Coach USA

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This article is about Coach USA in the northeastern US, Ohio, and Chicagoland owned by Stagecoach Group. For the unaffiliated company in the western United States formerly part of Coach USA, see Coach America.


Coach USA
Example of the Coach USA Bus in its current livery
Company Slogan	"Everywhere you need us most"
Parent Company	Stagecoach Group plc
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Paramus, New Jersey
Service Area	United States (companies based in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Chicagoland)
Service Type	Intercity coach service Airport shuttle Motorcoach tours Bus charter Contract operations
Fleet	MCI, Prevost, Van Hool, Alexander Dennis, various other models under contract operations
Operator	Stagecoach Group
Chief Executive	Brian Souter (parent company CEO)
Website	www.coachusa.com

Coach USA MCI D4500 #8794 (owned by New Jersey Transit) in Nanuet, New York, in standard Coach USA livery. Operated by Shortline.

Coach USA is an American transportation service provider that offers scheduled bus service, city sightseeing, tour and charter bus service, concentrating on the market in New Jersey, Rockland Coaches Inc. (Red and Tan Lines), Red and Tan-Hudson, Shortline, southern New York, eastern and western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. Coach USA is a division of the Stagecoach Group, an international transport operator based in Scotland, Great Britain.

Its services are primarily based in New Jersey, providing charter services and route services, much of it subsidized by or operated under contract to New Jersey Transit, using buses provided by or leased from NJ Transit (such as the picture in this article). Other companies owned outside of New Jersey include Butler Coach, sightseeing operations in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and (under Coach Canada) Montreal, and Wisconsin Coach Lines.

In the midwestern United States, the Megabus brand was launched in the United States with a network of services based on Chicago and Indianapolis. The first services will operate between Chicago and Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and St. Louis. Services will also operate between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and between Indianapolis and Columbus. The services will be operated by, and coaches owned by, Coach USA.

Coach USA should not be confused with Coach America, which has many coaches painted and lettered for Coach USA, but is actually a completely separate company that was separated from the parent company around 2001-2002. Coach America (formerly CUSA) operates former Coach USA services in the rest of the country and does not operate in areas where Coach USA currently operates.