| ABOUT US |
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| Thomas Bazow |
Patrick 0'Brian |
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| August 2000 saw the birth of a new motorcoach company in the Ft. Wayne area. Excursions Trailways was begun by Thomas Bazow and Patrick O'Brian. They saw a need to provide quality motorcoach service to the Ft. Wayne area. Their mission is to, "Give excellent customer service by providing clean, well maintained coaches and courteous, professional drivers." |
| Since the Fall of 2000, Excursions, Inc. has grown from one coach to six luxury Prevost motorcoaches. Each coach is equipped with: Cell Phone, DVD, CD, and VCR players, and a clean restroom. Most coaches can have one or two tables added if desired by the group. All of the coaches are 1999 and newer. In October of 2007 we purchased another motorcoach company in Ottawa, OH. We have 4 VanHool motorcoaches at the Ohio location which are 1999 to 2005. |
| "You'll appreciate our quality, service, and experience." |
| HOW TO CHOOSE A BUS COMPANY |
| How to safely and securly decide when it comes to selecting a motorcoach company! Just because the coach or the price is appealing from the outside doesn't mean the company is offering the same on the inside. Make sure your decision is based on a few simple - but critically important facts about what goes on inside the company; day to day and year-in, year-out! |
| Knowing what a for-hire transport company looks like on the inside can make a huge difference in the quality, services, and more importantly, the safety and security of your group's next travel event. |
| Start by taking a look at the Company's current and federally documented safety service records. This is available to all travelers seeking for-hire motorcoach transportation. |
| Where; How; and, What! It's easy to obtain, through comparative government ratings, information to help you locate and review critical data for a for-hire passenger transport company's current as well as historical safety and management oversight practices. |
| Visit the United States' Department of Transportation (USDOT) website: http://www.ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/Passenger/home.asp This federal maintained website allows visitors to review data by searching for any legally registered company using any of the following searches: Location (company's base of operation), Type of Vehicle (Passenger bus), Name (The transportation company's name.) After a search is completed, you can review all the data the USDOT has collected for that particular company. |
| How to Assess a Motorcoach Company's Current & Historical Safety Data |
| 1. The USDOT grades all "legitimate" (legally registered with federal agencies) for-hire passenger transportation companies by using a three-tiered Safety Ranking: Satisfactory; Conditional; and, Unsatisfactory. Never select any for hire passenger transport company that possesses anything less than a Satisfactory Safety Rating! |
| 2. Once your search is complete, place the PC's mouse over the company's name, click and then view it's "Safety Scores," i.e. its key safety ratios, or travel incidents, driver training and ability, and its management oversight strengths or weaknesses, which are graded numerically; here, the lower the grading number assigned - The Better! |
| 3. On this same page, there is another link which takes visitors to a special section called "Safer". Safer provides a "snapshot" of the company's safety history. You can also review "Insurance Coverage/History as well. |
| What you Don't See But Should Know! |
| Each Trailways Motorcoach Company is required to maintain higher safety and security performance levels that are more strenuous than the levels required and performed by the USDOT's Safety Review and Ranking processes. |
| All Trailways Motorcoach Companies are not only required to possess USDOT's highest safety ranking, but must also seek to maintain a Number One (#1) Safety Rating, certified by the USDOD (United States Department of Defense) as well. |
| For Military, government, and troop-transportation needs, the US Department of Defense demands excellence in service, reliability, safety, and security; thus, uses only those for-hire passenger transport companies that are USDOD Certified! Every USDOD Certified for-hire passenger transport company must undergo re-certification annually through an intense, rigorous safety and security audit, mandated by the USDOD. |
| In North America, only one of ten (1 of 10) motorcoach companies ever achieve this rigorous, USDOD Safety Certification designation. The entire network of Trailways transport companies has acknowledged their increased commitment to passenger safety and vehicle security by maintaining the USDOD Safety Certification. |
| Security Partners |
| Partnering with the US Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration, Trailways continues to further its mission to safely transport passengers. Team Trailways motorcoaches are now equipped with the latest GPS security tracking technology, which were federally funded by bus grants awarded to Team Trailways for ongoing efforts to help deter and prevent terrorist and other acts of violence against our passengers. |
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