Cambria County (PA) Transit Authority Unit IDs

Urban Division

Portables (mainly Supervisor Units)

• Portable 1 - Believed to be Executive Director
• Portable 2 - Dispatcher Use (see Note 2)
• Portable 3 - Buildings & Grounds
• Portable 4 - Garage/Mechanics
• 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 2)
• Portable 127 - Maintenance Director/Mechanics (Portable 4) Supervisor
• Portable 128 - Purchasing/Maintenance Manager (Bus Cleaners & Transit Center Maintenance)

• • Note 1: Portable numbers are mainly used on Urban only. Also the Cambria County Area Agency on Aging also has a Portable 10 and shares Rural channels, so normally Portable 10 on Rural 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.

Chain of Command (Highest to Lowest)

• Executive Director (not yet sure if has Portable number though believed to be Portable 1)
• Portable 7
• Portable 8
• Portable 5
• Portable 2, 6, and 10

Route/Road Detour Work

• 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).
• Portable 8 - Third Choice for Route Detour Work (Rare)
• Portable 7 - May be 4th choice but never actually heard doing Detour Work

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 - Person working Inclined Plane at top of Edgehill Dr
• Front Desk - Customer Desk at Moxham Garage (sells bus passes and gives bus information on phone)

Vehicles

• 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)
• CXX - Rural Division buses except C7 (Normally used on Rural channels but some buses stay in Johnstown so use Urban and others use it when in Johnstown to talk to Johnstown Dispatch or Johnstown Drivers)
• 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.

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