sales year over year.
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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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