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KLTS’s new 56-passenger bus San Diego, Calif. — The KLTS Limousine & LJ Transportation teams have announced that they have added a 56-passenger Setra to their growing fleet of 50+ vehicles. President Mike Muhsin says this is the latest in the company’s long term plan of becoming San Diego’s top operator.
“Breaking in to the motorcoach side of the business is risky, when we have been heavily focused on sedan, SUV and van work for years,” explains Muhsin. “It’s a risk I see the benefit in taking as I can say we are the largest operator in town offering a motorcoach in-house.”
KLTS hopes to capture large meetings and events in the San Diego region utilizing the full-range fleet through in-house accounts and affiliate work.
Visit kltstransportation.com for more information.
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Middletown, Pa. — Premiere #1 Limousine Service lands three listings in the 2017 Central Penn Business Journal’s Book of Lists. The goal of the book is to create a comprehensive source of information for business in Central Pennsylvania. The print edition of this year’s Book of Lists includes 126 lists and 1,200 companies and top executives.
Premiere appears on the following lists:
- No. 2 out of 20 on the list of Fastest Growing Companies
- No. 8 out of 17 on the list of Veteran-Owned Businesses
- No. 6 out of 10 on the list of Transportation Companies
“Central Pennsylvania is full of successful businesses in all industries,” says Douglas Rydbom, Sr. Member of Premiere #1 Limousine Service. “To be listed on not one but three lists is an honor. We hope to continue to keep growing and remain a top contender in this region.”
Visit Premiere1Limousine.com for more information.
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Alexandria, Va. — The United Motorcoach Association (UMA) expressed its gratitude to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for halting an advance notice of proposed rulemaking that was seeking information to justify requiring higher minimum insurance levels for commercial motor carriers. In withdrawing the measure, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) noted that there was insufficient data to indicate that an increase was necessary.
UMA members have been fighting this regulatory overreach for more than two years, prioritizing a withdrawal of this measure each year since it was first proposed in November of 2014. A great deal of credit for this commonsense reversal is due to the work of House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster and Representative Scott Perry (R-PA), who worked tirelessly to pass the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act in 2015. The FAST Act included provisions to ensure that minimum insurance limits for commercial motor carriers could not be raised absent a complete analysis that supported any increase. That measure helped fend off what would have been an expensive, burdensome and unwarranted mandate on the nation's bus and motorcoach companies.
"We had the facts on our side, and some great allies in the House, and we got the word out to our members," said Dale Krapf, chairman of UMA and Krapf's Coaches. "Now, two years later, the FMCSA's action represents a victory for every bus and motorcoach operator, and it shows the power and importance of advocating for our industry and pushing back against regulatory overreach at every turn. We owe a debt of gratitude to Chairman Shuster and Congressman Perry for codifying the need for further study and to Secretary Elaine Chao for her decisive action to halt this poorly conceived plan from moving forward."
Visit uma.org for more information.
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