Baliwag Transit, Inc. was established as a
sole proprietorship by the late matriarch Doña Maria Victoria Santiago Vda. de Tengco (born on November 17, 1923, popularly known in Baliwag as "Viuda" or "Nanay Turing"), a native of
Baliwag and
Hagonoy, Bulacan. Prior to the establishment of the bus company in the 1960s, she had a hat business in
Baliwag, this becoming the source of the logo of the bus company. In 1954, The High Tribunal's CJ
Ricardo Paras affirmed the
judgment of the Public Service Commission (created under Commonwealth Act No. 146), which granted Doña Maria Victoria Santiago Vda. de Tengco's
Certificate of Public convenience application to operate 6
passenger and
cargo buses in the
San Miguel, Bulacan-
Manila route. It dismissed the
certiorari petitions of defendants Angat-Manila Transportation Co., Inc., Pampanga Bus Co., Nicolas Javier, Bachrach Motor Co., Gaudencio Nicolas, Enrique de Leon and Valentin Fernando. Victorio Tengco is also the President of Baliwag Navigation, Inc. a
manning agency at Victoria Building, 429 United Nations Avenue,
Ermita, Manila. In 2021, BTI
union leader Jose Abenales and 47
unpaid workers filed
complaints of unpaid
wages against BTI, which agreed to settle the case amicably. During the
COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and pending the cases settlement,
tragedy struct the owners of the Transit. On August 19, 2020, 49-year-old
Sir Knight Jorge Allan Rodriguez Tengco, Bulacan Tourism Council chairman died of
Heart failure. He is the eldest child of
Papal Dame Amelita Rustia Rodriguez and Joselito Santiago Tengco, brother of former
Baliwag Mayor from 1994 to 1998, Edilberto Santiago Tengco. On September 12, BTI company manager 74-year-old Joselito Santiago Tengco died. On January 8, 2022, Joselito's younger brother, 73-year-old Mayor Edilberto S. Tengco died. On March 20, Doña Maria Victoria Santiago Vda. de Tengco's—the family matriarch also died. Initially, BTI suffered financial losses due to
cut throat competition with the City Bus and PBC (Pedro B. Cruz). In 1966-1967 when Tengco acquired PBC formerly City Bus franchise and the lines of the
Victory Liner lines from
Nueva Ecija. VL and BTI operated over 200 buses along the Bulacan-Nueva Ecija-Manila route. Industrial Finance Corporation funded franchises and
MAN Diesel purchases. Baliwag Transit, Inc. was incorporated in 1968. The company grew as years went by and became a member of the Baliwag Group of Companies, currently, the Tengco Group of Companies. BTIs
holding company includes The Tengco Group of Stores, which is the umbrella of Tengcos' Jollibee, Mang Inasal, Red Ribbon Bakeshop and Chowking both in Bulacan and Baliwag Marketing Co., Inc. The children and grandchildren of Doña Victoria continued to own and manage the company and was presided by her eldest son, Joselito S. Tengco until his death in 2021. In 2022, Doña Amelita "Amy" Rustia Rodriguez Tengco, her daughter Maria Victoria “Vic” Rodriguez Tengco-Burgos and husband Mark Torres Burgos co-manage BTI and Tengco Group of Companies. Doña Amelita Rustia Rodriguez Tengco, the daughter of the late Nene Rodriguez is the
sibling of Don Romy Rustia Rodriguez and the late Danilo Nilo Rustia Rodriguez, the son-in-law of the late philanthropist, Engineer Ireneo "Mangge" S. Villangca. Don Reginaldo "Rehe" Rustia Rodriguez died in July 2024. ==Stations and vehicles==