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For Provincial Buses, Physical Condition of Drivers — and Their Buses — Are Key to Safe Travel

For Provincial Buses, Physical Condition of Drivers — and Their Buses — Are Key to Safe Travel

For the bigger bus companies plying the provincial routes to and from the National Capital Region, safety appears important enough that their regular drivers and conductors are given periodic trainings on road and driving safety. The regularity ranges from monthly to quarterly to twice a year.

The Hidden Lives of Bus Drivers, Wrongly Accused as Philippines’s ‘Road Monsters’

The Hidden Lives of Bus Drivers, Wrongly Accused as Philippines’s ‘Road Monsters’

By MARYA SALAMAT
SPECIAL REPORT The public and government officials, among them President Aquino, always blame drivers each time a deadly bus accident happens. What they don’t know or chose to ignore is that bus drivers and conductors are working under severe conditions imposed by greedy operators and ignored by government regulators, thus allowing these mishaps to happen in the first place. Sidebar: For Provincial Buses, Physical Condition of Drivers -- and Their Buses -- Are Key to Safe Travel | More Motorcycles Mean More Mishaps

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