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Orléans Express adds 11 MCI® J4500 coaches

SCHAUMBURG, IL — August 4, 2011 — Groupe Orléans Express, Eastern Canada's largest coach transportation company, has added 11 MCI J4500s to its fleet serving the Greater Montréal community.

The 21-year-old company serves the Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island provinces notably the Montréal-Québec City corridor, with departures nearly every hour each day. The intercity services are operated under the Orléans Express (Québec) and Acadian (Maritime provinces) brand names while the urban transportation services operated for municipalities around Montréal are under Orléans Urbain - Lanau Bus based in Repentigny and Terrebonne.

Groupe Orléans Express took five new and six pre-owned J4500 coaches, and equipped them with bike racks. Eight of the coaches also feature wheelchair lifts. The coaches will be used by Lanau Bus which operates city transit services in Les Moulins, L'Assomption and the City of Joliette.

Groupe Orléans Express is also active in the charter bus services, school bus transportation, parcel transportation and maintenance services. The company is 75 percent owned by Keolis S.A, a French transportation company present in 12 countries, and 25 percent by Sylvain Langis its President and CEO. The company transports annually more than 1.7 million passengers and almost a million parcels with a total staff of 900, and operates a fleet of 400 buses including 130 coaches.

Motor Coach Industries, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, is the largest manufacturer of intercity highway coaches for the tour, charter, line-haul, scheduled service, commuter transit and conversion markets in the U.S. and Canada. The company also operates seven sales centers and eight service centers in the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, MCI is the industry's leading supplier of aftermarket parts for most makes and models.

Press contact: Patricia Plodzeen Public Relations, 847-283-0883; or Motor Coach Industries Marketing Department, 847-285-2035.

 

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