Putco Launches SmartTap Digital Ticketing System
On Monday, 18 November 2024, Putco introduced the SmartTap Digital Ticketing System, aiming to enhance commuter convenience, flexibility, and security. This initiative addresses persistent challenges in public transport, notably the prevalence of counterfeit tickets and the exploitation by ticket resellers. Transition to Digital Ticketing The SmartTap system allows passengers to load funds onto their cards, […]
ROAD SAFETY MESSAGE ON ALIGHTING FROM THE BUS
18 October 2024 Putco is urging all passengers to wait until the bus is fully stationery before alighting. In this way, they can avoid injury. Follow the rules and be a considerate road user so you can be safe. PutcoCares Our contacts Tshwane/Mpumalanga 012 003 003 1668 Soshanguve 012 003 1924 Soweto 010 003 6225/3889 […]
NEW BUSES FOR SOWETO AND SOSHANGUVE PASSENGERS
18 September 2024 Putco continues to deliver on its promise to provide brand new buses to its passengers for increased convenience and safety. Twenty buses have been delivered in the Greater Soweto region. These buses will be allocated shifts once the final administrative processes have been finalised with the Department of Transport and SmartTap machines […]
CIH AND LARIMAR GROUP CHAIR HOSTS WOMEN’S NETWORKING WEEKEND
31 August 2024 Women from Putco/Larimar attended the annual Community Investment Holdings’ Women’s Networking Weekend in Magaliesburg this weekend, which was hosted by Dr Anna Mokgokong who is the CIH’s Executive Chairperson as well as board Chairperson of the Larimar Group. Dr Mokgokong was recently bestowed with the Outstanding Leadership Award by the African Women […]
THANK YOU PUTCO
22 July 2024 Every brand new bus that Putco injects into its fleet, is not just a bus. It means comfort, convenience and safety for the passengers who use it. This is evident from a letter sent to Putco by the passengers of shift 9162 travelling from Soweto to Centurion daily. Can you image what […]
TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS STUDENTS VISIT DOBSONVILLE DEPOT
TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS STUDENTS VISIT DOBSONVILLE DEPOT 05 July 2024 In celebration of Youth Month, Putco partnered with transport consultancy company Fleetmax Africa to empower 23 students studying towards a qualification in transport and logistics at the South West Gauteng College’s Dube campus in Soweto on 26 June 2024. The programme aimed to equip students […]
NEW BUSES FOR TSHWANE/MPUMALANGA PASSENGERS
PASSENGER NOTICE TSHWANE/MPUMALANGA PASSENGERS 25 June 2024 Putco is excited to announce that four brand new buses have been introduced in the Tshwane/Mpumalanga operation! The bus numbers are 43662, 4363, 4364 and 4365 and two have been allocated to the Sun City and Moloto routes, one to Vlaklaagte and the other one to Machipe. The […]
Fraudulent Bus Ticket
28 March 2024 Investigations into the cause of the incident that left 32 people injured while they were trying to evacuate from a burning bus on the R573 near the Hammanskraal turn off, are still underway. Three people remain in hospital while the rest of the passengers were discharged after receiving medical treatment yesterday. None […]
300th BUS FOR TSHWANE/MPUMALANGA
26 March 2024 Mercedes-Benz bus number 300 of the new Putco fleet that arrived earlier this year, has been allocated to the Tshwane/Mpumalanga region, shift number 619, which operates routes in the areas of Allemansdrift, Marabastad and Big Tree. Top 10 Finalist in the Hollard Highway Heroes Competition 2023, Steve Maako, will be the driver […]
NEW NUMSA ALLEGATIONS STOOP TO NEW LOWS
To: All media Attention: Transport Journalists and Editors 21 February 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW NUMSA ALLEGATIONS STOOP TO NEW LOWS Putco is once again dismayed, but not surprised, by NUMSA and its members’ continuous and desperate campaign to tarnish the image of the Company. In its latest attack, the union has shared a video […]