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Trailways Announces Estate Planning Program with Ferguson Financial Group

February 19, 2013 – Fairfax, VA – Strategic planning for the future of your company’s operational wealth and well-being is very important.  To help you, the Trailways corporate office and Ferguson Financial Group (FFG), a Preferred Affiliate, announce a new Trailways Financial Plan for all Trailways bus company owners.

Estate planning and business planning is a specialty of the firm.  The company current manages several charter bus company accounts and other types of transportation companies, such as trucking. 

This special Trailways Financial Plan is offered to Trailways Stockholders at a special reduced fee.  The rate includes one year of Estate Counseling as well as the full Comprehensive Plan.  Plan now for what lies ahead.

For a copy of the Overview and Circle of Services, please contact FFG about the Trailways Financial Plan:

Wayne L. Rector, LUTCF wayne@FFGStl.com

Financial Advisers, Ferguson Financial Group, LLC, St. Louis, MO T 314.821.0500/F 314.835.9219

www.FFGSTL.com

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New Affinity Program for Insurance Announced by Trailways

The Trailways Corporation and National Interstate Insurance unveiled a new risk and claims management program for Stockholders. Look for the news from Safety Claims and Litigations Services (SCLS), the affiliate responsible for the enhanced risk management benefits. Please call michelle.silvestro@natl.com 800-929-1500 x1213; Cell: 440-821-1961

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D.C. Inauguration: Checklist for Charter Groups

Team Trailways Charter Departments:

Groups Tours Visiting for Inauguration

Groups of 10 or more in need of assistance locating rooms, restaurants, transportation or other needs may contact Destination DC, the official convention and tourism corporation for Washington, DC, for support. Groups requiring 10 or more rooms may call Morgan Maravich at 202-789-7056 or email her at morgan.maravich@destinationdc.com.

For all groups arriving by motorcoach:

1) Apply for bus permit through the DMV.
2) Reserve bus parking for Inauguration Day (more information to come from the District Department of Transportation).
3) Stay updated on routing information and road closures at GoDCGo.com. For additional routing/road closure or parking information, please call 1-855-67-BUSES.
4) Register for traffic alerts on GoDCGo.com, District Department of Transportation news and National Capital Region updates.

For more information on the event, please call 1-855-67-BUSES for assistance.


Please Plan Today For What Is On The Way!
http://capitalregionupdates.gov  

 

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DSI Medical: Tops in Drug-Free Workplace Support to Bus Industry

Team Trailways: 

Reduce your risk and liability that comes along with drug & alcohol testing. Please consider DSI Medical, a Trailways Affiliate Member:

• 24 HOURS OR LESS turnaround time of your drug & alcohol test reporting (negative results);
• WHOLESALE NATIONAL PRICING, saving current clients as much as $7 to $20 per drug test;
• 24/7-365 SUPPORT for post-accident & suspicion testing, or assistance with locating collection sites.

Also, ask yourself if you currently receive these services:

  • Secure, ONLINE website to access & archive all reporting electronically;
  • NO ANCILLARY FEES;
  • ONE SIMPLE Invoice for Lab, Medical Review (MRO) services, and collection.

Are you worried about collection sites misplacing MRO documentation, requiring YOU to have to track it down, delaying turnaround time?  DSI Medical has a team of staff that will track them down for you.

Random Pool Selections are INCLUDED in your price per test with full reporting, including yearly MIS reports, on a quarterly or monthly basis, and available to print off our website.

DSI provides help to assure that your company meets its regulatory responsibilities, policy objectives, and are in full compliance in order to reduce risk & liability that comes along with drug & alcohol testing. 

So, if you're looking for a fresh start in 2013 with your drug testing provider and wish to reduce your costs for employee drug & alcohol testing, let DSI compare your current plan with theirs at no cost to you. 

