Yellow Bus Line

Yellow Bus Line, Inc. (YBLI) is a General Santos–headquartered operator serving central and southern Mindanao. The Yap family of Koronadal (then Marbel), South Cotabato established it on July 13, 1958, and it began running that September 19 as a sole proprietorship under Antonio C. Yap — six units on the Marbel–Cagayan de Oro road. It was incorporated on December 10, 1976 and started commercial operation the following January. It famously pioneered fixed regular wages for drivers and conductors in the Philippine bus industry, and is now the second largest operator in Mindanao with more than 200 units.

Its first route was Cagayan de Oro–Koronadal; in 1978 it shifted to the Davao–General Santos–Marbel corridor it still anchors on today, expanding across South Cotabato, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, Cotabato, Davao del Sur, and Maguindanao. Its service classes track that growth: before 2011 it ran the non-air-conditioned Super Deluxe alongside the air-conditioned Mabuhay Class, then added Premiere Class in 2011 on newly bought Higer and Yutong units, and Executive Class in 2012, both with on-board WiFi. It works from its General Santos (Bulaong) and Koronadal terminals.

On MindaRide it runs air-conditioned and ordinary coaches in regular and non-stop classes between the Bulaong terminal in General Santos and the Davao overland terminal, calling at Digos, Koronadal (Marbel), Tacurong, and Sen. Ninoy Aquino, with a separate General Santos–Maitum run down the Sarangani coast.