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Posts in Category: Bus Maintenance

Technician apprentice: Show up, work hard and you’ll succeed

| Jan. 14, 2025

When DeVona Love came to Metro Transit, she planned to stick around just long enough to pay for nursing school. The longer she stayed, though, the more she dedicated herself to building a career in transit. She went from being a part-time to [...]

Bus Maintenance Career Tracks

Career Tracks: Peter Lockhart, helper

Posted by Drew Kerr | Nov. 22, 2024

Many people who work at Metro Transit take on new responsibilities and roles throughout their careers. Career Tracks highlights the paths employees have taken to their latest assignment and where they see themselves going next. How did you [...]

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COO Vince Pellegrin retires after four decades in transit

Posted by Drew Kerr | June 16, 2021

Growing up in southern California, Vince Pellegrin was a self-described “surfer kid” with a thing for hot rods. His first job? Pumping gas. His first car? A 1967 Ford Fairlane. But after attending the University of Southern California and [...]

Bus Maintenance

Maintenance teams exceed annual performance goals

Posted by John Komarek | Jan. 19, 2021

Heywood Mechanic Technician Dan Aasen with a rarely used tow vehicle. Metro Transit’s bus and rail maintenance departments beat annual goals that measure how frequently in-service buses and trains need to be fixed last year. Buses traveled [...]

Bus Maintenance COVID-19 In This Together

In This Together: Silas Sharp

Posted by John Komarek | May 7, 2020

Across the organization, Metro Transit employees’ work has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These "In These Together" Q&As illustrate how employees are adapting both on and off the clock. Read more interviews here. Silas Sharp, [...]

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