Virginia Overland Transportation - Teaming With JL Associates

Teaming With JL Associates

In late 1990, the Virginia Overland staff joined forces with JL Associates, Inc. (JLA), a woman-owned Hampton, Virginia provider of federal, state and municipal contractor services which had been founded in 1978. With the larger JLA as the lead company, the principals of JLA and VOTC worked together for several years. They successfully developed and added a number of services and contract locations ranging across the United States, notably in areas of parking enforcement operations and school transportation. In 1998, JLA was acquired by U.K. based, Serco Group as it expanded its North American operations.

Two expansions in the Hampton Roads region which were undertaken during the 1990-1993 time period when staff from VOTC and JL Associates, Inc. of Hampton were continuing to operate as of April 2010. Initially based upon a former operation of Laidlaw Transit (Virginia), Transquest provides bus contract operations transporting students to independent schools in multiple South Hampton Roads localities from its base in Norfolk. Another local services section also operated by the Serco Group is the maintenance portion of the school bus operations of Portsmouth City Public Schools.