Coach USA
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A Coach USA bus in Newburgh, New York.
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| Slogan | Driven to Be the Best! |
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| Parent | Stagecoach Group |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | 160 Route 17 North Paramus, NJ 07652 |
| Locale | United States |
| Service area | New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago metropolitan areas, Southern Tier of New York, southern Wisconsin |
| Service type | Local, commuter, charter, contract, and yellow school bus service, Megabus |
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Northeast Division (excluding Megabus):
North Central Division (excluding Megabus and school buses):
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| Operator | Various Coach USA companies, see Divisions below |
| Chief executive | Linda Burtwistle |
| Website | Coach USA |
Northeast Division (excluding Megabus):
North Central Division (excluding Megabus and school buses):
Coach USA, LLC is a holding company for various American transportation service providers providing scheduled intercity bus service, local and commuter bus transit, city sightseeing, tour, yellow school bus, and charter bus service. It is a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group. Coach USA and sister company Coach Canada are the second-largest motorcoach operators in the US and Canada.
Coach USA traces its history back to 1922 as Lackawanna Bus and later Consolidated Bus Lines, a small outfit operating local service in Bergen County, New Jersey and later along the Jersey Shore and throughout the New York metropolitan area founded by Jim and Denis Gallagher.Community Coach, today the headquarters of Coach USA, began operations in 1958 under Denis's brother, John. The latter took over the operations of Consolidated Bus Lines, using the operating authority of another company that the Gallagher family had purchased in Paramus, New Jersey three years prior; through other acquisitions by the Gallagher family, six of these companies would become subsidiaries of Coach USA at its inception in 1995, when Frank Gallagher sold the firms to Notre Capital Ventures.
At its inception, Coach USA consisted of six companies: Suburban Trails, Community Coach, Leisure Line, and Adventure Trails in New Jersey, Gray Line of San Francisco, and Arrow Stage Line in Arizona (not to be confused with unaffiliated Arrow Stage Lines). Listing on the NASDAQ in 1996 under ticker TOUR, and later switching to the under stock ticker CUI, Coach USA, under the leadership of Richard Kristinik, would expand quickly, acquiring Progressive Transportation Services Inc. a contractor of municipal transit systems in Upstate N.Y. Coach USA acquired additional companies throughout the United States in the next three years to expand to over 5,000 buses and many more taxicabs, as its acquisitions also included yellow cab firms throughout the United States. During this time, the Gallagher family would start another company, Student Transportation of America, based in the area of its Coast Cities operation.
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