PLEASE CONTACT: Roger Hornby, Vice President – Business Development 
Direct (Cell): 215.740.3689/ Toll Free: 800.770.0531 x1729
Email:  roger.hornby@dsimed.com  Website:  www.dsimed.com

 

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Nov. 16 Deadline: Stockholders – Request Your Free Aetna Health Insurance Quote

Team Colleagues

Deadline!  November 16, 2012

Trailways has affiliated with a well-known and respected health insurance provider: Aetna Insurance Company.

Please communicate with the Matt Lawrence of Aetna (Bridgeport) and explore this new extraordinary Trailways preferred program offered to your company. Your Company and Trailways may never be granted or afforded this opportunity again. 

If the network of US-based stockholders have not investigated this unique and affordable program that can ultimately benefit your company—no matter the size, budget or location—this Trailways program will not materialize!

Action – Please request a quote for your company before the deadline of interest/exploration period ends.

Every US-based Trailways Stockholder must respond by Friday, November 16, 2012. 

Contact: Matthew Lawrence, Business Development Director matt@bridgeportbenefits.com

Bridgeport for Aetna
Phone: 818.865.6800, ext. 119
www.bridgeportbenefits.com
 

Background:  For more than fifteen years, Stockholders affiliated with Trailways have requested, through Board leadership, that our corporation search and secure a reputable healthcare (insurance) provider, which could accommodate the diversity of Trailways stockholder demographics, e.g., our various locations (state governing laws), employee needs and operating budgets; A program with options that can conform and accommodate the varying company sizes which help to make-up our network.

Healthcare Reform is imminent.  Prepare your company.  Major financial changes will soon transform our country and will most assuredly, significantly impact your company’s cost of doing business.

Benefits of the Program: (read Brochure)

• Control Cost
Employers set their budget and choose their funding amounts.

• Employee Choice
Employees select from a menu of coverage options that meet their individual needs.

• Simplified Enrollment
Employees will have access to a dedicated benefits call center to ask questions and enroll in coverage.

• Paperless Transactions
Employee enrollments are sent electronically to carriers and employers receive payroll deduction reports.

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Advantage Funding: A consistent and reliable bus financing source

Autumn is here and Advantage Funding is here to help you with any coach, shuttle bus or limousine acquisitions you are planning.  Advantage Funding is a leading commercial vehicle leasing and financing company to the ground transportation industry.

Our turn-around time sets the standard in the industry with decisions in 24-48 hours on most transactions.  So for any last minute fleet additions due to increased business, replacement or a new contract, we can help get you the equipment you need quickly and producing revenue.  In addition, we also will refinance coaches so if you have a balloon due or are looking to lower your payment please let me know.

We are a Marubeni Group Company, the multinational company founded in 1858 with over 5,500 employees in 70 countries throughout the world.  This relationship has allowed Advantage to remain a consistent and reliable financing source.   We promise you outstanding service including honest and timely responses. 

If you are selling a coach, we can also assist your customer with their financing. 

In addition, we have an excellent selection of lease returns available that can be viewed at our website, www.advantagefund.com. (Click on the “Repossession Tab” to find this information). Please keep us in mind when making your next decision regarding financing and/or leasing. We promise to contribute to your success.  If you have any questions or would like to review your purchasing plans please do not hesitate to give me a call.  Thank you for your consideration.  I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Lee Steinberg, Regional Sales Manager  – Advantage Funding Commercial Capital Corp.

lsteinberg@advantagefunding.us

Trailways Affiliate Partner

847-253-8831

Arlington Heights, IL

 

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Give Us Your Thoughts, Please…

Thank you for your recent travel aboard Trailways. We hope you had a pleasant experience.

We would greatly appreciate your feedback and any other comments or suggestions that will help us better serve your future travel needs with Trailways. Thank you in advance for your patronage and allowing us to be a part of your recent journey.[xyz-cfm-form id=4]

3554 Chain Bridge Road, Suite 202, Fairfax, VA 22030

Voice-703-691-3052      Fax: 703-691-9047

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Trailways Announces New Program with Yellow Pages

Yellow Page Advertising:  Still Relevant

Fairfax, VA – October 16, 2012 -The Trailways Corporation and New Dimension M&R (NDM&R) announced today a new partnership for national Yellow Page print and internet advertising.  At a time when many are claiming that Yellow Pages are dying, the data show just the opposite: that response to Yellow Pages ads grew in 2010 at double-digit rates. 

