The Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) will be going after the increasing number of pirate public service vehicles (PSVs) on the roads, including setting its new investigating officers on the case.
This is is according to its director of complaints and legal affairs Craig Banfield, after chairman Roy Raphael revealed that there were more than 30 such vehicles operating on routes across the island.
Raphael said the association was still gathering data on the practice but preliminary findings showed the number of pirates, using private vehicles and ZMs, had increased from one to 35.
Banfield blamed the increase on the COVID-19 pandemic, as there was a time when pirate vehicles operated solely on one route.
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