Carl, a native of northern Ohio, graduated from Purdue University with an engineering degree. He worked for Cummins Inc. in Columbus, Indiana for 37 years in product development, testing, emissions, and service assignments related to heavy- and medium-duty engines, specializing in the bus market for 10 years. Carl still resides in Columbus, Indiana, and represents Hohler & Associates in Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and parts of Ohio and Tennessee.

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Bill's background includes more than 30 years of experience and progressive growth in senior management of fleet operations and maintenance. His experience in managing one of the largest mass transit operations in the country (MARTA in Atlanta, Georgia) and his work with Williams Detroit Diesel - Allison make him ideally suited to fully understand the bus industry from his customer's position. Bill also became an expert in the process of converting gas-powered fleets to burn compressed natural gas while he served as general manager for the NGV Southeast Technology Center. He's been recognized for his outstanding abilitiy to direct a well maintained and dependable fleet, clean maintenance facilities and operate within budget -- all of great significance and benefit to his customer today.

Bill is a member of APTA and served four years as the Regional Director of Region III. He was a founding member and sat on the Board of the Georgia Transit Association. Bill also served as a member of Clean Fuels Committee for APTA, due to his experience in alternative fuels.

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Bill began his bus industry career in 1948 with the Minneapolis-based Jefferson Transportation Company, followed by his tenure with Empire Lines in Spokane, Washington 20 years later. Bus Ride magazine, which he established in 1965 as a simple newsletter, grew over the years to become the full-size four-color publication that it is today. For that and his many other accomplishments, Bill was inducted into the American Public Transit Association's Hall of Fame in 1998.

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Bill Wheeler offers Hohler & Associates' customers a wealth of historical and technical product and bus industry knowledge. His more than 40 years of sales, service, engineering and training experience with General Motors Truck & Coach and Transportation Manufacturing Corp. make him a warehouse of valuable information for today's transit maintenance decision makers. Largely due to his extensive historical knowledge of the industry, Bill is able to advise clients on parts and technology applications and their success rates, helping to prevent ill-fated choices and costly decisions. Now operating from a relaxed position, but still with a keen interest in the bus industry, Bill regularly indulges his love of travel and exploration of the Texas countryside.

Since he is admittedly a devoted old "bus buff" he regularly indulges his love of vintage coaches, more particularly Yellow Coach and GM models, studying, cataloging, and filing historical data, memorabilia, and photos in the "old bus office" at his Texas headquarters.

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