SINGAPORE — When school began for Mr Sunil Sabnani’s eight-year-old daughter earlier this year, he saw how some parents were frustrated as their children were dropped off at the wrong locations by the school buses.
“The kids were not being picked up at their scheduled locations so parents had to scramble in the morning and take their kids to school, or kids were dropped off at the wrong location because it was a new bus company.”“The companies are not to be blamed. There are just no drivers and they can't service,” he said.
A Straits Times report on Monday said the shortage of drivers has pushed ComfortDelGro, one of the largest companies in the private bus services industry, to end its contracts with four primary schools. He has cancelled their school bus arrangement, so now they either walk to school or take public transport.Bus operators said the shortage of drivers is a perennial issue which
Many drivers are also of the older generation and it is difficult to find younger drivers, according to Mr Jason Yap, the managing partner of Swee Seng School Bus. “For me, the answer to the problem is easy. Just let us employ more foreign drivers, this will reduce our operating costs,” Mr Yap said.
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