6 people found riding in luggage area of bus

Associated Press

GLADWIN, Mich.

A tour company based in northern Michigan has been ordered by federal transportation officials to cease operations and take its coaches out of service after six people were found traveling in the luggage compartment of a bus in Ohio.

The out-of-service order named Roger Haines and Haines Tours of Gladwin.

Issued Friday by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the order claims that on May 27, an Ohio State Highway Patrol officer found six of 62 passengers in a luggage area during an inspection of a bus traveling from Roscommon, Mich., to Clyde, Ohio.

The driver told the officer that the passengers were riding with the luggage because there was no more room on the bus, according to the order.