Abstract
In 1973, Allegheny County’s public transit agency, the Port Authority, declared bus driver Leonard Bruno “Driver of the Year.” A decade earlier, Bruno was not a government employee, but an entrepreneur who drove and maintained his own bus in a one-man operation,Carnegie Coach Lines. However, like all transit frms in Pennsylvania, his company was not free from government oversight. Te route he drove, the fares he charged, and other aspects of Bruno’s business were regulated bythe state Public Utility Commission.Te commission relinquished regulatory control when the Port Authority bought Carnegie Coach Lines and thirty-two other privately owned transit companies in Allegheny County in 1964 and 1965.