AP Exclusive: Feds shut 52 unsafe bus companies
Source: AP-EXCITE
By JUSTIN PRITCHARD
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal bus safety regulators have shut down 52 companies in what they describe as a major nationwide crackdown on unsafe outfits, including lines whose drivers had suspended licenses or worked routes of more than 800 miles without rest.
The companies aren't just low-cost, fly-by-night carriers - some have transported school bands, Boy Scouts or senior citizens, according to Anne S. Ferro , administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Overall, the motor coach industry carries about 700 million passengers a year in the U.S., roughly the same as domestic airlines.
In April, the agency began scrutinizing 250 motor coach companies with poor safety records out of the approximately 4,000 interstate bus lines it regulates. "Operation Quick Strike" came partly in response to major crashes of carriers that, despite dismal safety records, the agency had let continue operating.
In April, the agency began scrutinizing 250 motor coach companies with poor safety records out of the approximately 4,000 interstate bus lines it regulates. "Operation Quick Strike" came partly in response to major crashes of carriers that, despite dismal safety records, the agency had let continue operating.
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marble falls
(57,136 posts)liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)mockmonkey
(2,824 posts)This is the MC number for Vamoose 402959 enter that number and you can see it gets a "satisfactory" rating as of 12/11/13.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,496 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,547 posts)http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/
OnlinePoker
(5,724 posts)"Operation Quick Strike"? It sounds like they're making a drone attack.
bucolic_frolic
(43,236 posts)so we can have more crashes while making more monies!
eggplant
(3,912 posts)...you have to pry it from my cold, dead, ... oh wait.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)The bus companies that survive are pretty happy. Talk about a boon to their bottom line. Just think if you are a bus company in a city with three companies and two are shut down. Pretty great opportunity to increase business and raise prices to whatever you want pretty much.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)rickford66
(5,524 posts)He was killed several years ago while working in a construction zone by a speeding bus. Two of his workmates were killed also. Since then NY has cracked down on work zone speeding. When I drive through the work zones at the posted 45 mph speed limit and the jerk behind me tailgates, I slow down. If they blink their lights to make me speed up, I slow down even more.
Mopar151
(9,992 posts)One of first companies shut down by this initative. A few years ago, I was commuting to a job outside Boston, and the Fung Wah report was a near-daily feature of the traffic updates on the radio.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)Anne Ferro has two attributes I really like: she's tougher than a boiled owl, and she held a commercial driver's license before she was nominated as administrator. Think of her as the Elizabeth Warren of the transportation industry.