Tacirua Transport Company Ltd (TTCL) will face disciplinary action from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) for illegally operating a school bus route without prior authorisation.
LTA chief executive officer Samuel Simpson said it was against the law for bus operators to operate outside of their authorised Road Route Licence (RRL).
“Bus operators are aware of this as it is part of the conditions of their bus permits. This is completely illegal and they will be brought before the LTA board for disciplinary action,” he said.
Mr Simpson said as a bus operator, the responsibility rested solely on their shoulders.
“Over 800 RRLs had been issued in Fiji and many of the same operators have multiple RRLs.”
The issue was raised when the LTA found a Facebook post stating that Tacirua Transport would no longer be doing an afternoon school route that they had been operating from St Marcellin Primary School in Vatuwaqa.
After a meeting with the school, LTA officials met bus operators to arrange for an emergency afternoon school trip.
Mr Simpson said the trip would be advertised under the Evidence of Insurability (EOI) process and until a new bus operator was selected after evaluation, alternative arrangements would be made.
Questions sent to TTCL remain unanswered when this edition went to press last night.
