Difference between revisions of "Cambria County (PA) Transit Authority Unit IDs"

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Portable 1 - Believed to be Executive Director
Portable 2 - Dispatcher Use (see Note 2)
Portable 3 - Believed to be Buildings & Grounds
Portable 4 - Mechanics/Garage
Portable 5 - Operations Supervisor [Formerly Dispatch Supervisor but took over Portable 9's jobs]
Portable 6 - Dispatcher Use (see Note 2)
Portable 7 - Director, Safety, Security, & Risk Management (Director of Ops)
Portable 8 - Operations Manager
Portable 9 - Retired Roads Supervisor
Portable 10 - Believed to CamTran+ (Rural) Operations Manager [only heard during Halloween Parade 2008] (see Note 1) (see Note 6 down below in Rural Section).
Portable 127 - Maintenance Director (Mechanics/Garage (Portable 4))
Portable 128 - Purchasing/Maintenance Manager (Bus Cleaners & Transit Center Maintenance)

- Note 1: Portable numbers are mainly used on Urban. Also the Cambria County Area Agency on Aging has a Portable 10 and shares Rural's channels, so normally Portable 10 on Rural channels is theirs not CamTran's.

- Note 2: 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).

Executive Director (not yet sure if has Portable number though believed to be Portable 1)
Portable 7
Portable 8 & 10 (10 usually never is in Johnstown)
Portable 5
Portable 2 & 6

Portable 5 - Main Route Detour Worker
Portable 2 & 6 - Second choices if not needed for Dispatch (usually on weekends that have special events when P5 doesn't normally work or weekday when P5 is on vacation or busy).
Portable 8 - Third Choice for Route Detour Work (Rare)
Portable 7 - May be 4th choice but never actually heard doing Detour Work

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

124 & 125 - Renaissance Trolleys used for Downtown Shuttle
2xx - Buses (rarely used except for bus replacements when nothing else is avaible)
5xx - Buses
6xx - Buses (Read Note 3)
7xx - Buses (Newer buses with Security Cameras)
8xx - Buses (Newest buses with Security Cameras)
Axx - Cambria County Area Agency on Aging Buses
CXX - Rural Division buses except C7 (See Note 4)
C7 - Mechanics/Portable 4 Vehicle
C11 - Rural Division Ford Van that's part Rural but also used by Urban for driver reliefs, picking up passed up passengers, and more. Never seems to leave the Johnstown area.
T88 - Service Truck (Portable 4)
T89 - Maintenance Pick-up Truck

- Note 3: 601 was the only known 6xx series bus. It was mainly used on the Windber 21 bus route, but this bus seems to have disappeared and has not been heard of on the radio for 10 months, so it's safe to assume it's most likely gone.

- Note 4: 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.

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 - Single trip, i.e. 8:30AM Route #15
TC - Short for Transit Center, located on Main St in Downtown Johnstown
WC - Wheelchair

- Note: Radio usage is extremely low on Rural channels and most traffic is Area Agency on Aging. No Portable or special units have ever been heard on Rural channels. It's basically a bus to bus or bus to dispatch type of radio usage, nothing special like Urban. Though some fire departments are said to have Rural programmed in to their radios, no evacuations or anything like what is on Urban has ever been heard on Rural. Rural also has no where near the employees of Urban. Also -the radio coverage is horrible at times, so landlines need to be used instead further lowering the activity.

- Note 5 - Rural buses usually stay on Rural for when they are not in Johnstown which most are not. Though some buses like the Route 30 Ebensburg/Johnstown use Ch. 3 when in Rural area but Urban in Urban area so that Urban buses can tell the 30 when they have passengers or vice-versa, and besides Rural channels work lousy in Johnstown due to how far away the repeaters are, Nanty-Glo and Carrolltown. Also, Johnstown ADA routes use Urban.

- Note 6: Before it was always believed that although CamTran+ and the Area Agency on Aging shared facilities and radio channels, that their Portable 10 was someone different and that most likely they just choose the number 10, so it would not confuse CamTran+ drivers thinking it's someone for them.

- Note 6 Continued: It has be recently learned that Aging's P10 has talked directly to CamTran+ personnel. Also, 453.475 which is CamTran's Ch. 3 and also the Aging's Ch. 3, which tends to support that both agencies have a fairly close working relationship. All of this is pointing to the P10 heard during the Halloween Parade, just being the same one heard all the time from Aging, though the hard part is, it seems Aging has more than one P10, because sometimes the voice seems to change, though more evidence is needed to support this claim.

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 ** Note 5 - Rural buses usually stay on Rural for when they are not in Johnstown which most are not. Though some buses like the Route 30 Ebensburg/Johnstown use Ch. 3 when in Rural area but Urban in Urban area so that Urban buses can tell the 30 when they have passengers or vice-versa, and besides Rural channels work lousy in Johnstown due to how far away the repeaters are, Nanty-Glo and Carrolltown. Also, Johnstown ADA routes use Urban.
+===Portable 10===
+** Note 6: Before it was always believed that although CamTran+ and the Area Agency on Aging shared facilities and radio channels, that their Portable 10 was someone different and that most likely they just choose the number 10, so it would not confuse CamTran+ drivers thinking it's someone for them.
+** Note 6 Continued: It has be recently learned that Aging's P10 has talked directly to CamTran+ personnel. Also, 453.475 which is CamTran's Ch. 3 and also the Aging's Ch. 3, which tends to support that both agencies have a fairly close working relationship. All of this is pointing to the P10 heard during the Halloween Parade, just being the same one heard all the time from Aging, though the hard part is, it seems Aging has more than one P10, because sometimes the voice seems to change, though more evidence is needed to support this claim.
 ==Inclined Plane==