Bus companies in the Ebersberg district of Bavaria are struggling to recruit new drivers. Bavaria is at the bottom of the country in terms of pay for commercial bus drivers.
The costs of public transport and school bus transport have recently risen sharply. School transport at the Forstern primary school in the district now costs 480 euros per day instead of the previous 220 euros.. India, Malta, Romania: Bus operators are scouring the global labor markets - but it's not enough to maintain regular service. The reason for this is the acute shortage of work and skilled workers in the bus industry, which Larcher colleague Josef Ettenhuber from Glonn describes as currently “dramatic”. “We even have pensioners who drive,” he says. ‘There are companies that could soon find themselves in dire straits,’ says Herbert Larcher, from the MVV company in Markt Schwaben/Glonn. The MVV, which recently showed themselves to be accommodating to the districts, recently issued an effective replacement timetable.