07 Aug Acquiring Minds: How to Buy & Build a $10m City Bus Business | George Goates Interview
George Goates has 4x’d a shuttle business he bought in 2016 by steering it into municipal busing contracts. His first one was Scottsdale, Arizona. There’s a lot to like about the city bus business, top of that list being long-term contracts. But there are also aspects of the business that’ll make you queasy, and George is frank about those. We get an overview of the broader bus & shuttle industry; municipal buses is just one of a variety of niches. There’s paratransit, NEMT, corporate shuttles. George breaks these down, including the pros & cons of each.
