A bump in the rate of bus accidents over the last nine months has induced Amtran to bring additional safety efforts to bear. There have been 16 preventable accidents during that period, most involving a still object like a sign or parked car, according to CEO Josh Baker, who talked about the issue this week, […]
In each of the past five years, one of the goals Amtran has listed in its annual enumeration of goals for the coming year has been for all employees to ride the bus periodically, to get a feel for what customers of the transit authority experience. A requirement for those periodic employee rides has never […]
Altoona Planning Commission member Larry Bilotto this week apologized to his colleagues for his vote to approve the land development plan for a Penn State Altoona construction project, saying that if he’d visited the site prior to that December meeting, he’d have learned information not highlighted by the college perhaps leading him to vote […]
Amtran plans to expand its rider discount for young people from summer only to year-round. The idea came from a driver who encountered a single mother with mu
Amtran on Wednesday lowered its age minimums for drivers and mechanics, after its insurance consortium granted permission for member transit agencies to do so,