I grew up in the Caribbean, where there is no public transportation system so dollar vans are your only method of transportation if you don't have a car. In Lucia we call these buses 'Transports"
Nowadays these dudes have to get licensed a run specific routes but when I was a kid it was the Wild West outchea.
Examples of buffoonery you would regularly see:
-Two drivers fighting over customers and settling it by shooting a fair one. Nothing like having to get off the van you are on because your driver got washed and he can't make the trip.
-Transports are the number one causes of accidents on the island. One second you can we speeding along, next second you in a ditch, sliding down a hill, or worst you crashed into the damn harbor. Ain't nothing like swimming to safety in your church clothes or carrying your groceries.
-Some drivers will stop and run errands with people in the van. You detour to drop their kid at school, for them to buy some coconut water, or even stop at their house.
-They will commit crimes with customers in the vans, especially petty theft. My sister and aunt were in a Transport, last people that needed to be drop off, and their driver decided to stop to run into someone's yard to steal some mangoes (everyone does this, steal fruit outta people's yards). But famb also jacked a goat and put it in the back with my sister and aunt. And side note, goats drop like pellet size dookies, that look like Raisinettes.
-Since they are not public employees, instead they are all independent, dudes try to get in as many trips as possible in a day. Some of these dudes be acting like they are in the Fast and Furious with a van full of people. Ain't nothing scarier than when one of them speeding and you holding onto anything in the van for dear life, on some...
Person: Driver slow down
Driver: Relax yaself
Person 2: Real talk Driver, ease up
Driver: Relax Gasa, you go be fine
The whole van: Driver stop, Driver slow down, Driver brake..............
DRIVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Driver:....