DEPOT Recognition of BUS AIDS a critical TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEES situation developing in Personnel Transportation, caus- ed Brigadier General Ralph Talbot Jr., Commanding officer of the Utah ASF Depot,to form a Transportation Committee to handle this problem. This committee, upon invest- igation, found that employees depended solely upon private transportation to bring them to work and return them to their homes, Por several reasons this system did not work satisfactorily from the point of view of the chiefs of various Supoly Sections and employees riding in the cars. When the person owning the csr decided he was not going to work that day, the people participating in the ride-sharing group, were left stranded with no means of communication. Another factor which entered into the development of Bus Transportation, was the action of the Public Service Commission for the state of Utah, in comdemning a number of make-shift conveyances that were being Depot, as being unsafe for transporting other vehicles on the highways. used to passengers, transport and also workers to and constituted from the a hazard On March léth, 1943, this Transportation Committee, composed of Major Joseph Thomas, Major Celeb Shreeve, and Major Kussell L. Baker, of this Depot, together with Captain James J. McGuire, Highway Officer of the Ninth Transportation Zone , ed an up-to-date Bus System to be inaugurated at the Depot, with Lt. Charles A. Carthy, Jr., designated as Bus Transportetion to C, and CausMe- Officer. For the first six weeks of the operation, the Busses used on the Runs were those leased from the Union Pacific Stages, Burlington Trailways, and the Denver Rio Grande Bus Co, These Busses have since been supplanted by a fleet of GI Busses. The installation most successful and that "The Bus organization and operation of the bus system was referred to outstanding operations west of the Mississippi. Transportation that "Keeps ‘em System gets rolling!" there Quickest with the as one of the It has been said Mostest." It is an