Vallacar Transit Corporation

Vallacar Transit Incorporated
Industry Land Transport
Founded 1968
Headquarters Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, Philippines
Area served
 Philippines
(Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas)
Key people
  • Ricardo B. Yanson, Sr.†
    (Founder and Former President)
  • Ricardo V. Yanson, Jr.
    (Current President and CEO)
Products Shuttle
Inter-City
Tourist
Local Transport
Number of employees
 4,500+
Parent Yanson Group of Bus Companies
Divisions Transport Engineering and Bus Body Assembly Plant (TEBBAP)
Slogan "First In Service * Foremost In Fleet Maintenance"
Website vallacartransit.net

Vallacar Transit Incorporated (VTI) is a family-owned and managed business that has grown from a lone 14-seater jeepney plying a single route called Ceres Liner, to a conglomerate of transportation companies with a combined number of operating units of 838 transport vehicles as of January 2010, operating in Visayas. The company pioneered inter-modal services between Negros and Cebu.

History

The company was founded in 1968 by Ricardo B. Yanson and his wife, Olivia Villaflores Yanson, beginning with the purchase of one jeepney unit. This effort ultimately became a jeepney-assembly business. In the early 1970s, the market was flooded with Ford Fieras; the couple decided to diversify into a small bus line which plied the Bacolod City-Valladolid-La Carlota route (hence, Vallacar) and christened it Ceres Liner.[1]

Bachelor Express units at Butuan City bus terminal

Destinations

Visayas Routes (Ceres Liner)

Bacolod Base

Iloilo Base (SRNH Base)

Economy fare and air-conditioned

Dumaguete Base

Cebu Base

Fleets

Majority of VTI's coaches are built by its coach-building division, the VTI Transport Engineering and Bus Body Assembly Plant (VTI-TEBBAP), in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City.[2]

Some units are also built by other local bus body builders like Pilipinas Hino, Almazora Motors, and Santarosa Philippines; as well as foreign coach builders like King Long, Golden Dragon, Higer and Yutong of China.

Examples of VTI's current own-built models are Viking, Crius, Legacy and Contessa.

Airconditioned Units

VTI-TEBBAP Viking bus unit of Bachelor Express at Tandag City

Ordinary Fare units

Hino FB4J Cat's Eye bus unit of Ceres Liner at Bacolod City

Fleet Numbering

This VTI unit (right) has its fleet number 14014 (therefore with prefix number 14), which means it belongs to the Batangas base of Ceres Transport, albeit operated by Gold Star.

VTI bases its fleet numbering according to the base cities which the units are based, indicated by its prefix number or the first digits.

Prefix Subsidiary Base
5 Ceres Liner Bacolod City
6 Ceres Liner Iloilo City
7 Ceres Liner Dumaguete City
8 Ceres Liner Cebu City

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://vallacartransit.net/home.html
  2. ↑ http://vallacartransit.net/facility.html

External links

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