MV Transportation, Inc., based in Fairfield

Fairfield, California

Fairfield is a city located in Solano County in Northern California, USA. It is generally considered the midpoint between the cities of San Francisco and Sacramento, approximately from the city center of both cities, approximately from the city center of Oakland, less than from Napa Valley, 18...

, California

California

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., is the largest private provider of paratrasit services and the largest privately-owned transportation contracting firm in the United States. The company employs nearly 13,000 dedicated transit professionals and operates more than 190 paratransit, fixed-route, shuttle and Medicaid contracts in 24 states, the District of Columbia, and British Columbia.

History

MV Transportation, Inc. was founded in 1975 by husband and wife team, Alex and Feysan Lodde. For the first twenty years of service, the company remained small, operating in fewer than 10 locations. In the mid 1990s the transportation industry experienced a wave of consolidation when several small and mid-sized companies merged and acquired each other. As a result, major multinational corporations emerged. At this time, MV Transportation emerged as a new contract option in public transit with the goal of ensuring fair competition and offering choice in transportation.

Today, MV Transportation operates more than 7,000 vehicles across the United States and Canada and continues to offer cities, counties, transit authorities and private companies cost-effective and efficient transportation solutions in paratransit, fixed route, flex route, commuter service and Medicaid transportation management. MV also contracts with several entities to provide turnkey services, operating all modes of service under one contract.

Company milestones

• 1983: MV won its first government contract
• 2001: MV won its first contract outside of its home state, California
• 2004: MV is named one of America's fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine
• 2004: MV debuted on Black Enterprise Magazine's B.E. 100 list as the 16th largest Black-owned company in the United States
• 2004: MV was awarded Microsoft's employee shuttle contract
• 2005: MV was awarded $500+ million contract in Washington D.C., largest in company history
• 2008: MV won the TransLink paratransit contract in Vancouver
  Vancouver
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  , British Columbia
  British Columbia
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  , the company's first contract outside the United States
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• 2010: MV Transportation was celebrated by client, Bechtel Corporation for its work at Motiva Refinery in Port Arthur
  Port Arthur, Texas
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  , Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
  . The MV division drove one million miles and carried one million passengers at the site.

Transit operations

• Anchor-Rides, Anchorage, AK
• Barstow Area Transit
  Barstow Area Transit
  Barstow Area Transit is the city of Barstow's transportation service for the city and the surrounding areas of San Bernardino County, California, including the communities of Hinkley, Lenwood, Grandview, Yermo, Harvard, Daggett and Newberry Springs....
  
  
• Compton Renaissance Transit
• Durham Area Transit Authority
  Durham Area Transit Authority
  Durham Area Transit Authority is the public transit system serving Durham, North Carolina.The fixed-route system incorporates 165 employees and 53 buses transporting more than 13,000 daily riders on 18 routes...
  
  
• E-tran
  E-tran
  e-tran is the public transit system for the city of Elk Grove, California and parts of south Sacramento. With currently 20 local routes, it began service on January 2, 2005. Nearby Sacramento RT formerly operated bus service in Elk Grove, but it mostly consisted of express bus routes linking Elk...
  
  
• Fairfax Connector
  Fairfax Connector
  Fairfax Connector is a public bus service provided by Fairfax County, Virginia, and operated under contract by MV Transportation. The first buses rolled out in September 1985 as a lower-cost alternative to the Metrobus service of the regional Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority...
  
  
• Foothill Transit
  Foothill Transit
  Foothill Transit is a joint powers authority of 21 member cities in the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys. It operates a fixed-route bus public transit service in the San Gabriel Valley of Greater Los Angeles, California.-Overview:...
  
  
• Fresno Area Express
  Fresno Area Express
  The Fresno Area Express or FAX, is a bus line in Fresno, California. The line has over 100 buses and 20 fixed routes as of May 2008. FAX offers free transfers as well as wheelchair lifts and bike racks on all buses....
  
   (Contractor for Paratransit Operations)
• Glendale Beeline
  Glendale Beeline
  Glendale Beeline is Glendale, California's transportation service, providing local routes that serve the need of those commuting within the city itself or who plan on using the bus to connect with rail service to Los Angeles or surrounding suburbs. The bus lines complements the Los Angeles County...
  
