Dean Trailways of Michigan has maintained the highest safety rating from the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation. Check our safety rating here.

All Trailways member-companies are required to possess the US Department of Defense (DOD) Safety designation.  This designation guarantees that each Trailways company participates in the North American transportation industry’s most stringent annual onsite safety inspection and audit, which is implemented by the US DOD.   This annual inspection carefully audits all areas of a company’s safe passenger transport service, including the company’s day-to-day operational practices, equipment maintenance, and ongoing driver education, drug-testing, and training.

As a matter of fact, there are over 3,800 registered motorcoach operators listed with the Departments of Transportation throughout North America; and of that number, only 459 possess this DOD safety designation.  The entire Trailways system of operators is among those four hundred plus motorcoach companies having achieved this level of “operational safety” certified by the US Department of Defense.

Dean Trailways of Michigan received our Department of Defense Certification after our compliance audit in April, 2006. Since that time we have become a regular carrier of newly enlisted service members. We also regularly carry service members traveling to and from bases and their home towns as they prepare for tours in Iraq or Afganistan or upon their return.