The privately owned Modesto Motor Bus Service (MBS) took over and ran transit operations in Modesto through 1973, serving a peak of one million riders in 1945 due to wartime shortages of gasoline and automobiles.
A private firm, the Modesto Motor Bus Service (MBS), managed public transportation in Modesto from 1945 to 1973, achieving a peak ridership of one million that year because of wartime shortages of gasoline and automobiles.