And according to a 2011 metered advertising study by CRM Associates, an independent research firm, calls to Yellow Page print advertisers in the Bus Charter and Rental category, based on 133 different bus advertisements nationally, increased 17.3 percent (11 percent to Internet Yellow Page bus advertisers) last year. The partnership will bring lower costs and more services to you for your national Yellow Page Print and Yellow Page Internet advertising. Here are the advantages, research and contact information.

New Dimension M&R Will:

1. Change your current advertising program into a dynamic, cost effective, call-generating program;

2. Offers all Stockholders a 3% to 5% discount on any and all of their yellow page/telephone directory advertising, including 10% off internet listings;

3. Provide a complimentary pricing analysis, upon request, to any interested Stockholders to illustrate potential cost-savings;

4. Enable you to work with one designated ad rep for any directory you place advertising in: AT&T, Verizon, Yellow Book, or other local telephone directories, including your Yellow Page Internet ads;

The contact is Mark Flanagan, m.flanagan@ndmr.com New Dimension M&R 1-800-315-3057 ext. 12.  He has been authorized by Trailways to contact operators.  Participation on your part if voluntary.

The new program was announced on Oct. 4 and reviewed on a national webinar with Trailways operators on Oct. 11.   See the Yellow Pages News Story and research links on our website.  

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Operators: Urgent Federal Exemption Request Help Needed on Driver Log Regulation

Drivers to log as off-duty brief stops:  Carriers at Risk on Safety Ratings
 
Trailways Company Owners:  Gene Berardi, President/CEO of Adirondack, New York and Pine Hill Trailways, NY asks for your immediate help.  FMCSA has published for comment Adirondack Trailways' request for an (industry) exemption to the federal regulation (49 C.F.R. Part 395.8(c)) that requires drivers to log as off-duty the brief stops made for boarding passengers and/or baggage, etc.  He believes many carriers are not yet aware that they are at risk.  He seeks your support before it is too late.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 31, 2012. The link for submitting a public comment in support of this exemption is:
 http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=FMCSA-2012-0268-0002

(It will take 10 minutes to file online — just replace your company name in this Comment.  If you have trouble with the Submit button, try removing your email, which is not required.)

 

The link for the Federal Register public notice is:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-10-01/html/2012-24138.htm

Filed online by Trailways on behalf of Stockholders 10/24/12:

The Trailways corporation representing 80 U.S. Trailways bus companies, requests an industry exemption to the federal regulation (49 C.F.R. Part 395.8(c)) that requires drivers to log as off-duty the brief stops made for boarding passengers and/or baggage, etc. 

Trailways requests that these drivers be exempted from the requirement to enter a change-in-duty status on the daily log for breaks in driving time of 10-minutes or less, for the limited purpose of picking up or setting off passengers, baggage, or small express packages. Such time would not be considered a change of duty status for the purposes of 49 CFR 395.8(c).

The "exemption" is a common industry practice that was approved and authorized in a rulemaking interpretation requested by Greyhound in 1996.  According to FMCSA, this interpretation was somehow not included in its 1997 compilation, so it is currently no longer an exemption, and has not been since 1997.  Greyhound supports the current request by Trailways, which became more important during 2011, when law enforcement and DOT agents began writing this practice as violations, which now affect a carrier's system safety ratings in the FMCSA’s public record. 

Thank you.

 

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Certification for Sustainable Transportation Program Launches; Origins at Univ. of Vermont

Certification for Sustainable Transportation's (CST) has launched its online program.  It is designed to help improve economic, environmental, and energy efficiency within the passenger transportation sector.

The CST is a direct outgrowth of work that began at the University of Vermont (UVM) in 2005 and now houses the eRating certification, driver trainings, and an array of awareness and education programs.

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Buses: the greenest travel on earth

A pilot test with Trailways operators is in progress.  Meetings between Trailways and the CST have been positive. 

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