MV Transportation

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Slogan We Provide Freedom Website www.mvtransit.com Founded 1975		Chief executive Alex Lodde (interim) Motto We Provide Freedom Service types Transit bus, Paratransit

Service area United States, Canada, and Saudi Arabia Headquarters Dallas, Texas, United States Subsidiaries MVT Canadian Bus Inc., Reliant Transportation, Inc.

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MV Transportation, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas., is the largest private provider of paratransit services and the largest privately owned transportation contracting firm in the United States. The company employs more than 17,000 workers and operates more than 190 paratransit, fixed-route, shuttle and Medicaid contracts in 28 states, the District of Columbia, 2 Canadian provinces, and Saudi Arabia.

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History

MV Transportation, Inc., was founded in 1975 in San Francisco, California, by husband and wife team Alex and Feysan Lodde, who continue to own the company. For the first twenty years of service, the company remained small, operating in fewer than 10 locations. In the mid 1990s the transportation industry experienced a wave of consolidation when several small and mid-sized companies merged and acquired each other. As a result, privately held MV found itself facing major multinational corporations. At this time, MV Transportation recruited a number of top industry professionals who developed and expanded the company under the guidance of the Loddes.

Today, MV Transportation has $1 billion in annual revenue and operates nearly 10,000 vehicles across the United States and Canada. It offers cities, counties, transit authorities and private companies transportation in paratransit, fixed route, flex route, commuter service and Medicaid transportation management. MV also contracts with several entities to provide turnkey services, operating all modes of service under one contract.

Company milestones

1978: incorporated in the State of California as MediVan

1984: the company won its first government contract

1990: name changed from MediVan to MV Transportation, Inc.

2001: MV won its first contract outside of its home state, California

2004: MV is named one of America's fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine

2004: MV debuted on Black Enterprise Magazine's B.E. 100 list as the 16th largest Black-owned company in the United States

2004: MV was awarded Microsoft's employee shuttle contract

2005: MV was awarded $500+ million contract in Washington D.C., largest in company history

2008: MV won the TransLink paratransit contract in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company's first contract outside the United States.

2010: MV Transportation was celebrated by client, Bechtel Corporation for its work at Motiva Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The MV division drove one million miles and carried one million passengers at the site.

2012: MV Transportation relocated its global headquarters from Fairfield, California to Dallas, Texas.