Cambria County (PA) Transit Authority Unit IDs

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 Mechanics/Technicians - New as of 1/13

• Portable 125 - TC Custodians - New as of 1/13

• Portable 126 - B&G Laborer

• Portable 127 - Maintenance Director (Mechanics/Garage (Portable 4))[Verified]

• Portable 128 - Not in Use 2/15 - Formerly Buildings & Grounds Supervisor (Bus Cleaners & Transit Center Maintenance) [Verified]

• Portable 129 - Not in Use 2/15 - Purchasing/Service Manager (Now called Parts/Service Manager) Was 9 [Verified]

• Portable 2 - Road Supervisor/Operations Supervisor - Formerly Dispatcher Use (Same Person) (see Note 1) [Verified] - Does driver training.[Verified]

• Portable 3 - No Longer Heard 2/15 - Formerly Inclined Plane Maintenance - Formerly Buildings & Grounds Assistant who is now 123 [Mostly Verified]

• Portable 4 - Urban Mechanics/Technicans [Verified]

• Portable 5 - Reassigned Dispatcher Use 4/12 (See Note 1) - Former Operations Manager who was the former Operations Supervisor/Road Supervisor & Formerly Dispatch Supervisor who took over Portable 9's jobs][Verified]

• Portable 6 - Reissued to new Operations Manager (Formerly Dispatcher Use by another person) [Verified] (Previous Dispatcher left the company)

• Portable 7 - Currently Director of Safety, Security, & Risk Management (Formerly Retired Director of Operations, Safety, Security, & Risk Management [Verified]

• Portable 8 - Director of Operations (Formerly Operations Manager)[Verified]

• Portable 9 - Was Purchasing/Service Manager (Now called Parts/Service Manager) (Maintenance) Now is P129 - was Retired Road Supervisor/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. (As of July 2013 the Ebe Sen Cen unit no longer exists).

• Portable 11 - Dispatcher Use (See Note 1) - (Note: As stated above, this is the unit who IDed as 10 before.)

• Portable 12 - Dispatcher Use 4/12 (See Note 1)

• Portable 13 - Referenced Randomly Twice - Never Heard 2/15

• • 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).

Other (non-Portable) Units

• Dispatch - Dispatcher in Woodvale 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)

• CamTran Maintenance/Maintenance - Appears to be a Rural B&G unit

Vehicles

• 101-107 - Newer 35ft buses (37ft technically)
• 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)
• C7 - Mechanics/Portable 4 Chevy Blazer (Auctioned Off)
• 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)
• T88 - Service Truck (Portable 4)
• T89 - Maintenance Pick-up Truck (used by P123/P128)
• T93 - Dump Truck
• T96 - Maintenance Pick-Up (used by P4)

• • Note: Normally Rural Axx/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 - No Longer Used Since Move to Woodvale
• 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 - Formerly Cambria County Area Agency on Aging Buses (now used by CamTran for old AAA routes)
• Cxx - Rural Division buses except C7 (See Note 7)
• C6 - Mechanics/Portable 4 Vehicle
• T87 - Service Truck (P124)
• T97 - Maintenance Pickup Truck (P124)

Inclined Plane

Units

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