Earlier this month, TriMet announced that it was reducing service on nearly a quarter of its bus routes because of an unprecedented driver shortage - and that's despite raising pay and bonuses to new drivers. The pandemic has taken a toll on other large mass transit providers as ridership has plummeted, budgets have contracted and labor woes have mounted. But what has the impact been like on rural transit providers who typically have smaller budgets to cover larger service areas than their metro counterparts? We hear from Doug Pilant, the general manager of the Tillamook County Transportation District; Adrian Mateos, the general manager of the Basin Transit Service in Klamath Falls; and Rob Johnson, the transit fleet safety and maintenance manager of Kayak Public Transit in Pendleton.