[PRCo] Re: PRCo First Aid for Trolleys

[Fred Schneider]

Right on.  That's only 5,884 passengers per car for a set of wheels at 17 cents per fare plus the sales the tax.   I think it was 4 percent then.   When you figure how many people they had to haul just to pay for the operator's wages, you realize how far the money did not go.

The people who really understood and I think many of them were in a quandary between protecting their job and protecting their wage rate from diminution were the operators.   I remember bus drivers here in Lancaster who admitted the didn't see enough money coming into the fare box on a lot of trips to pay their wages and put gas in the bus let along fix it. 

The general public always had the perception that big companies have a lot of money. 



On Jan 24, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Bob Rathke wrote:

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> I remember reading this article when it appeared in the Press. I also remembering mentioning to a neighbor that the refinished wheels cost $125 each, and  he replied that $125 wasn't really expensive for PRC since, "they have lots of money". 
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> Google Newspaper Archives Article.  FYI 
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