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We wouldn't want fraudulent bus rides, now, would we.

• camgunz 9y ago
  It's more like unsanitary or unsafe vehicles and dangerous drivers who are either unlicensed or violent.
  • thriftwy 9y ago
    Having ridden public transit in the USA, dollar vans that I have ridden elsewhere have a long way to go before their sanitary status deteriorate as much. I'm talking about scary sticky floors everywhere. Light rail in Sacramento is ghetto on the wheels, and don't pretend blaming it on poverty since dollar vans were in much much poorer areas than CA. If anything, driver of private vehicle cares more about their vehicle, it being private. Who cares for public ones?
    • barrkel 9y ago
      driver of private vehicle cares more about their vehicle, it being private That's how it starts. But then one bus driver figures that if he gets together a loan, he's able to buy a bunch of buses and hire a bunch of drivers and scale up his income. Next thing you know, he's trying to evade liability when one of his dodgy buses has an accident, or he's trying to avoid repaying the loan, or he's cheaping out on driver skill. If the whole house of cards falls down, he sets up another shell company via a relative, transfers the assets across via a sale, and continues on his merry way. The private bus owner with the well-maintained bus goes out of business because the he's outcompeted by the scale efficiencies of the fly by night operator.
      • thriftwy 9y ago
        You can obviously hold a call for bids on dollar van routes, so that the best routes go to most capable companies and upstarts have to choose between less desirable routes. Other than that, you could write same things about bakeries and not buses. But we still have a lot of inexpensive private bakeries around.
      • SamReidHughes 9y ago
        We already have highways full of private vehicles with no rules about responsible upkeep. Bus operators have an incentive to keep their vehicles working and not get wrecked.