Latest Motorcoach Council news and information
An office on the road

An office on the road

Go ahead and watch your favorite flick, edit that spreadsheet, and check your email while onboard. With hands free you can use your iPhone, Blackberry, or laptop safely while you drive...unlike the juggling act some folks attempt in gridlock!

Our mission

Our mission

The Motorcoach Council is North America's industry-wide initiative to promote public awareness about the availability, selection, usage and benefits of motorcoach transportation.

Working together

Working together

The Motorcoach Council aims to partner with other existing, like-minded, not-for-profit entities that share a concern for reducing the carbon footprint of fellow North Americans, reducing emissions, carpooling, and taking cars off the road.

Today's coach is surprisingly comfortable and luxurious

Today's coach is surprisingly comfortable and luxurious

Modern coaches are equipped with luxurious fabrics, supple leather, Wi-Fi and other modern amenities superior to first class air, but without the middle seats!

Sit back and relax

Sit back and relax

Traveling by coach is a memorable experience that enables you to read the paper, chat with a passenger, play games, or just sit back and enjoy the ride while the country's majestic landscape peacefully rolls by your window.

 

Coach Travel

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Coach travel is more ecologically sound than planes, trains and passenger cars. Thanks to emerging technology, coaches run cleaner engines, use alternative fuels, and reduce emissions. Read More

Clean Fuel Technology

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Today’s clean bio-diesel systems are so finely calibrated that any biodiesel fuel blend must come from the highest quality blend stocks…soybeans, the gold standard for biodiesel.

Driving the Economy

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Motorcoach traveler and tourist demand generates more than $55 billion annually in economic transactions. Read More

We Care About Your Safety

t2145-26-2-pt-seatbeltDue to modern technology, today's motorcoaches are not only comfortable and luxurious, they're safe too! View Safety Brochure...Read More

Modern Hybrid-Electric Commuter Coaches

a-mcigogreencoachUse the latest clean-diesel engine technology, and deliver impressive power, lower noise levels and significantly reduced carbon emissions. At the same time, passengers sit high above traffic in plush forward-facing, high-back reclining seats with LED reading lamps and overhead airflow controls, a more plush, yet greener alternative then the city bus ridden yesterday.

Motorcoach Industry Supports March of Dimes: Miles for Babies Program

miles_for_babies_home_f2Operators of the Motorcoach Council are joining the March of Dimes in its fight to help give all babies a healthy start with Miles for Babies! The Miles for Babies program enables the entire motorcoach industry, the opportunity to support the March of Dimes and become a champion for babies, by raising urgently needed funds to help prevent birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For more information or to sign up for this important program, visit www.milesforbabies.org.

Council raises $259,000 in seed money

Motorcoach Council Founding Partners
Thanks to the 90 new Founding Partners who have joined the Motorcoach Council, the organization was able to garner the support of key players, and provide the legs to begin development of the new consumer-facing campaign.

Community Development
The Council’s efforts will create jobs, increase spending in the tourism industry, and help get North Americans out of their homes and back on the road -- all of which will start putting money back into our economy.   

Did You Know?

  • Motorcoaches provide cost-effective mobility to millions of Americans at virtually no cost to taxpayers, unlike other transportation sectors
  • Motorcoaches emit the least carbon dioxide per passenger mile when compared to other forms of transportation
  • One motorcoach spending one night at a destination generates as much as $11,660 for that local economy in meals, lodging, and other spending
  • Motorcoaches account for 751 million passenger trips annually, moving more people in some years than commercial airlines do

What People Are Saying

"With escalating fuel costs, environmental concerns and national events that have caused travelers to recoil from air travel, society is ready, almost begging, for alternative modes of transportation."

"Through viable and affordable social media, as well as mainstream media channels, our industry has the resources to positively impact public perception on a national level."

"I appreciate the fact that the structure of the group is “operator-driven,” non-political, not tied to a specific trade organization or industry partner and is solely committed to growing and expanding the services we all provide."
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Benefits of Motorcoach Travel

  • Creates employment opportunities
  • Takes cars off the road
  • Reduces emissions
  • Reduces dependency on foreign oil
  • Lowers carbon footprint
  • No baggage fees or delays
  • No middle seats
  • Memorable experiece

Coming Events

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Motorcoach Council Marketing and Long-Term Funding Committees will meet in Denver, CO July 9-10, 2009.

Our Goal

Our Goal

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To educate and covert plane, train, and automobile drivers into coach passengers through the use of a strategic public awareness and educational outreach campaign, which communicates the luxury amenities, conveniences and ecological attributes only a coach provides.

If we effectively reposition the motorcoach and increase ridership by just 1-2 percent, we'll clean up our planet, foster community development and create new employment opportunities across N. America. 

Go Coach!

Go Coach!

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Motorcoaches are safer, quieter and more comfortable than virtually any other form of passenger transportation. They can conveniently pick you up anywhere there's asphalt, and deliver you without the hassles expected at airports or train stations.

Coaches provide modern entertainment systems, and trump automobile travel with the ultimate answer to "Are we there yet?" You guessed it...the lavatory. Next time, go coach!

Go Green!

Go Green!

Motorcoach Highway congestion costs U.S. taxpayers $72 billion/year in wasted resources & lost productivity.

Motorcoaches drastically reduce air, ground, water, and noise pollution.

Motorcoaches take 425 million cars off U.S. roads each year.

Motorcoaches deliver more than 146 passenger miles per gallon of fuel. (source www.buses.org)

Save Money!

Save Money

MotorcoachTraveling by coach is affordable and reliable. With the extra money you put back into your pocket at the pump, you'll have more ways to enjoy the savings once you arrive at your destination.

With historically volatile gas prices, and the inconveniences of air travel, millions of North Americans are choosing motorcoaches for business and personal use, as well as affinity group travel, sporting events and other adventures.


 

Save Planet

Save The Planet

MotorcoachMotorcoaches emit the least carbon dioxide per passenger mile when compared to other forms of transportation.

Shift your perception, and preserve our planet. By riding a coach, you can help save a glacier, one ride at a time.

All motorcoach statistics cited were derived from complete studies found on www.buses.org

Today's Polls

What I enjoy most about riding a coach
 

Motorcoach Council Video

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Motorcoach Awareness Campaign

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We Move People

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With today’s environmental concerns and challenges, motorcoaches are a perfect solution to mitigating surface congestion, reducing one’s carbon footprint, and transporting our fellow North Americans:
  • Students
  • Seniors
  • Mobility-impaired individuals
  • Religious groups
  • Tourists
  • Families
  • Government agents
  • Delegates 
  • Working professionals
  • Sports teams and affinity groups

Coach Manufacturers

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Who We Are

The Motorcoach Council is a non-political coalition of motorcoach operators, associations, manufacturers, suppliers and travel / tourism friends pulling together for the betterment of the industry as a whole, thus creating increased public awareness and use of coach transportation.

Common Goals

Because we share common goals to get people out of their cars, and to educate the public about the usage, selection and benefits of motorcoach transportation, we therefore support our partners (manufacturers, suppliers, vendors, operators, associations) in this public interest campaign designed to reach the traveling public with our messages and increase ridership. 

Join Us

To date, we have the full support of our industry's national associations: the UMA, ABA, and Motorcoach Canada, as well as 90 motorcoach operators, and numerous state associations. To partner with the Motorcoach Council, or to make a contribution to the Council’s consumer campaign, contact pr@motorcoachcouncil.org.