tore Recognition of a BUS AIDS 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 investigation, found that employees depended solely upon private transportation to bring them not to work work tions and return them to satisfactorily from the and employees riding in their the of of cars. was not going to work that day, the were left stranded with no means of action homes. point When the the reasons chiefs of this system, did various Supply decided owning the people participating communication. in the ride-sharing czr On March Thomas, conveyances l6th, Major Captain an Jr., 1943, Celeb James up-to-date Carthy, that were being this Bus designated as transport and also Committee, Russell L. Baker, Highway Officer of the to Bus be inaugurated at the workers of this Ninth Depot, to and constituted composed and Major McGuire, System to passengers, Transportation Shreeve, J. used The he group, installation successful and and of Major Joseph Depot, together Transportation with of the bus operations that "The Bus Transportation System gets organization that "Keeps 'em rolling!" system was west there nk Bu the Lt. to C. and Zone,caus- Charles A. Mc- Officer. Transportetion operation outstanding from a hazard For the first six weeks of the operation, the Busses used on the Runs leased from the Union Pacific Stages, Burlington Trailways, and the Denver Bus Co. These Busses have since been supplanted by a fleet of GI Busses. most Sec~ Another factor which entered into the development of Bus Transportation, was the of the Public Service Commission for the state of Utah, in comdemning a number make-shift ed several of person Depot, as being unsafe for transporting other vehicles on the highways. with For view of the Quickest referred to Mississippi. with the as It one has Mostest." were those Rio Grande of the been It is said an