Transport Daniel Meyer () exploits a joint grid system per bus and bus in part of the Département of the Essonne (and crossing the Hauts-de-Seine).

History

The history really starts in 1823, when Jean-Daniel Meyer, first of the name, postilion of its state, enters to the service of the Royal Transport. The Meyer house and the trade that one knows to him today are born in 1856. It is installation at Montlhéry by Jean-Theodore Meyer, wire of the Meyer postilion. Jean-Theodore Meyer disappears prematurely in 1876 whereas the company progresses considerably. His wife, Marie, ensure the changing of the company. Transport Daniel Meyer counts a hundred horses at that time. The First World War has just burst, Daniel-Louis Meyer leaves for the face where he will serve four years in artillery. Daniel-Louis Meyer will contribura considérablementau development of his family heritage. April 1st, 1939, the diligeance connecting Saint-Michel-sur-Orge to Montlhéry, Marcoussis and Linas is replaced by a bus new bright burning coal. In 1932, Daniel-Louis Meyer founds the trade union of the conveyers of Seine-et-Oise of which he becomes the first president. In 1936, the Jalopy, small train connecting Paris to Arpajon is removed. Meyer delivers the market-gardening productions of Montlhéry to the Markets. The company has from now on forty trucks and a half-dozen of coaches. There remains to him nothing any more but one horse, Crack. The second world war bursts. Daniel-Louis Meyer with new is mobilized. Jean Meyer integrates officially the company on April 1st, 1940. The exploitation continues with vehicles teams of gas generator to the Gohin-Poulenc charcoal. The war is completed in France on May 8th, 1945. The activities begin again gradually. In 1948, Meyer acquire of an old bus which rejoins Montlhéry in Paris. Daniel-Louis Meyer founds the APTR and is the president. From the Fifties, the company will develop considerably thanks to the urbanization of the south of the Paris region. The hour is with the lapse of memory of the black years, the rebuilding and the distractions. The company needs vehicles of great capacity to satisfy its customers and it turns then to the Renault manufacturer. At the end of the Fifties, Daniel-Louis Meyer decides to increase the deposit of the vehicles and to locate the offices street of Paris, in the center town of Montlhéry. The company thrives but a drama will call in question its future. At the end of lété 1966, whereas the Meyer family is on vacation, Pierre Meyer, wire of Daniel-Louis Meyer makes a deadly fall of a terrace. An tragic event which cruelly will upset a family and naturally will modify an organization of the travailau center of the company. Very affected by the loss of his/her son, Daniel-Louis Meyer falls ill and dies in 1968. A unanimous homage will be paid to him by all the actors of the profession. In 1968, Jean Meyer thus becomes officially general President-Director of the company Transports Daniel Meyer. In February 1975, Daniel Meyer joined the company. In 1976, the last truck leaves Transport Daniel Meyer. Michele Meyer, wife of Daniel Meyer integrates the flow chart of Transport, Finding her place in unviers masculine perpetuating in her turn the " tradition" family. In 1983, the company is computerized under the crook of Michele Meyer who deals with stage which will prove to be déscisive. In 1984, the grid system increases a little more with creation of two new lines between Orsay (the RER) and Marcoussis and between Massy-Palaiseau (the RER), Orsay, Ulis and Nozay. March 1st, 1986, Transport Daniel Meyer buys with the SETRA his regular lines of the Essonne. Daniel Meyer makes the decision to give to Transport Daniel Meyer buildings in conformity with the importance of his vehicle fleet. The new buildings are inaugurated in 1989. The carpark passes from 13.000 to 30.000 m ². In 1990, acquisition of the Matignon Bus in Etampes. In 1991 Albatrans is created, gathering Transport Daniel Meyer, the Bus of Orsay, the Bridet Bus and the STRAV. Jean Meyer takes his retirement in 1992. Daniel Meyer becomes general President-Director of transport Daniel Meyer. In 1993, with the support of the general advice of the Essonne, transport Daniel Meyer test the bio-fuels. In 2005, an incentive contract is set up in order to motivate the employees and to revalorize a trade too often disparaged. The delinquency increases and the drivers are taken more and more for target of an anger which could not be addressed to them directly. In 2007, Transport Daniel Meyer starts European coaches SETRA at the standards Euro V thus making it possible to become the first French company with launching the movement. Transport Daniel Meyer thus celebrated his 150 years in 2006… " For 150 years, we have looked at the avenir."

Administrative statute

• 8 million transported travellers each year,
• 6.5 million traversed Kilometers,
• 226 paid including 188 conduteurs,
• 140 Coaches and Autobus,
• 400 stagnation points.
• diffusion of 400.000 time folders.

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See too

Related articles

• List of the networks of bus in Ile-de-France
• Optile

External bonds

• Site of Transport Daniel Meyer