page_title: Dagupan Bus Company
section_title: Issues and Controversies
hierarchical_section_title: Dagupan Bus Company / History / Issues and Controversies
caption_attribution_description: English: Town Hall complex in Town Proper (in List of barangays in Pangasinan, Barangays of Pangasinan, April 13, 2016 is the Fiesta, Barangay Poblacion, beside Barangay Pugaro, Manaoag, Pangasinan, Pangasinan Province along the Poblacion-Pugaro, Manaoag, Pangasinan Farm to Market Road along the Manaoag-Urdaneta, Pangasinan Provincial Road interconnecting with and from MacArthur Highway (Binalonan, Pangasinan section) and MacArthur Highway (Urdaneta, Pangasinan section) of MacArthur Highway or Manila North Road gateway to Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway (TIPLex, Carmen, Rosales-Urdaneta, Pangasinan section) of Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway).
context_page_description: Dagupan Bus Co., Inc. or simply known as Dagupan Bus was a provincial bus company based from Dagupan City, Pangasinan. This company was a sister company of Saulog Transit up until the company's management was transferred to JAC Liner Inc., and Genesis Transport following Dagupan Bus' soldout in 2015.
context_section_description: The Quezon City Regional Trial Court issued the writ of preliminary injunction against the Saulog group of companies who attempted to sell their stocks to other bus companies.
  Another controversy regarding Saulog Transit Inc. and Dagupan Bus Co., Inc. was a conflict which sparked between the Saulog stakeholders after the assassinations of their ancestors. Eliseo Saulog, the founder of Saulog Transit Inc. and father of the Saulog children, Ignacio Saulog, Luciano Saulog, Teodoro Saulog, Virginia Saulog, Dr. Melquiades Saulog, Maura Saulog-Aguinaldo, Lilia Saulog-Venturina, and Dr. Marietta Saulog-Vergara, was shot and killed in 1960 by an unidentified gunman, while the family patriarch, Ruben Saulog, father of the current chief executive and one of the eight children of the founder, was also assassinated in 1990. Until then, the case of such killings were still uncertain and unresolved. The attempts to sell the two companies were assured by the lawyer Bernard Saulog, who got 75% of the total ₱1.4 B assets, while the remaining 25% were given to the rest of the clan members. Unfortunately, Teodoro Saulog and his clan members refused to give up Saulog Transit Inc. and Dagupan Bus Co., Inc.
  In 2014, Dagupan Bus Co., Inc together with Mt. Province Cable Tours sold their franchises to G.V. Florida Transport for their routes in Baguio City to areas within Benguet and Mountain Province. It underwent a "private transaction" between the said companies, and the franchise rights were failed to be transferred from Dagupan Bus and Mt. Province Cable Tours to G.V. Florida. The said "private transaction" was not honored by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), and was never known of, until February 2013, where one of their units fell into a ravine, killing 15 of its passengers. It resulted to them being suspended for 30 days and paying for damages.
caption: A Dagupan Bus painted with JAC Liner's livery, a result to Dagupan Bus Co, Inc. 1533 soldout in 2015.
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