A chicken bus (Spanish: "camioneta de pollos" or "trambilla", the latter a hypercorrection of "tranvía") is a colloquial English name for a colorful, modified and decorated bus that transports goods and people between communities in various Latin American countries, especially Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama.
The base vehicle is usually a retired North American school bus on a light or medium truck chassis.
The word "chicken" may refer to the fact that the buses are often crammed with passengers not unlike a truck load of chickens,[1] or to the fact that Central Americans occasionally transport live animals on such buses–a practice that visitors from other countries often find remarkable.[2][3]
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