Vallacar Transit Corporation

Vallacar Transit Incorporated
Industry Land Transport
Founded 1968
Headquarters Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, Philippines
Number of locations
 14 bases (2015)
Area served
 Philippines
Southern Tagalog, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao Region, Caraga, and SOCCSKSARGEN
Key people
  • Ricardo B. Yanson, Sr. (President)
  • Ricardo B. Yanson, Jr. (CEO)
Products Shuttle
Inter-City
Tourist
Local Transport
Number of employees
 7,500+
Parent Yanson Group of Bus Companies
Divisions Transport Engineering and Bus Body Assembly Plant (TEBBAP)
Subsidiaries
Slogan "First In Service * Foremost In Fleet Maintenance"
Website vallacartransit.net

Vallacar Transit Incorporated (VTI) is the largest land transport company in the Philippines. It comprises Vallacar Transit, Inc. (operating as Ceres Liner), established in 1968, Rural Transit of Mindanao Inc. (RTMI), and Bachelor Express Inc., both established in 1985.

This family-owned and managed business has grown from a lone 14-seater jeepney plying a single route, to a conglomerate of transportation companies with a combined number of operating units of a little almost 3000 transport vehicles as of January 2010, operating in nearly 80 percent of the bus routes in the Visayas and Mindanao regions as well as some part of Luzon in the Philippines. The company pioneered inter-modal services between Negros and Cebu, Mindanao and Leyte, and Panay and Luzon.

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

By 1980, Ceres Liner had covered the whole province of Negros and in 1981, they ventured into Mindanao. They bought out Fortune Express and Bachelor Express, both Cagayan de Oro-based bus companies in 1985, and formed Rural Transit of Mindanao, while retaining the name of the latter, as one of the conditions of the contract of sale.

In 2005, the conglomerate bought out Lilian Express Inc. and sister company Mary May Express, its fiercest business rival and became the dominant transit company in the island of Mindanao.

In 2007, its buses pioneered travel through the Western Nautical Highway. As part of their expansion of their Western Nautical Highway routes, and to establish a line to Metro Manila, Ceres Transport was established in 2009, being based in Batangas City.

In 2011, the conglomerate bought out St. Jude Transportation Company, a bus line based in Bohol, and renamed it as Southern Star Bus Transit.

In 2013, they bought out CCJRC Liner, a bus line based in Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte and integrated its operations to Bachelor Express, Inc.

In 2014, they bought out Weena Express, a bus line serving Cotabato City and became part of Bachelor Express, Inc.[2][3]

Today, the corporation presides over a transportation business with 7,500 direct and active employees, and 3,000 buses serving the island of Negros, Panay, Cebu, Samar-Leyte, Mindanao, and Batangas City.

Destinations

Mindanao Routes (Rural Transit/Bachelor Express)

Rural Transit

Main article: Rural Transit
Cagayan de Oro/Bulua Base
Cagayan De Oro/Yacapin Agora Base
Pagadian Base
Dipolog Base

Bachelor Express

Main article: Bachelor Express
Butuan Base
Davao City Base

Mindanao Star (operated by: Bachelor Davao base, Weena Express Inc.)

Main article: Mindanao Star
Cotabato Base

Visayas Routes (Ceres Liner/Saint Jude-Southern Star Transport)

Bacolod Base

Iloilo Base (SRNH Base)

Economy fare and air-conditioned

Dumaguete Base

Cebu Base

Tagbilaran Base

Southern Luzon and SRNH Routes (Ceres Transport)

Main article: Ceres Transport

Manila-Batangas and SRNH 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.[4] It also has a sub-facility in Barangay Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City serving tire recapping, general body repairs and other minor maintenance procedures for its Mindanao-based units.

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

Ordinary Fare units

Fleet Numbering

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
0 Ceres Transport Batangas City
1 Rural Transit Bulua, Cagayan De Oro City
2 Rural Transit Yacapin, Cagayan De Oro City
3 Bachelor Express Butuan City
4 Bachelor Express Davao City
5 Ceres Liner Bacolod City
6 Ceres Liner Iloilo City
7 Ceres Liner Dumaguete City
8 Ceres Liner Cebu City
9 Rural Transit Pagadian City
10 Rural Transit Dipolog City
11 Ceres Transport Batangas City
12 Southern Star Tagbilaran City
14 Ceres Transport
(operated by Gold Star) 		Batangas City
15 Mindanao Star Cotabato City

Sports teams

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://vallacartransit.net/home.html
  2. ↑ http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Nation&title=transport-company-gets-new-route-by-buying-bus-firm&id=100391
  3. ↑ http://mindanaotimes.net/new-management/
  4. ↑ http://vallacartransit.net/facility.html

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