Company Profile

Company Description:

The Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) was established in 1945 after the dramatic bus strike of 1944. It was run by visionary men like Tom Frith and Jack Barregar until it was renamed PUTCO in the 70’s.

PUTCO has been part of the South African history, trading on the Johannesburg stock exchange for over six decades ; surviving the penny fare increase of 1954, the 1976 riots and the upheavals of the 80’s.

We are the only public passenger company previously listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange SA and have grown into the biggest commuter bus operator in the country, operating 1600 buses, employing just over 4 200 people, transporting more than 230 000 commuters daily in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Limpopo and traveling over 90 million km per annum.

PUTCO has its own bus body building facility in Brits, operates its own accredited service workshops, reconditions its own engines and other components and has a spares hub.