with australian transit group . parent joe & tony calabro founded 2008 headquarters robina service type bus services operator bustech gold coast tourist shuttle sunbus surfside buslines website tagroup.net.au the transit australia group is an australian bus transport group based on the gold coast in queensland owned by joe and tony calabro . 1 transit australia group owns bustech gold coast tourist shuttle sunbus cairns sunbus magnetic island sunbus rockhampton sunbus sunshine coast sunbus townsville surfside buslines history edit after selling their long established south western sydney bus operation to westbus in june 1989 2 joe and tony calabro purchased surfside buslines from greyhound owner russell penfold in october 1989 with 56 buses . 3 4 the surfside operation grew with the tweed bus service 1993 5 gold coast citybus february 1995 6 gold coast tourist shuttle september 1998 7 and coomera bus lines may 2001 8 operations purchased . the calabros also formed bustech a bus bodying business . in april 2008 the sunbus operations were purchased from transit australia and all of the calabro s queensland operations consolidated under the transit australia group . in november 2008 magnetic island bus services was purchased and in april 2009 the sunbus toowoomba operation sold to the bus queensland group . 9 10 11 in april 2010 the townsville operation was expanded with the acquisition of hermit park bus service . 12 the calabro family also own busabout and hawkesbury valley in sydney and busabout wagga wagga . although not part of the transit australia group older buses from the former two have frequently been transferred to surfside for use as school buses . 13 references edit the list sunday mail adelaide 26 august 2012 calabro s sold fleetline november 1989 page 176 stateliner takes over greyhound australian bus panorama issue 5 5 march 1990 page 23 surfside bus lines australian bus panorama issue 6 6 february 1991 page 45 surfside bus lines australian bus panorama issue 9 5 january 1994 page 40 surfside bus lines australian bus panorama issue 10 7 april 1995 page 54 gold coast tourist shuttle australian bus panorama issue 14 5 april 1999 page 56 major bus buys for kefford & hill australasian bus & coach sunbus australian bus fleet lists kynoch coaches and sunbus toowoomba sold to pulitano group australian bus & coach bus australia toowoomba australian bus fleet lists transit australia group buys hermit park bus company pdf press release . transit australia group . 2009 03 01 . retrieved 2010 07 24 . surfside bus lines australian bus fleet lists external links edit retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title transit australia group & oldid 740872539 categories bus companies of queensland2008 establishments in australiacompanies established in 2008companies based on the gold coast queenslandhidden categories use dmy dates from november 2013use australian english from november 2013all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 september 2016 at 21 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view