Jim Epstein on the Government’s Appalling Campaign Against Small Bus Companies

Eight months ago, Jeff and Judy Rodgers of Greenville, North
Carolina ran a thriving charter bus company called Southeastern
Tours with seven motor coaches and annual revenues of about a
million dollars. 

Today the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. The Rodgers
have returned six of their seven buses, and they may lose their
home of 22 years, which served as collateral on a business
loan.

Southeastern Tours is a victim of the government’s new
tough-on-crime approach to regulating the bus industry, which, as
Reason TV’s Jim Epstein explains, is forcing carriers with
impeccable safety records off the road and then denying owners
their constitutional rights to due process.

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