Our Mission

To advance the surveying profession by being current, informative, knowledgeable, and entertaining in all of our seminars.

Our Goals

The main goal of Transit Seminars, Inc. is to provide quality continuing education seminars utilizing the latest audio-visual equipment and techniques and by keeping our seminar topics up-to-date, relevant and interesting. In addition to delivering quality seminars, we also strive to be convenient for you.

All of our seminar series are designed to be within a two-hour drive from your home. We believe you should not have to spend your hard earned dollars on motel rooms, meals and gas going to continuing education seminars. We believe we provide more seminars, on more topics, and in more cities than any other continuing education provider in Indiana. Your convenience is our duty and goal.

Our Speakers

CHARLES L. BEVINGTON, P.L.S

After fulfilling his military service, “Chuck” began his surveying & engineering career by studying at Purdue University, gaining valuable experience in civil engineering, surveying & architectural fields, working his way through various apprentice level positions.

Chuck was able to attend Tri-State University’s civil engineering program under the Veteran’s Administration’s Vocational Rehabilitation program for disabled veterans. He moved to Florida where he received two civil engineering degrees from St. Johns River College.

In 1982, he became a registered Florida land surveyor, where he managed and/or owned small & medium sized survey firms, giving him expanded knowledge in sectionalized land surveys, long-range utility & highway route surveys, construction staking, condominium surveys. Chuck was one of the first Florida surveyors to utilize G.P.S. in his practice. It was also during this period when Chuck was first retained as an expert witness. As an expert witness, he testified in property condemnation, land fraud & property valuation suits.

In 1993, Chuck moved back to Indiana and was able to purchase the very first surveying/engineering firm he had worked for. Throughout the ‘90’s he owned Bevington Surveying & Engineering, Inc.

Chuck formed Transit Seminars, Inc. in 2001. Transit was one of Indiana’s first continuing education providers for land surveyors. In July 2005, Chuck expanded Transit Seminars into his full-time profession & also began offering seminars in Illinois, and soon, Ohio & Kentucky.

DON REID, J.D.

Don Reid was a radio-TV newscaster/news director in Florida for 15 years before he graduated from the University of Florida law school.

He practiced law in Florida for 20 years before retiring. While a prosecuting attorney he met Chuck Bevington when he needed help in understanding how to lay out metes and bounds deeds while prosecuting a Florida land fraud case. After he entered private practice, Don represented Chuck in his business along with a number of land developers.

As a business attorney Don consulted with dozens of small start up companies in the service, land development, and environmental fields. He developed and owned drug testing, sports travel, and environmental remediation businesses.

In 1999 Chuck's wife Jean introduced Don to her best friend from high school. After 45 years living in Florida, they convinced him to move north in 2000 where it wasn't that cold.

Don still consults with many businesses as well as covers legal issues and trials for a Michigan newspaper chain, writes and produces television shows, and teaches with Transit Seminars.

Don does legal research for Transit on issues important to surveying especially in Indiana, Illinois, and now Ohio. He regularly can be found in the Notre Dame law library where he usually wears a logo shirt for his Florida Gators.