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Taking Commuting Into Our Own Hands
April 21st, 2009 2 Comments
Noel P. Ciminello is currently the Application Development Manager for the Funds Transfer Application at State Street Corporation. He has been vanpooling with VPSI since November 2008, when he formed the first ever “pool” of vans seen in Massachusetts.
Hello All, today I digress to give you a little background regarding our arrival to the vanpool scene. I take you back to September of 2008! We are all commuters on this big red commuting machine – sharing the commute in essentially solitary confinement. No one really knowing anyone else. It’s a sheltered, claustrophobic sense of being, robotically commuting to work.
One day, this big red machine decided it could wring out an even greater profit from its constituents. And why not? Gas was going through the roof and the big red machines were bursting at the seams with an ever greater number of commuters attempting to board. They even stated it themselves, boasting, “Let’s charge more! How else are they going to get to Boston? We have a monopoly!” Read More
VPSI Vanpool Vehicle Profile: Eight Passenger Luxury Commuter
March 31st, 2009 10 CommentsBy Steve Pederson
VPSI’s Vice President – Fleet & Risk Management
Are you looking for a little extra hip room in a vanpool vehicle? Take a closer look at VPSI’s Eight Passenger Luxury Commuter pictured below. This vehicle has great leg room, features reclining high back bucket seats, and best of all – extra large seats. Compared to some of the other popular commuter vehicle choices, this vehicle has wider seats in all seating positions. And, who doesn’t need a little extra room these days? There is also extra room in the van behind the last row of seats. So, there is plenty of room to fully recline the seats in the back row, too.
This vehicle also features: overhead ducted air conditioning, individual overhead lighting, and comfortable shoulder harnesses integrated into the seat. No more of those uncomfortable harnesses mounted high and behind the passenger.
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