The Fung Wah bus company has taken almost its entire fleet off the road following inspections by the state Department of Public Utilities that found structural cracks in several of the company’s buses.
The frame cracks, located in the drive axle, rear axle, engine cradle, and other locations, posed serious safety issues, said Ann Berwick, chairwoman of the utilities department. The DPU asked Fung Wah to pull 21 of its 28 buses from the road and has referred the matter to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
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I'm almost exactly of two minds about this. On the one hand, I think it surprises no one that these buses are being run to their limits, given the cut-throat pricing of the routes, and probably not just by Fung Wah.
On the other hand, what the frack is DPU playing at if suddenly three-quarters of the vehicles run by an extremely well-known and popular bus line are so poorly-off that they have to be pulled off the road?
I don't think the DPU inspects all the buses of bus line every week. It's probably more like every year or so. Any more often than that would extremely expensive for the state since the inspections are labor intensive.
Inspections are just one more of those government services everyone wants but nobody wants to pay for.
They have had many problems I'm surprised they are still in business. If somebody checked for green cards they wouldn't find many. They would find several folks violating their prbation however.
Oh really? Do you have some kind of inside information or are you just making it up out of meanness?
If you do know what you're talking about, you should be reporting it to the authorities, not the Globe forums.
Were these buses actually made in China?
I'm surprised that this didn't happen sooner. They have a disamal safety record. This is a dangerous transportation company wih accidents waiting to happen. I think they should also check driver's logbooks for violations.