A Government Senator has suggested that the Public Service Vehicle (PSV) sector should be viewed as a public utility and regulated as such to stamp out the unsavoury behaviour plaguing the industry.Contributing to debate in the Upper House on the Road Traffic (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2022, Senator Gregory Nicholls said the problems with PSV operators who were often involved in reckless acts on the roads and substandard service could be addressed with proper oversight.“I do believe that the Transport Authority has to start to take a more serious look at how the sector is regulated.“I, for one, if I had to do it I believe that you would not have any issues about uniforms…. They [PSVs] would be owned by private individuals but they would be run in a system where you could create an algorithm to determine how the vehicles are distributed across the routes to service the public. Like in any organised society, there is not a free-for-all in public transport, and I think that is where we have missed the boat,” he said.