Baliwag Transit

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Baliwag Transit, Inc.
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A Baliwag Transit bus
Founded1960;64 years ago (1960)
Headquarters Sabang, Baliwag, Bulacan, Philippines
Service area
Service typeProvincial Operation
AllianceGolden Bee Transport and Logistics, Inc.
HubsCubao
Fleet600+
OperatorBaliwag Transit, Inc.
Website baliwagtransit.webs.com
Bus Terminal in Caloocan Baliwag Transit in Caloocan City.jpg
Bus Terminal in Caloocan
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Baliwag Transit, Inc. 2967 in San Jose

Baliwag Transit is one of the major bus companies in the Philippines with offices and terminals in various parts of Luzon that mainly services routes to and from Metro Manila and Central Luzon. [1] It is named after the town of Baliwag (now a city), where it originated. [2]

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History

Baliwag Transit, Inc. was established as a sole proprietorship by the late matriarch Doña Maria Victoria Santiago Vda. de Tengco (born on November 17, 1923, popularly known in Baliwag as "Viuda" or "Nanay Turing"), a native of Baliwag and Hagonoy, Bulacan. Prior to the establishment of the bus company in the 1960s, she had a hat business in Baliwag, this becoming the source of the logo of the bus company.

In 1954, The High Tribunal's CJ Ricardo Paras affirmed the judgment of the Public Service Commission (created under Commonwealth Act No. 146), which granted Doña Maria Victoria Santiago Vda. de Tengco's Certificate of Public convenience application to operate 6 passenger and cargo buses in the San Miguel, Bulacan-Manila route. It dismissed the certiorari petitions of defendants Angat-Manila Transportation Co., Inc., Pampanga Bus Co., Nicolas Javier, Bachrach Motor Co., Gaudencio Nicolas, Enrique de Leon and Valentin Fernando. [3] Victorio Tengco is also the President of Baliwag Navigation, Inc. a manning agency at Victoria Building, 429 United Nations Avenue, Ermita, Manila. [4]

In 2021, BTI union leader Jose Abenales and 47 unpaid workers filed complaints of unpaid wages against BTI, which agreed to settle the case amicably. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and pending the cases settlement, tragedy struct the owners of the Transit.

On August 19, 2021, 49-year-old Sir Knight Jorge Allan Rodriguez Tengco, Bulacan Tourism Council chairman died of Heart failure. He is the eldest child of Papal Dame Amelita Rustia Rodriguez and Joselito Santiago Tengco, brother of former Baliwag Mayor from 1994-1998, Edilberto Santiago Tengco. [5] On September 12, BTI company manager 74-year-old Joselito Santiago Tengco died. On January 8, 2022, Joselito’s younger brother, 73-year-old Mayor Edilberto S. Tengco died. On March 20, Doña Maria Victoria Santiago Vda. de Tengco's—the family matriarch also died. [6]

Initially, BTI suffered financial losses due to cut throat competition with the City Bus and PBC (Pedro B. Cruz). In 1966-1967 when Tengco acquired PBC formerly City Bus franchise and the lines of the Victory Liner lines from Nueva Ecija. VL and BTI operated over 200 buses along the Bulacan-Nueva Ecija-Manila route. Industrial Finance Corporation funded franchises and MAN Diesel purchases. Baliwag Transit, Inc. was incorporated in 1968. [7] The company grew as years went by and became a member of the Baliwag Group of Companies, currently, the Tengco Group of Companies. BTIs holding company includes The Tengco Group of Stores, which is the umbrella of Tengcos' Jollibee, Mang Inasal, Red Ribbon Bakeshop and Chowking both in Bulacan and Baliwag Marketing Co., Inc.

The children and grandchildren of Doña Victoria continued to own and manage the company and was presided by her eldest son, Joselito S. Tengco until his death in 2021. In 2022, Doña Amelita "Amy" Rustia Rodriguez Tengco, her daughter Maria Victoria “Vic” Rodriguez Tengco-Burgos and husband Mark Torres Burgos co-manage BTI and Tengco Group of Companies. Doña Amelita Rustia Rodriguez Tengco, the daughter of the late Nene Rodriguez is the sibling of Don Romy Rustia Rodriguez and the late Danilo Nilo Rustia Rodriguez, the son-in-law of the late philanthropist, Engineer Ireneo "Mangge" S. Villangca. Don Reginaldo "Rehe" Rustia Rodriguez died on July 2024. [8]

Stations and vehicles

Fleet of buses (including sister company's Golden Bee) at Baliwag Transit Bus Terminal (Cubao, Quezon City) Baltrans2jf.JPG
Fleet of buses (including sister company's Golden Bee) at Baliwag Transit Bus Terminal (Cubao, Quezon City)

Like other bus companies in the Philippines with exclusive terminals, Baliwag Transit, Inc. has its own stations like in the city of San Jose and Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, also in Baliwag, Malolos and Hagonoy, Bulacan and in Metro Manila like Cubao, Quezon City and Grace Park, Caloocan. These are located in vital points along the bus routes, where potential passengers can easily converge for boarding. [9]

In 2009, Baliwag Transit opened a subsidiary company, Golden Bee Transport and Logistics Corp., which services the routes Pasay-Cubao to Baliwag, Cabanatuan, and San Jose, Nueva Ecija, and vice versa. [10]

They opened their Pasay Terminal in Zone 16, Don Carlos St., Brgy. 164, Pasay on December 14, 2014, owned by the Baliwag Transit and their sister company, Golden Bee Transport and Logistics Corporation. [11]

Baliwag Transit, Inc. and Golden Bee Transport and Logistics Corp. is utilizing Hino, Nissan Diesel, Daewoo, King Long, Higer, Iveco, MAN, and Mitsubishi Fuso as their current and historical units.

Fare classes

Destinations

Metro Manila

Bulacan

Pampanga

Nueva Ecija

Aurora

Pangasinan

Former Destinations

See also

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