Northern Luzon Bus Companies/Inter Provincial Bus Companies

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About Northern Luzon Bus Companies/Inter Provincial Bus Companies

Northern Luzon buses
About the Pantranco:
THE PANTRANCO

Economic and social progress, to a large extent, depend on the efficiency of a system of transportation that serves a community. The extensive road network of Pangasinan, and the birth of the Pangasinan Transportation company (PANTRANCO) were two factors responsible for the rapid growth of Dagupan into a city.

Credit for the extensive road network of Pangasinan goes largely to the late Governor Daniel Maramba. As governor, he built the roads that connected western Pangasinan to Dagupan; he also improved the road in the eastern towns that made travel to Dagupan very much easier.

Pantranco was organized in 1917. It started its operations with only six buses. Its main terminal and the Victory hotel was in Dagupan. Two Americans: A. L. Ammend and Max Blouse, founded the company. When Frank Klar, also an American, retired as provincial treasurer of Pangasinan in 1918, he bought the company.

It was Frank Klar, and his son-in-law, the late Don Rafael Gonzales, who first expanded the company's operations to cover the whole of Central and Northern Luzon. Sometime in 1970, ownership of the company passed into new hands this time the Manila Trading Company. Today, Pantranco buses are operating as far as Southern Tagalog and the Bicol region.

About Pantranco
Naaalala mo pa ba ang Pantranco? Ito ang kauna-unahang bus company sa Pangasinan na itinayo noong 1917 sa pamumuno ng dalawang Amerikano. Naalala ko nung early 80's,mid 80's hanggang late 90's ito ang laging sinasakyan ng mga pasahero patungong norte, lalo na sa Pangasinan, Baguio at Cagayan. Ito rin ang paborito kong Bus company nung araw hanggang sa itoy magsara noong decada 90. 1993 nang ito'y tumigil na sa pagbiyahe. Sayang at napakalaki pa namang kumpanya nito

www.dagupan.com/city/history2.htm

http://www.baguio.gov.ph/