Court battle over interstate travel targets Utah bus stops in Nevada, California

By SCOTT SONNER
Associated Press

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Utah-based bus company says the state of Nevada has “declared war” on its interstate travel services, seized one of its commercial vans and falsely accused it of operating unsafe vehicles. Nevada transportation officials argue the Salt Lake Express is engaged in an illegal scheme to evade regulation of its bus lines within the state by making quick trips across the California border at stops with no customers during treks to Las Vegas. The conflict has landed in federal court in Reno. It involves routes stretching from Nevada’s high desert into a California RV park in the mountains near Lake Tahoe and Death Valley nearly 400 miles away.