Oct. 27, 2008
Airport shuttle of passengers in wheelchairs
Thank you so much for all of your help
with my group at the hotel. Everyone thought your staff
was wonderful. I will definitely refer businesses to you
and look forward to working together again in the future.
Thanks, again!
Carrie Rasmussen
Sales and Catering
Doubletree Hotel Missoula
Aug. 27, 2008
First Day of School and Driver Mike Pahl
My son Connor rides
Bus 170 to Cold Springs Elementary in the morning. I just
wanted to tell you how much he loves having Mike as a bus
driver. He is so good to the kids and really takes an interest
in them. They think he's great and in turn respect him and
listen to him. This morning instead of wanting me to take
him to school for the first day, he wanted to get on the
bus to see Mike. Thanks for having such a great employee.
It sure helps the kids start their day off right.
Lisa Cox
Connor's mom
Aug. 18, 2008
Little League Western Regional Tournament
I wanted to express
my deepest thanks to you and Beach Transportation for the
exceptional service and care you provided to the Mt. Jumbo
Little League on our recent trip to California. Mr Mitchell
and Mr. Murphy were excellent hosts and provided our group
with the best of customer service and quality dedication
to their responsibilities. Your company commitment to this
type of service helped make this trip special to a group
of very fine young men and their followers. There is a reason
why your company is #1 in the industry, and we are very
happy that we chose you to provide this service for us.
Once again, thank you and best wishes!!
Terry Price
Mount Jumbo Little League
Aug. 11, 2008
Canadian Rockies tour
Everyone "loved" Dave Holcomb,
our Beach motorcoach driver! Dave is truly a most compatible
driver. In addition to being so easy to work with, he endears
himself to the tour members through his diligent driving,
road and site knowledge, as well as his personal concern
for each and every passenger. Dave was most amenable to
my suggestions and I to his. He was more than happy to make
stops for picture taking and viewing! We made a great team!
He kept the coach spotless. Again, a million thanks to Dave
for a job well done! Our Canadian Rockies Flyaway Tour would
not have been as successful without him! I look forward
to working with Dave again in the near future.
John P. Butters
Tour Director
Van Galder
Tour & Travel
April 30, 2008
Transportation of Athletic Teams
Thank you so much
for making the trip easy and safe for us. I hope we
will be able to use you again in the future. Everyone
with Beach that I spoke with - Mitch - was extremely
helpful.
Dave Holcomb did a great job of driving.
Jennifer Anderson
Women's Tennis Coach
University of Montana
April
29, 2008
High School
Orchestra Trip from Kalispell to Portland
Our
trip was awesome! I was telling Ray how much I love your
company: your guys are so professional;
your whole
outfit is so professional, and friendly and fun.
I am going on tour with Glacier High School next year
and I think we are going to Seattle; I intend to use
your company
if I can.
Thanks, again!
Sherry Simmons
Director of Orchestras
School District #5
Kalispell, MT
April 10, 2008
Shuttle for Real Estate Seminar
Just a
quick note to thank you for all of your shuttling
for G. R. I. Fun Night. Linda and Tom were dutiful
and good company.
And I
was delighted that we had a fun, safe First Friday!
Jennifer
Taylor
Prudential Montana Real Estate
March
19, 2008
Transportation of Athletic Teams
Great
Job! Everyone I worked with from start to finish
was absolutely wonderful! Mike Pahl was great!.
Thanks
so much! We enjoyed our bus driver a lot. He was
very nice: flexible with our changes.
Look forward
to seeing you next year!
Dayna
Finch
Assistant Women's Basketball Coach
University of Northern Colorado
Very nice people.
Mike Ayers
Head Football Coach
Wofford College
We were fortunate
enough to have Johnny Chinske drive us multiple times.
He was outstanding.
Craig Matosich
Head Boys' Basketball Coach
Sentinel High School
Carol
Falldorf and Dick Schipporeit were awesome! Knew what they
were doing and were great to work with.
Josh M. Laslovich
Head Boys' Basketball Coach
Big Sky High School
Mike Pahl was
awesome!
Thanks for the great year from all
of the drivers!
Marti Leibenguth
Head Girls' Basketball Coach
Big Sky High School
August
28, 2007
Western National Parks Rail Tour
It has been a pleasure
working with this great team.... Hope we have them next
year. They make our job easier because they do their job
in such a professional manner.
Kathy Roberts
Grand Luxe Rail
Journeys
April 24, 2007
Upper Miller Creek school bus drivers
Hello: I live on the
west side of Rodeo Road, in the Upper Miller Creek area.
I write today to compliment the school bus drivers that
cover Rodeo Road, Trails' End and Upper Miller Creek, particularly
in the morning.
