One of the many shonky and corrupt assisted school travel operators across NSW, Capebase Pty Ltd has been reported in recent days as refusing to cater to the special needs of students in the Blue Mountains. The company has been reported on this blog a number of times for defrauding the department, having incompetent and dangerous drivers and student abuse.
Despite the many issues, the company is repeatedly praised by Neil Moon - who told parents in Blayney at the beginning of the year that the new bus operator would provide a far superior service to their former operator and that there is no problems with driver Steve Minshull, who is also the school's music teacher.
A former Capebase employee has spoken to Carenne Gate about the company, exposing its manager Les Ross.
According to the former employee turned whistleblower, Capebase consists of two parts - its Pacific South West Shuttle service and its assisted school travel service. According to the whistleblower, when vehicles are no longer suited to the shuttle service in Sydney they are retired to become assisted travel vehicles.
"On some of his buses you can see where he took the stickers off with a hairdryer, they are just the old shuttles used for student transport. I remember asking him why he didn't use his good vehicles for the school runs and I got told that 'we use the shit for the schools because we are only transporting retards anyway, Wollongong doesn't care, my mate George looks after me'", said the whistleblower.
The whistleblower said the standard of some of the vehicles used to transport disabled students was appalling. They claim to have made Les Ross aware of issues with vehicles, only for him to wait until the school holidays to fix them himself. They claim that most major work was done in his backyard at Moorebank. According to the whistleblower major alterations were done by Ross himself and never cleared by the RTA.
The former driver claims to have been told by transport manager, Lyn Ross (wife of Les Ross) not to 'take shit' from parents and to tell them to call her if they had any problems. She said there was a standing agreement with George at the assisted school travel unit that troublesome parents would have their children allocated to another run.
How Capebase can continue to operate under the ASTP and receive glowing reports from Neil Moon is bizarre given this history.
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Sounds Like Carenne Support Limited,They get back yard fixes on the buses they STOLE!
Who is George?
Neil Moon is a LIAR
Yes on bus AE-72HU
The Hoist Bus
I would like to know why things I said to Neil Moon in confidence were told to Lynn Ross. I told Moon that I wasn't happy about my child being put on a bus with Steve Minshull and 5 minutes later I got a call from Lynn Ross telling me that either I send my child on their bus or get nothing.
When I told Neil Moon this, he said it must of been a coincidence and then told me that my child would be driven by Steve Minshull whether I liked it or not because he did not want the Chaplins taking my child because they had been found leaking information to this blog and had spread around student information including that of my child.
Your child would be safe with Chaplins.
Report him too Ken Boston before tomorrow Friday 10.2.2012
Email him Ken Boston
prue.gusmerini@premier.nsw.gov.au
The Chaplins are dangerous people Carenne Support can provide you a better service we will speak to the Department to get your child's run to be allocated to Carenne Support.
That be worse ,they are as dangerous as Steve Minsull. Blayney Lady's child would get flogged.
Thought you were no longer employed by Carenne Support Mary Housler,or was that another lie from Boomer"Christine Porter"?
Two pea's in a pod is Carenne Support and Capebase pty both corrupt.
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