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* Portable 2 - Road Supervisor/Operations Supervisor - Formerly Dispatcher Use (Same Person) (see Note 2) '''[Verified]''' - Does driver training. Handles most GPS issues.'''[Verified]'''
 
* Portable 2 - Road Supervisor/Operations Supervisor - Formerly Dispatcher Use (Same Person) (see Note 2) '''[Verified]''' - Does driver training. Handles most GPS issues.'''[Verified]'''
  
* Portable 3 - Heard 3/13 - Appears to be Marketing & Planning Director - Formerly Buildings & Grounds Assistant who is now 123 '''[Verified]'''
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* Portable 3 - Heard 3/13 - Appears to be Maintenance - Possibly from Inclined Plane - Formerly Buildings & Grounds Assistant who is now 123 '''[Verified]'''
  
 
* Portable 4 - Mechanics/Garage '''[Verified]'''
 
* Portable 4 - Mechanics/Garage '''[Verified]'''

Revision as of 19:14, 19 September 2013

Urban Division

Portables (mainly Supervisor and Above Units)

  • Portable 1 - Appears to be broken into below units[Speculation]
  • Portable 123 - Buildings & Grounds Assistant - Was 3 New 1/13 [Verified]
  • Portable 124 - Ebensburg Maintenance (Mechanics/Technicians) - New as of 1/13
  • Portable 125 - TC Custodian - New as of 1/13
  • Portable 127 - Maintenance Director (Mechanics/Garage (Portable 4)) (See Note 4) [Verified]
  • Portable 128 - Buildings & Grounds Supervisor (Bus Cleaners & Transit Center Maintenance) [Verified]
  • Portable 129 - Purchasing/Maintenance Manager Was 9 [Verified]
  • Portable 2 - Road Supervisor/Operations Supervisor - Formerly Dispatcher Use (Same Person) (see Note 2) [Verified] - Does driver training. Handles most GPS issues.[Verified]
  • Portable 3 - Heard 3/13 - Appears to be Maintenance - Possibly from Inclined Plane - Formerly Buildings & Grounds Assistant who is now 123 [Verified]
  • Portable 4 - Mechanics/Garage [Verified]
  • Portable 5 - Reassigned Dispatcher Use 4/12 - Former Operations Manager [Formerly Operations Supervisor/Road Supervisor & Formerly Dispatch Supervisor but took over Portable 9's jobs] - Handles various GPS issues [Verified] Left Company
  • Portable 6 - Reissued to new Operations Manager (Formerly Dispatcher Use by another person) [Verified] (Previous Dispatcher left the company)
  • Portable 7 - Currently Manager of Safety, Security, & Risk Management (Formerly Retired Director of Operations, Safety, Security, & Risk Management [Verified] For a brief time around May 2010, he was removed from Director of Ops and made Saf, Sec, RM, only, due to Ops and S,S,RM being made separate departments.
  • Portable 8 - Director of Operations (Formerly Operations Manager) - Handled some GPS issues such as wrong schedule in GPS unit [Verified]
  • Portable 9 - Was Purchasing/Service Manager (Maintenance) Now is P129 - was Retired Road Supervisor [Verified]/Operations Supervisor
  • Portable 10 - Appears to be temp or misc unit as nobody stays at this num, also was used by Ebensburg Senior Center for a while in the Rural Divsion by Aging Agency.
  • Portable 11 - Dispatcher Use - (Note: As stated above, this is the unit who IDed as 10 before.)
  • Portable 12 - Dispatcher Use 4/12
    • Note 1: Dispatcher Use is when a Dispatcher goes on the road (each has their own number) to do road detour work or some special assignment (normally special events like parades). Two new Dispatchers appear to have been hired and most likely they will end up with 12&13 or they could take 5&9 which currently are not in use.

Other (non-Portable) Units

  • Dispatch - Dispatcher in Moxham Garage
  • Bus Stop Stop - Person working in Bus Stop Shop at Transit Center on Main St
  • Inclined Plane/Incline - Person working the Inclined Plane on Edgehill Dr
  • Front Desk - Customer Desk at Moxham Garage (sells bus passes and gives bus

information on phone)

Vehicles

  • 101-107 - Newer 35ft buses
  • 124 & 125 - Renaissance Trolleys used for Downtown Shuttle
  • 2xx - Buses (Rarely used except for bus replacements when nothing else is available, some training, and one used at Airport Smoke Drill 2009.)
  • 5xx - Buses (35ft Buses)
  • 6xx - Buses (601 was only bus but now sold)
  • 7xx - Buses (Newer buses with Security Cameras) (30ft Buses)
  • 8xx - Buses (Newest buses with Security Cameras) (30ft Buses)
  • 900 - Hybrid Electric/Diesel Bus (May-June 2010)
  • Axx - Formerly Cambria County Area Agency on Aging Buses now used by CamTran Rural since the takeover
  • Cxx - Rural Division buses except C6/C7 (See Note)
  • C6 - Mechanics/Portable 4 Vehicle
  • C7 - Mechanics/Portable 4 Chevy Blazer
  • C11 - Rural Division Ford Van that's part of Rural but also used by Urban for driver reliefs, picking up passed up passengers, and more. Never seems to leave the Johnstown area.
  • T9 - Mechanics Truck (Rarely Heard) - First heard Feb 2011
  • T10 - Mechanics Truck (Rarely Heard)
  • T87 - Service Truck (Portable 124)
  • T88 - Service Truck (Portable 4)
  • T89 - Maintenance Pick-up Truck
  • T93 - Dump Truck
    • Note: Normally Cxx buses are used on Rural channels but some buses stay in Johnstown (ADA) so use Urban and others (Route 30 normally) use it when in Johnstown to talk to Johnstown Dispatch or Johnstown Drivers.

Common Abbreviations

  • Barn - Moxham Garage/Office
  • Bus Stop (Shop) - Store located in the Transit Center that sells food and passes, plus contains one of the lost and founds.
  • Down - Late, i.e. 5 minutes down
  • Helper - Can either be a shuttle bus when a detour is in effect or just a bus that's covering part of a run for another driver
  • Reporter - Driver (normally new person though when doing "reverse seniority" can be an older (not age-wise) driver) that waits at the Moxham Office and responds when need for covering a run, doing a helper, and more
  • Run - Entire slice of work given to a driver for a day
  • Trip - Single trip, i.e. 8:30AM Route #15
  • TC - Short for Transit Center, located on Main St in Downtown Johnstown
  • WC - Wheelchair

Rural Division

Portables

Starting 1/13 the Rural Division started getting Portables, check "Portables" under Urban for more info.

Vehicles

  • Axx - Cambria County Area Agency on Aging Buses
  • CXX - Rural Division buses except C7 (See Note 7)
  • T87 - Service Truck (Mechanics)

Inclined Plane

Units

  • Incline 1 - Believed to be Operator
  • Incline 2 - Believed to be 2nd Operator