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CERTS Act Hits 200 Co-Sponsors in House
"Our industry has lost most of our nearly 100,000 jobs since March. Bus drivers, administrative personnel, mechanics, tour directors, accountants and all the other highly skilled workers that help this industry provide safe and reliant transportation want to come back
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Majority of Senate Supports CERTS Act to Help Decimated Motorcoach Industry
"The CERTS Act is the lifeline the industry needs to survive the pandemic," said Peter Pantuso, president & CEO of ABA.
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Bus Industry Asks Congress to Give Financial Assistance to Industries that Have Yet to be Helped
"This is not a theoretical situation of what will happen to the United States transportation system IF the motorcoach industry fails, but more of a real scenario of who will pick up our customers and rescue American citizens in harm's
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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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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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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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