Every driver I have
encountered in my 3.5 years on the street has been unfailingly
courteous to other drivers, often pulling aside and waving
cars through once the riders are loaded. It is clear that
the safety of the kids is their primary concern, but allowing
other traffic to safely pass them is a close second. When
I first realized that my work schedule would put me on the
road at the same time as the bus most mornings, I felt some
concern; in other cities, getting behind a bus on rural
roads meant adding significant time to my commute. This
is not the case on Upper Miller Creek!
For the record, I am
NOT a parent. But I appreciate your drivers, and hope those
parents whose kids ride your buses do so, as well.
Regards,
Ellen Calnan
September 7, 2006
Montana Tour
Thank you for all your
help on this trip to Montana.... Mike was great—kept
the bus clean, drove safely and was good with the passengers.
All in all, a great tour, and as you know, it all starts
with the bus! Hope to see you again soon.
Denise
McCammon
Windflower Tours
August 8, 2006
International Choral
Festival
On behalf of the International Choral
Festival, I would like to thank everyone at Beach Transportation
for your courteous drivers and timely pick ups and drop
offs. I know that the choirs enjoyed your good service,
which we appreciated as well.
Beach Transportation was one of the
reasons that the seventh International Choral Festival in
July ran smoothly.
Sincerely,
Gerald Mueller
President, International
Choral Festival
July 5, 2006
Montana Tour
Many thanks for the wonderful coach
and driver (Mike Keyser). Mike did a great job for us and
we were very pleased with the way Beach does business
Thanks again for the wonderful tour
of Montana.
Patti
Fitzpatrick
Griffith's Care Free Tours
April 24, 2006
Human Resources Conference
Dear Greg:
Please accept our sincere appreciation for your superlative
support of the 2006 Montana State Society for Human Resource
Management (SHRM) Conference. In particular, Paul Bohan
and Mike Morin were the ultimate professionals. They were
extremely helpful and very flexible, which served us well,
given that the return time changed considerably.
Beach Transportation
can be proud to have company members of this caliber. Paul
and Mike contributed significantly to the April 20 evening
event becoming a hallmark in the history of state SHRM conferences.
Don Malerk
Vice President
Human Resources
ELM Locating and Utility Services
April 4, 2006
Athletic Teams Transportation
Mr. Beach,
Thank you for a wonderful experience again, using Beachtransportation.
You always take such good care of us. I look forward to
coming back to see you again next year. Maybe you could
find something that could bring us some good luck up there
next season, though.
Jared
Barrett
Sacramento State Athletics
Memorial Day, 2005
Veterans honor and color guard transportation
Dear Bob and Greg Beach:
Thank you once again for your service to our country by
participating in the lovely and inspiring Memorial Day ceremonies
on May 30, 2005 by driving our honor and color guards....
Without your bus, our elderly veterans in the honor and
color guards could not have done what they did. Thank you
again for spending the entire day of May 30 participating
in all the wonderful ceremonies....
God Bless America.
See you next year at Memorial Day 2006!
Susan Campbell
Reneau
Memorial Day Ceremony Coordinator
United Veterans' Council
June 2, 2005
International Wildlife
Film Festival
Thank you for such
wonderful service. Our delegates rode in style.
IWFF staff
May 12, 2005
Gates of the Mountains
Hello all!
Just a BIG thanks for the excellent transportation for our
7th graders to Gates of the Mountains last Thursday. We
had a great time!
Again, it's always a good time ridin' a Beach!
Ray Somerset
Washington Middle School
April 12, 2005
Welcoming the troops
home
Thank you so much for
providing transportation for the Hellgate High Band so that
they could help welcome the soldiers of the 379th Engineer
Battalion home from Iraq! Your generosity and thoughtfulness
truly helped give our soldiers the "heroes' welcome"
they deserved!
Many thanks,
The soldiers and families of the 379th Engineer Battalion
September 6, 2004
Athletic Teams Transportation
Dear Bob:
Just a short note to thank you for your kindness and hospitality
this past weekend while our football team was in Montana....
Everything about your operation was impressive. I hope we
get a chance to come back out and work together again real
soon.
Sincerely,
Jack W. Cosgrove
Head Football Coach
University of Maine
January 15, 2004
University of Montana Athletics
Beach
transportation has been an integral part of the
Grizzly Athletics family
for many
years. I can’t imagine moving our athletic
teams around the country or throughout the community
without
those familiar Beach buses.
Just like Montana
Grizzly Athletics, the Beach Transportation family strives
for excellence in its service, its dedication
and professionalism. It is truly a “championship” organization
and one which Grizzly Athletics is proud to call
partners and friends.
Wayne Hogan
Director of Athletics
Montana
Grizzlies
July,
2003
National Parks Tour
Recently,
we took the Vantage America’s Magnificent National
Parks tour.
In
addition to a well-qualified tour manager, we had the pleasure
of an exceedingly pleasant, very knowledgeable and highly
professional driver, John Cornish. He was compassionate
(and) understanding....
He
was always cheerful and ready to assist in any way he could.
He earned the highest respect of the entire group. We certainly
hope he will be our driver in the future.
