page_title: Philippine Rabbit
section_title: Today
hierarchical_section_title: Philippine Rabbit / History / Today
caption_attribution_description: English: PRBL Higer Bus at Tarlac Terminal
context_page_description: Philippine Rabbit Bus Lines, Inc. is a provincial bus company in the Philippines. It was founded in 1946.
  The company's area of coverage extends from Metro Manila to Baguio and northern provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac. Its main terminal in Metro Manila is along Avenida in Santa Cruz, Manila.
  Philippine Rabbit was once known for their red, rivet-studded buses powered by Isuzu, with the illuminated sign at the front, which once became a staple of roads in Northern Luzon. They were eventually supplanted by more modern Nissan Diesel units.
context_section_description: The company resumed full operations in 2005 fielding its legacy platforms, the NDPC Euro and the newly refurbished 8500s DMMC units, together with a handful of surviving ordinary units. However its trips were limited as manifested by the closure and the sale of its Balintawak terminal which catered to most of its trips to Northern Luzon leaving only its Avenida Rizal terminal as its only terminal in Metro Manila.
  It is also during this period that the management tried to supplant its aging fleet by acquiring surplus Korean buses.
  The company faced another challenge when the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in 2014, mandated that all PUBs that are 15 years of age shall be phased out imposing heavy penalties for violations. This decision severely affected PRBL's operations since the bulk of its fleet were acquired from 1994–1998. This forced the management to phased out its old units and stop its trips to Baguio, Abra, and Alaminos. Trips to Alaminos is later resumed in 2015.
  The company started replacing its aging fleet with brand new units which started to arrive in 2014h the arrival of 5 new Sunlong Bus units and followed by several others.
  In March 2015, Philippine Rabbit acquired ten (10) KLQ6109 V90 units from Higer Bus Co. Ltd. Several months after, they acquired additional ten (10) units from Higer, a longer version than the first one, KLQ6119 V91.
  In March 2016, they acquired seven (7) GDW6119H2 units from Guilin Daewoo Bus Co. Ltd. through Autodelta as the main distributor of Guilin Buses in the Philippines. Additional GDW6119H2 units should be acquired later but the company discontinued the acquisition for unknown reason.
  On October 21, 2016, PRBL acquired 4 new buses from Santarosa Motorworks (1101-1107), Daewoo BV115. This acquisition from SANTAROSA MOTORWORKS  is the first for PRBL after more than a decade.
  Another batch of HIGER BUS (fleet numbers; 1109-1133) composed of twelve (12) were delivered at PRBL early in December 2016. These buses bore superficial resemblance to the 2nd batch of Higer (V91 series) but are powered by more powerful engines (Yuchai YCGL310-30). They are intended to ply Manila-Baguio route alongside the Daewoo BV115 they acquired earlier.
  On May 24, 2017, Philippine Rabbit resumed full operations from Manila to Baguio City using its latest fleet of buses (1100 series) composed of Santarosa BV115 and Higer V91 bus units.
  On June 10, 2017 another batch of five (5) SANTAROSA MOTORWORKS BV115 DAEWOOBUS (1135-1143) were delivered. This is part of follow-on order of ten (10) units. These newest addition will be fielded in the Camiling-Avenida Line. After a week, another five (5) BV115 (1145-1153) were delivered.
  In November 2017, another ten (10) units (1155-1173) were delivered making their total number of BV115 to twenty four (24) units.
  After a few days, additional five (5) BV115 were again delivered (1175-1183)
  Sometime in April 2018 construction works began in the company's Pulung Bulu motorpool which serves as garage and maintenance facility for units in Angeles route. The said construction is to pave way for a new passenger terminal for its San Fernando, Pampanga-Avenida, Manila via Malolos Route. And units allocated to this route have already been pre-positioned in Angeles.
caption: A bunch of Higer KLQ6109 V90 at Tarlac Terminal
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