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One of the latest companies to receive post-STC Highway Traffic Board approval is no stranger to Saskatchewan highways.

Engelheim Charter, a Regina-area bus company since 1975, has been successful in having its operating authority certificate amended.

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Come fall, Engelheim may offer individual passenger service as a result.

“Our focus is safe passenger transportation and if there is a viable place to do that, we will,” said CEO Shane Engel, whose parents Oliver and Gladys Engel started the company in Lipton 42 years ago.

“STC was losing $17 million a year for a reason. … (It had) a small number of passengers per route, even the major routes, but it heavily relied on there being freight to make it viable, and we have no interest in getting involved in freight.”

Now based in White City, Engelheim has 30 employees and 24 buses that can carry at least 47 passengers each.

Before the amendment, the company was allowed to do charter service only. On Monday, it had buses on the road in Tacoma, Wash., Langley, B.C., Calgary and Winnipeg.