Vantage
is very fortunate to have a driver of his caliber.
Frank and Jenny Ritter
John
Cornish
John
was the driver on the national parks tour that we took with
Vantage earlier this month. What a treasure you have in
John! He was not only an experienced and very competent
driver, especially on winding mountain roads, but also the
"color man" on the tour. He showed us how yeast
could be found in the wild, and he provided a first-hand
account of fighting fires in Yellowstone. In addition, having
a conversation with John was always a treat, either at dinner
or while riding on the bus.... He added humor to the trip
and a contrast to the tour director's factual knowledge.
I
would give John the highest marks possible!
Ann
Murray
Hello,
We
recently took a tour of the National Parks managed by Vantage.
Joe Kost was our driver.... He was polite, helpful and cheery
all the time.
Sure
we had shoppers who had to be extracted from the stores,
and some ladies who always were last in the lines to the
restrooms, but somehow, all were gathered up and loaded
into the bus for the next leg of the journey. We had a full
busload, yet it was comfortable, and roomy. Joe did a great
job!
Thank
you,
Bev
and Dave Hodges
June,
2003
Dave Holcomb
Dave received a surprise when he picked
up a Special Needs student. This banner and a batch of home-made
cinnamon rolls were waiting for him, along with his student!
May,
2003
Dear Mr. Beach
While horrified at the news of abuse
occurring during the busing of a boy with a disability
to a Milwaukee school, I was equally compelled to extend
an overdue thanks to staff at Missoula’s Beach Transportation.
Our children have been regular customers
of theirs for many years. In particular, our son Michael,
who has autism, has utilized services aboard a special
transit bus. First to CO-TEACH, then Cold Springs, later
Chief Charlo, and now Meadow Hill, his limited communication
decidedly warrants caring oversight, to travel to and from
school safely.
During earlier days, when we counted
and cataloged each utterance in a day, he always had a “hi” and “good-bye” for
the bus staff, who greeted him warmly.
Just this past week, with Michael
soon to be a freshman at Sentinel, I was working in our
yard as his bus turned into the driveway. Glad as he was
to be home, he couldn’t deboard without first exchanging “high
fives” with the driver and assistant. These positive
exchanges often set the tone for the day or evening ahead.
While many aspects of raising and
educating a child with a disability, in Missoula, continue
to be far from easy, school transit over these many years
has been consistently conscientious, reliable–and
safe.
On a related note, having awakened
to a severe snow storm on a winter’s morning a couple
of years ago, I turned on the scanner to discern if the
buses would be running with regularity.
The radio exchanges that ensued shed
light on an artful orchestration of a fleet of buses inching
and sliding across our valley. “Pick up kids wherever
you find them waiting. We’ll get them to their destinations,
just get them out of the cold,” came the call across
the radio.
Safety was the order of the day, and
on this of all days, it was abundantly clear that care
and attention to both mechanics and staffing were no accident.
Judi R. Campbell
September 27, 2002
Dear Mr. Beach,
We just finished the tour through the
National parks and your Driver Joe Kost should be commended.
He is not only a excellent driver but very courteous, kind
and fun to be with.
Give him a big bonus!
Best regards,
Bob
and Nortrud Loy
January 29, 2002
Dear Bob,
…I would like to thank your
sons, Scott and Greg for their professional approach and
incredible concern for our students…. They not only
represent Beach Transportation with a sense of professionalism,
they earmark pride for the Beach name…. I know that
you know of the remarkable people work for you. However,
every once in awhile, I believe it is good to be reminded
of just how blessed we are in life…. Thank you for
keeping Jo, Greg, Scott, and the rest of the Beach gang
a vital factor in the success of Loyola Sacred Heart.
Sincerely
Patrick Haggarty
President -Missoula Catholic Schools
January 9, 2002
Dear Bob,
Once again we conclude another successful
adventure. How can we express our gratitude for your terrific
care and concern for our students? There's no doubt that
the professionalism you and your crew demonstrated on this
tour helped make the event such a triumph.
Randy, Mike, Pat, Steve, Harold, Joe
and Bob were at all times the epitome of selfless service
and skill. I'm sure that Erik and Ossie from Rimrock Transportation
observed a thing or two about how to do things right. They
did a great job and became part of the family by the end
of the trip. We appreciate the extra time and trouble you
went through in order to secure their bus for this trip.
Cara and her mom had a great time.
I discussed our travel arrangements
with several directors at the event and was again reminded
how our unique our relationship is when compared with most
other places. Beach Transportation is a wonderful blessing
to the community of Missoula and specifically to the Missoula
Bands.
We're proud of our students, proud
of our accomplishments and proud to be associated with you.
I think we'll take a look at doing this in three years if
you 'II have a bunch of guys that are ready to roll.
Thanks for taking such great care
of us! You're ALL SUPER!
Most Sincerely,
John H. Combs and Andrew Ueckert
Co-Directors,
The Missoula High School Band
