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ripta, thanks for the info.

ripta42, do you know the contract is worth?

The top five are--New Flyer, Gillig, Orion, NABI and NovaBus.

There's a news article on the Roswell Daily Record website from Monday that mentions that MTS still owes $1.4 million from the $2 million loan it received from the city of Roswell. The last payment th ...

If anyone is interested, Fisher Coachworks has a video detailing and showing a demonstration of a mock-up model, of their new lightweight hybrid bus. Very ugly looking.

Updated news on MTS--I just saw a news item on a business news website, that MTS filed for bankruptcy, late last week. It made no mention of how much financial trouble they're in, but said that they'r ...

Does anyone have any credible info that, MTS is once again financially strong? Also, is the big foreign bus order, the same one that I heard about four months with Honduras?

How can you talk about MTS's low floor extreme model, when they probably don't have the money to send any sales reps to the APTA Transit Conference and Expo in October? I've seen no indications that t ...

The main reason MTS is still in business is that they have deversified their
business operations. It you do a Google search on them, you're find a business profile on Goliath Company Profile, updated ...

What I heard from some of my contacts in the transit bus industry, is that the new ownership will keep the status quo for the time being. What they should and need to do is open another manufacturing ...

It's official, Gillig is under new ownership. They were purchased by a Chicago equity firm. Details on today's Metro magazine's website.

Does anyone know when NJ Transit is going to be receiving the first delivery of their new NABI buses? I thought they were due last month.

Thanks Evan for the info. There's two websites in Canada that have several photos of the "Victoria".

Evan, just got my copy of your new book today. It's very informative and has a lot of great photos. I was wondering why you didn't make mention, or include the "Victoria" RTS model that has ...

I think El Dorado National does bid their Axess bus for transit bus contracts, but I think they're always are lowballed by their main competitors--NFI, Gillig, Orion and NABI. Does anyone stop and thi ...