Leanne Copyak Rock Springs Jackson Bus Lines , DBA Le Bus Owner & Secretary Treasurer
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Leanne Zanetti Copyak , is the Secretary Treasurer of Rock Springs Jackson Bus Lines . The Wyoming division of Le Bus owns and operates over 40 vehicles from 3 terminals in Wyoming .
Leanne was born into a transportation family in Rock Springs , Wyoming , the daughter of Mike and Marge Zanetti . Her parents started Vet ’ s Taxi in 1949 as a transportation company that consisted of a couple of taxi ’ s and evolved into school , contract carrier and charter bus operations . Her older brother and only sibling , Jim Zanetti and herself grew up helping their parents with some of the company duties . Jim drove and handled maintenance with his father as Leanne would sweep out and help clean buses at an early age .
Jackson Rock Springs Stages grew to about 12 vehicles and included contracts helping 20th century Fox with transportation in the Jackson , Wyoming area filming series television , namely “ The Monroe ’ s ”. A few charters , employee contracts and school transportation became the mainstay in the 1970 ’ s . Leanne helped with office and accounting duties through most of that period . She married Dennis Copyak in 1973 and had two children , Bryan and Tiffani .
In the fall of 1979 Mike and Marge Zanetti were exploring possibilities to retire and sell their business . Leanne and her brother Jim along with their spouses Dennis and Jo , began to draft a plan to purchase the company and operate it starting January 1 , 1980 . Leanne and Jo worked office duties and Jim and Dennis ran operations and maintenance . The foursome grew the company in the early 1980 ’ s expanding to 25 buses . A large construction contract started in 1982 and the company expanded purchasing more equipment . The construction job ended early in 1986 and Leanne and her company found themselves looking for opportunity . The answer came when they found some work operating into National Parks in the summer of 1986 out of Salt Lake City , Utah . This quickly evolved into the need to establish an operation in Salt Lake City .
Leanne and her family moved to Salt Lake City in the summer of 1986 . The company operated charter buses under the name of Jackson Rock Springs Stages . She helped to decide that it would better to call the company
Le Bus and made it the DBA of both corporations . The company was involved in transportation for the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City . They incorporated the skills of all of the third generation family members that included son Bryan and his wife Jenie and their daughter Tiffani Martin .
Leanne ’ s sharp skills in accounting and general business operations has been vital in building Le Bus into the company that was founded by her parents . It is now being operated with the help of several third-generation family members . Leanne is very compassionate about continuing to work daily doing the same job . Leanne and her brother Jim have daily contact at the start of each day . Jim continues as the President and handles the operations with family members in the Wyoming division . Her husband Dennis handles Vice President roles . Jim ’ s sons Joe and Jim and son in law Jim Love have developed the Wyoming division into a very vital portion of the company business . Both the Wyoming and Utah divisions work together in developing all aspects of the company operation .
She is dedicated to the principles set by her parents to offer clean , dependable and safe transportation . The company logged over 4 million miles in 2019 and operates 130 vehicles . She is optimistically looking to the challenges in the days ahead to continue making Le Bus “ A Better Way to Travel ”.
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