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This seems to be a new company in British Columbia. Nicola Valley Bus & Charter. An older Prevost H3-40 numbered as 73 which I am wonder if that is her former fleet number from her former owner, Marin Airporter of San Francisco? Anyone got more info?

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Edited by MBTA9244-9640b, 14 September 2010 - 02:21 PM.

[airwolf]

MBTA9244-9640b, on Sep 17 2008, 11:33 PM, said:

This seems to be a new company in British Columbia. Nicola Valley Bus & Charter. An older Prevost H3-40 numbered as 73 which I am wonder if that is her former fleet number from her former owner, Marin Airporter of San Francisco? Anyone got more info?

This may explain why I haven't seen one of those Fraser Valley H3's in the last few months. That appears to be one of the coaches I've seen, just replaced the word Fraser with Nicola. I had heard that the guy that bought the name was from Merritt and That would make perfect sense that he moved his operation to Merritt and renamed the company.

[A. Wong]

I wonder if that bus is ex-Fraser Valley, or if L&M Charters here in Edmonton scooped their entire fleet up. I noticed they do have one or two H3s, at least one is in their newer graphical livery. I know L&M has some of Fraser Valley's MCIs.

[airwolf]

A. Wong, on Sep 22 2008, 07:51 AM, said:

I wonder if that bus is ex-Fraser Valley, or if L&M Charters here in Edmonton scooped their entire fleet up. I noticed they do have one or two H3s, at least one is in their newer graphical livery. I know L&M has some of Fraser Valley's MCIs.

What got my attention with this bus was that it looked exactly like the H3's that appeared in Metro Vancouver with the Fraser Valley Bus & Charter name on the side after the January shut down of Fraser Valley Bus & Charter. It looked basically like the word Fraser was removed and the word Nicola attached.

[A. Wong]

http://www.cptdb.ca/index.php?s=&showt...st&p=436675

And speaking of L&M Charters, their yard by Belvedere Station has been empty for the last little while.

[canuck600]

Nicola Valley has started a operation in Penticton, "South Okanagan Charter Bus Lines" www.bcbuscharter.com The Penticton address listed is a house/condo.

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canuck600, on 02 April 2012 - 04:47 PM, said:

Nicola Valley has started a operation in Penticton, "South Okanagan Charter Bus Lines" www.bcbuscharter.com The Penticton address listed is a house/condo.

Nice find!!! Just the two coaches so far I take it?!

[canuck600]

I've only seen those two so far but there is a rumour of another coach being based up here. Might have to start shopping at the Real Canadian Superstore so I can keep a eye on this fleet.

[airwolf]

I've heard a rumour that the two coaches running around with the name Posse on the side may also be his. Any idea about them?

[canuck600]

So far I think only Posse Coach has been spotted afaik they are operating under the Princeton Posse Hockey team authority but I would have to doublecheck the ptb website to confirm that.

[Steven]

Work for Canada west coach lines and as most of you know we also do motor coach garage repair service for greyhound and basically any coach. Possee coach came through our shop a few times already. One a few months back

[airwolf]

I can definitely confirm there are at least two Posse coaches and both ex-CBL. One of them has red paint exactly where CBL's green was.

[canuck600]

I looked at the bc bus charter webpage and the coach that has red in place of CBL green is featured on the home page. A friend who lives in Merritt is going to drop by the yard later today and hopefully grab some pictures for me.

[A. Wong]

Here is ex-CBL 806, spotted December 2011:
http://www.cptdb.ca/...ndpost&p=528945

[canuck600]

Saw SOCBL 318 today and it looks like it has had a front end upgrade from the windshield down. I was in traffic when I saw it and the coach was parked in a awkward place to take pictures anyway

[airwolf]

I caught these three photos at the Huskey in Merritt on Friday. We are looking at SOCBL 318 (Mostly white) and SOCBL 327 (Red paint over the CBL green). The CBL unit number is still on the destination sign on 327. This is Ex-CBL 819.

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[canuck600]

I'm assuming they were doing Greyhound work? Haven't seen any of the SOCBL coaches in Penticton in nearly a month.

[airwolf]

Actually both SOCBL coaches were doing their own work. 318 had a Rugby team from Kamloops and 327 had a soccer team from Penticton. 327 was Richmond bound for a Thanksgiving Weekend Soccer tournament which I had an invite to ref. Unfortunately work was too busy to let me go. BTW, I noticed that WIKI indicates that CBL 819 was sold to Interior Charters. Does that mean that Interior Charters and SOCBL are affiliated?

[canuck600]

The wiki is a mistake I believe "somebody" assumed something.

[airwolf]

I knew that 819 along with 821 were both among the coaches that I was talking about with the owner of SOCBL sometime ago. Within two weeks of my conversation 821 showed up in Merritt with the CBL name and number removed.