Saturday, September 29, 2012

MBT Annual Meeting Saturday October 27th

The MBT will take place Saturday October 27th at the museum in Hershey. The annual meeting registration form and election ballot have been mailed to all members, those need to be returned in the envelopes enclosed in the mailing no later than Monday October 22nd.


The agenda for the day is as follows:

Social period with coffee & danish served 8:30-10:00AM

20% off any bus related item in our gift shop.

Lakeland Bus Lines will have a new MCI coach on display in front of the museum, along with their former 4515 (given to the MBT several years ago) and other Lakeland artifacts are planned for display.

10:00-11:15- The first portion of the annual meeting begins with our guest speaker, Maureen Leo, VP of Lakeland Bus Lines sharing the history of their 60 years of operation.

11:15-11:30-50/50 raffle and door prizes

11:30-12:30- the business & financial portion of the annual meeting, with flood & fleet recap.

12:30- full buffet luncheon catered by "What If", one of Hershey's outstanding restaurants.

2:15-Bus fan tour to charter bus destinations in the Lancaster area and will also check out what's new at Red Rose Transit (Lancaster) & Lebanon Transit. Coach provided by Lakeland Bus Lines. Bus returns to Museum approx. 5:30PM

The museum gif shop will be open till 5:00PM. For those who do not want to go on the bus tour, the George M. Sage annex will be available to view. There will be no transportation provided but you may drive your own vehicles to the annex.

Hope to see you October 27th

Monday, September 17, 2012

Indian Trails Coaches Now "In The Loop"

From Bus Ride magazine, here's an article on how Indian Trails, a Michigan based motorcoach company that has been in operation for over 100 years is now one of the first companies in the country to install technology in 17 of their coaches used in line run service throughout the state to enable passengers who are hard of hearing to clearly hear the PA system announcements made by the bus driver. Indian Trails teamed up with the Michigan DOT on this project.


http://busride.com/2012/09/motorcoaches-are-now-in-the-loop/