  
• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the California state-chartered regional transportation planning agency and public transportation operating agency for the County of Los Angeles formed in 1993 out of a merger of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and the...
  
   Los Angeles, CA (Southbay Lines)
• Lawrence Transit
  Lawrence Transit
  The Lawrence Transit System is the municipal public transportation agency in Lawrence, Kansas. They operate 8 fixed-route bus lines, on a two bus per hour schedule from 6:00AM to 8:00PM on most routes....
  
  
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. It is located on the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills above the central campus...
  
  
• Marin Transit
  Marin Transit
  Marin Transit is a public bus agency in Marin County, California, in the United States. Originally formed in 1964 as Marin County Transit District , it was rebranded as Marin Transit on 30 July 2007...
  
  
  • Contractor for West Marin Stagecoach
• MTA Maryland
  Maryland Transit Administration
  The Maryland Transit Administration is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation. It is better known as MTA Maryland to avoid confusion with other cities' transit agencies who share the initials MTA. The MTA operates a...
  
  
• Monterey Park Spirit Bus
  Monterey Park Spirit Bus
  The Monterey Park Spirit Bus is Monterey Park, California's transportation service, providing local routes that serve the need of those commuting within the city itself or who plan on using the bus to connect with rail service to Los Angeles or surrounding suburbs...
  
  
• Orange County Transportation Authority
  Orange County Transportation Authority
  The Orange County Transportation Authority is the public sector transportation planning body and mass transit service provider for Orange County, California. Its ancestor agencies include not only the prior Orange County Transit District but also such diverse entities as the Pacific Electric...
  
  
• Petaluma Transit
  Petaluma Transit
  Petaluma Transit is the public bus service in the city of Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. The system connects with several Sonoma County Transit routes for further travel within the county and Golden Gate Transit routes for travel between the city, Marin County, and San Francisco.Hours of...
  
  
• Roseville Transit
• SamTrans
  SamTrans
  SamTrans is a public transport agency in and around San Mateo, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It provides bus service throughout San Mateo County and into portions of San Francisco and Palo Alto...
  
  
  • Contractor for services that cross the San Mateo County line to San Francisco
• Santa Clarita Transit
• San Joaquin RTD County Services
• Santa Maria Area Transit
  Santa Maria Area Transit
  Santa Maria Area Transit is a bus service local to Santa Maria, California, providing both city and county-run lines.The Breeze is a weekday commuter bus service between Santa Maria and Lompoc via Vandenberg AFB, which provides free transfers to COLT and SMAT buses.-Route list:*1- Town Center...
  
  
• Santa Rosa CityBus
  Santa Rosa CityBus
  Santa Rosa CityBus is a public transportation agency providing bus service in the northern California city of Santa Rosa. It provides service for over 2.8 million passenger trips annually. -Routes:...
  
  
  • Contractor for Santa Rosa Paratransit
• South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (TransLink)
• St. John's, Newfoundland
• Thousand Oaks Transit
  Thousand Oaks Transit
  Thousand Oaks Transit is Thousand Oaks, California's transportation service, providing local routes that serve the need of those commuting within the city itself.-Routes:*1 Newbury Park*2 Central Thousand Oaks...
  
  
• TCaT (Tulare County Area Transit)
• Tulare Intermodal Express (TIME) Tulare, CA
• West Hollywood CityLine
• Union City Transit
  Union City Transit
  Union City Transit is a public transit service in Union City, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It began operations in 1974 with the opening of the Union City BART station.The service was formerly known as "the Flea."...
  
  
• Valley Metro (Phoenix)
  Valley Metro (Phoenix)
  Valley Metro is the unified public brand of the regional transit system in and around the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area, responsible for public transit.-About Valley Metro:...
  
  
• Visalia Transit Visalia, CA
• WestCAT
  WestCAT
  WestCAT is a public transportation service in western Contra Costa County . It is a service of the Western Contra Costa Transit Authority....
  
   (Western Contra Costa County Transit)
• Subcontractor for NYC MTA
  MTA Regional Bus Operations
  MTA Regional Bus Operations is the surface transit division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority , created in 2008 to consolidate all bus operations operated by the MTA.-History:...
  
  Access-A-Ride program in Brooklyn, Staten Island and Harlem