Transport with Care
Comstock's Magazine (November 1, 2011)
Husband-and-wife team Alex and Feysan Lodde launched MediVan in 1975 with one bus, three employees and a truckload of dedication. Now called MV Transportation Inc., the privately owned passenger transportation company is the largest of its kind in the United States.
In the past decade, the Fairfield-based dynamo has ballooned from a regional transportation venture with 59 contracts and revenues of $100 million to an international company servicing 229 contracts and earning more than $770 million. The Lodde’s are still hands-on with the company but have transferred the daily running of the business to a top-notch management team.
Mass Transit Magazine Names MV Transportation's W.C. Pihl as a Top 40 Transit Professional
Mass Transit Magazine (September 16, 2011)
MV Transportation, Inc. began as a small California based paratransit provider and has become the largest privately owned transportation contracting firm based in the United States. W.C. Pihl, senior vice president of Business Development, has had a major role in this growth since joining the company in 2000.
Women in Transportation - MV Transportation RVP, Judie Smith
METRO Magazine - Sept./Oct. Issue (September 15, 2011)
With experience in accounting, Judie Smith wanted to gain more knowledge of the operations of Los Angeles-based school bus and public transit contractor Mayflower Contract Services (MCS), where she had her first transit job in the accounting department. She told her boss she wanted to advance, so for six months she worked one-on-one with everyone from the GM to the maintenance department. "I still appreciate the day they put me in a jumpsuit," she says.
Enhancing the Customer Experience is Vital to Coordinated Transit Networks
Community Transportation Magazine (January 1, 2011)
Technology Companies are moving quickly to develop tools and products that will support the future visions of transit agencies nationwide. Take American-owned MV Technology - a spinoff of Transportation giant, MV Transportation, Inc.,- which took a home-grown product developed to help clients monitor service and developed this tool into the TimePoint Software Suite.
MV Transportation's Marsha Moore Named One of Metro Magazine's 2010 Women in Transit
Metro Magazine (October 1, 2010)
Marsha Moore is proud of the fact that she puts the math she learned in high school and college to good use on the job. "If your children are saying, 'I hate math, I'm never going to use math', that's totally wrong," she says. The automated scheduling algorithms she has written are directly related to math, particularly geometry, she says.
Into New Digs
Vacaville Reporter (September 12, 2010)
As it is for any company, rapid expansion often means growing office space and sometimes fosters a desire by managers to combine far flung operations under one roof. That is the situation Fairfield-based MV Transportation founders Alex and Feysan Lodde found themselves two years ago.
