Bus-stealing racket busted Story Updated: Oct 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM ECT A MAJOR derelict bus-stealing racket has been uncovered in which Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) employees, licensing officers and private bus operators may be involved. The buses in question are scrapped PTSC buses which should have been discarded, but in fact are finding themselves back out on the roads, posing danger to commuters. The PTSC fleet stands at 425 buses to date, according to officials. Of that number, 350 are on the road, several are under repairs, while roughly 52 of them are carded for disposal, and would have been sent to the Vehicle Maintenance Company of Trinidad and Tobago (VMCOTT) to be scrapped. However, sometime last year, one of the discarded PTSC buses—TR 4 HAX 9221—vanished from the VMCOTT compound in Barataria.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:01:27 +0000