Founded in 1948, it publishes the quarterly magazine, Motor Coach Age, and holds a national convention semi-annually for its members.
Every year since the early 1950s the association has held national membership conventions, in different cities across the United States and Canada.
For one or two years prior to that, MBS circulated a simple mimeographed newsletter named Bus Ways, but this was replaced in January 1950 by Motor Coach Age, which included photographs.
[3] During a period of debate among members as to the society's direction, publication of the magazine became sporadic in the late 1950s, but became regular again in 1967, when a new editor, Albert E. Meier, took over that position.
From July 1994 until the end of 2003 MBS also published Motor Coach Today (MCT),[6] a quarterly magazine focusing on present-day operations rather than history.