Pacific Western Transportation
Canadian bus transport company
Pacific Western Transportation (also d/b/a P.W. Transportation) provides a variety of bus services in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Yukon. Depending on the location, it offers scheduled and chartered school busing and local and long-distance coach charters.
Since 2022, it is a subsidiary of Student Transportation of America. In July 2024, Keolis announced that it is acquiring PWT's Transit and Motorcoach operations.
Lines of business
Employee transportation
Diversified Transportation
Diversified Transportation is a bus transportation company based in Fort McMurray that provides services to industry and private coach charters.
Student transportation
Southland Transportation
Southland Transportation is a Calgary based bus company that mainly provides school bus service to local school boards, and also servicing northern Alberta from Edmonton, Cold Lake, etc. North Battleford is the location of the Southland operation in Saskatchewan providing school bus services to local school boards, and industrial and contract charters.
Prairie Bus Lines
Prairie Bus Lines is based in Red Deer and provides primarily school bus services as well as industrial and charter
Standard Bus
Standard Bus is based in British Columbia.
Divested (Keolis)
Discontinued
Airport Express
PW Airport Express was purchased after the demise of Gray Coach, which had a franchise to operate a route to the Toronto Pearson International Airport. The service connects between selected downtown Toronto locations and Pearson Airport.
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