Putco (Pty) Ltd, is a subsidiary of The Larimar Group, with interests in the public transport passenger sector. Our group of companies include Putco, Carleo Insurance Brokers, Truck Centre Durban, the Larimar Training Academy, VOMS Industrial, Larimar Financing and Leasing Services as well as Larimar Properties.

Putco has a fleet of 1 400 buses and transports more than 210 000 passengers daily. The company operates in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and parts of Limpopo. The Putco fleet travels approximately 82 million kilometres per year or 290 000 kilometres per day. We employ more than 2500 employees and 1 600 are drivers, 69 of which are female drivers. We constantly recruit and train female drivers through our learnership programme as we seek to create a gender-balance in our organisation.

Our operating hours are from 02h30 to 22h00.

Mr. Franco Pisapia has been the Managing Director since September 2004. He is also a Director of Carleo Enterprise (Pty) Ltd and Carleo Investment (Pty) Ltd.

We are proud that of our commitment to empowerment that has seen our company reflect the demographics of our country.

This success is also reflected in the entire Larimar Group, which is the holding company) and is now 51% black-owned. Women, people with disabilities and employees own the rest of the shares.