States have authority to impose their own rules and regulations within their borders. The dispute centers largely on disagreement over the point where intrastate travel - trips within the same state - ends, and interstate travel between states begins. is the perfect opening line for the rest of their motion full of hyperbole and flash, but short of any legal or factual basis,” they wrote in recent court filings. The company’s claim that the authority “has declared war on Salt Lake Express. “The loss of the vehicle, the trauma to the employee driver, the stranded passengers, the constant threat of another impound seizure have combined to make the situation volatile and dangerous,” they said.Īttorney General Aaron Ford and his deputies maintain the Nevada Transportation Authority “has not treated Salt Lake Express unfairly in any way.” was embarrassing and caused the company to commit the unpardonable sin for a public carrier - it left passengers stranded with no alternative way to help them,” the Salt Lake Express wrote in recent court filings. “The seizure and impound of the van belonging to Salt Lake Express in Reno on May 17. The company’s lawyers say they’ve been forced to seek federal protection because “the Nevada Transportation Authority has declared war on Salt Lake Express.”
