Dear Editor,
I wish to kindly ask the Police to look into some bus drivers who should be stripped of their licences to operate public transportation because of gross misconduct and abuse meted out to other bus drivers on the 40 Route. I spoke to other bus drivers who said they have been putting up with their bullying, ‘thiefing’ behaviour going on for years now, and it is about time the police put an end to this daily robbery and culture of misbehaviour.
The biggest problem at the 40 Route bus park is the ‘hot plate’ issue, where the route’s most aggressive and abusive drivers, who should not be driving public transportation, period, engage in stealing tens and possibly even hundreds of thousands of dollars daily from the mouths of the families of other bus drivers who wait in line. On any given day without police intervention, about 20 or more buses fill their buses on the hot plate by the hour. Calculated at $1,400 for 14 passengers, this works out to $28,000 being stolen every hour from other bus drivers. In a 10-hour day this calculates to $280,000 stolen from other drivers waiting in line. In a week, $1,960,000; in a month, $7,840,000; and $94,080,000 in a year. This is a blatant crime and represents a great loss to law-abiding bus owners and drivers.
As I’ve said before, these vagabonds who parade as bus drivers stealing from and abusing other bus drivers should have their licences to operate public transportation forfeited permanently. The police traffic department should have records to advise them and consider permanently stationing traffic wardens in the 40 Route bus park and maybe other zones which have significant complaints among their drivers.
Yours faithfully,
Jermaine Harding
