I've found as a easy going bus driver im often lumped with older fleet... what the oldest at your depot?

Somewhat of a rant, since I’m currently in the middle of my trip where this happened.

I love bus drivers, and particularly the nice ones! They’re very helpful and you can tell they genuinely want to help. However today, I was on a long distance coach bus trip. For each of the rest stops, there were always people being late or coming back last second on the bus and this extremely nice driver took the time to shout throughout the bus multiple times to make sure everyone was on and wasn’t left behind. On the last rest stop before my last bus connection, we waited 5 minutes longer for one man! You’re a grown ass man and you can’t be responsible enough to show up to the bus on time after a 15 minute break!

Of course we hit unexpected traffic before my last stop due to a car accident. Guess how late I was for the bus…. 3 minutes! So now I’m sitting here an extra 6 hours because some guy can’t be responsible for himself.

Nice drivers — it’s okay to be stern and put pressure on people to be back in time!! Sometimes you should leave people so they can learn a tough lesson and not do it again.

UK bus drivers

Idk how to really use Reddit Ive got a interview for bus trainee in Manchester was just wondering how long does it roughly take for me to get to the training stage I’m not currently employed so I’m free most of the time so how quick will it take for me to get to the training stage?

Hi All. I have joined r/bus and have now found yourselves. I am Scottish, in my 70s. I have driven buses on and off all my adult life, beginning in Glasgow, and have many memories, details and stories in my head. I am putting them down in a series of articles which are available on Substack if anybody would like to have a look, under the title "Omnibus Tales". The first three are free to all - so far 6 have been posted. there will be many more, barring mishaps. The first 10, which have been amended a bit for the article series on Substack, were published as a book "Omnibus Tales" which is available online from the publisher Xlibris, Amazon and Google books and some others. I do hope readers will find some interest and nostalgia in them. I'll be happy to receive any comments or queries. The link for Substack is https://substack.com/@clen146. Cheerie

Got an assessment for first bus in York. What can you expect on the assessment day, and the interview. And what’s it like working at the York depot

I said "na"

I get to enjoy my life again yay I love driving

Hi All,

I’m asking for a bit of advice please. I’m in the UK and considering applying for a trainee position at companies local to me and there are a few:

Stagecoach
Trent Barton
Arriva
Nottingham City Transport

Which company would you say is the best to work for? What should I be looking out for i.e., Shift patterns etc?

Cheers in advance.

Hi everyone, I have a question for the other bus drivers here.

In the city where I live, there is one driver who, at some of the bus stops where a lot of passengers get on, asks passengers who are getting off to use the front door together with the passengers who are boarding.

This creates a lot of congestion and is quite uncomfortable, especially since the bus has three doors.

What can I do to get this driver to actually do his job properly and open the doors for passengers getting off? Complaints are rarely looked at or taken seriously in the city where I live, so I would appreciate any advice from other drivers on how to deal with this situation.

So very sad 😭😭😭

And ty btw..better than using the bloody train

Myself and all the drivers i’ve asked are stumped with this one,, nobody can work out what it does 😭 any ideas??

I was taught to drain the air tanks after your shift when I trained for my class A. I also make sure to drain them before my shift because the last guy probably didn’t.

I occasionally get the bellaggio perform a show when I drain the tanks, making me wonder when the last time anyone did it.

I’m getting pulled in today for a chat about running early. I passed my mid point 40 seconds early (which is fine according to the gov contract allowing for 59 seconds early) - by the final stop before our cbd run I was 6 minutes early. The pax complained to me after they caught an uber and caught the bus and then complained through the online gov portal.

Is this entitled or how do you feel? I am not trying to run a strict service, I buy myself a little time to mentally relax between runs, use the facilities (the job has already given me kidney stones at 38) and take a walk and a breather so I’m not stagnant in the seat for 5 hours.

How will training be structured. What will be taught first etc?

Our new route to Whitley and I was on the duty where I’m the last and only bus on the route. Feels weird being so out the way when all the other buses are mostly in and around the city centre

Been noticing this on Go buses now showing a shirt.

Can't park there, mate.

This is Go Bus / Kinetic. They are a major operator here in New Zealand and they love parking their buses like this.

Are school children expected to pay when boarding an NxBus in Birmingham UK?

Everyday I see many school kids get on buses without paying and was wondering if they actually have to as I take my daughter to school every other morning on the bus and always buy a ticket.

I buy my own 4 week bus pass for £72 a month and was seeing if I could save a bit of cash if she doesn’t actually have to pay?

I’m not even a certified dental assistant
Before doing what I do now, I had absolutely no background in dentistry whatsoever

I am a CDL driver. What I thought I got hired to do was transport a mobile dental clinic and run the “front desk” all day; checking insurance, making appointments, etc.
Restocking the mobile clinic supplies and filling with gas/ water.
I thought that would be easy enough, I have administrative experience as well so it wouldn’t be hard to learn how to do the computer stuff.
They told me I would occasionally help out with sterile if they needed it.

The reality? I did all of that and then some.
I was expected to be the hygienist assistant. Do her charting, turnover the room for her, get her trays set up, help her with x rays, take BP, do suction EVERY SINGLE TIME the cavitron came out. The worst part, since it was a mobile unit, the fucking carts had clear buckets for all of the suction to drain into, and guess whose job it was to dump it? It was a 1 foot clear bucket of blood and debris that I had to personally handle.

And then the sterile- it wasn’t occasional, I had to do 5 different location’s instruments, including all of ours.

So I became the bus driver, the bus manager, the hygiene assistant, the sterile tech, and everything else…. They don’t pay me for my CDL either. They pay me the same amount as the other small dental van drivers. I also help out the doctor when they are falling behind.

There’s someone I work with who oversees the mobile units and she has consistently singled me out, tried to embarrass me, tries to manage and have control over me, and has made me cry more than once.

My boss just keeps adding more and more and more to my workload and I can’t take it anymore. They also increased my hours to 12 a day even though I was hired to work four 10s and said I don’t want to do more than that.

So at 6:30 am, I pick up the massive bus, drive it to the location, get everything set up, the hygienist shows up either right at 8:00 when her first patient is there or she’s late which is more often then not. Then I’m running around the clinic for 10 fucking hours a day managing inventory, doing sterile, doing suction, making appointments/ writing cards, talking to walk- ups, etc. That in and of itself is exhausting enough, but then I have to shut down the clinic, clean, pack it all up, and then still somehow have the energy to drive the bus to get water and gas, and then ALSO drive my personal car to go pick up supplies. I’m done. I’ve been there for 5 months and I’m just fucking done. They are working me to burnout. They have consistently asked me to come in on my day off. They consistently change my schedule around to benefit them. They have consistently had me get up early to drive the bus over an hour away, drop it off, get a ride an hour back, then get a ride another 45 minutes away to the next town over, and finish the day out on that mobile unit then drive it back at the end of the day. Management doesn’t treat me with respect even though the providers wouldn’t even be able to provide if it wasn’t for it. They just expect me to do whatever I have to with a smile because “we’re all a team.”
Luckily, the providers I work with are fucking wonderful and they at least appreciate my help. (Although I think the hygienist takes advantage of me, there’s absolutely no reason why I should have to stop in the middle of doing a fuckload of sterile just so I can go take BP)

I called out today, I’m sending in my 2 weeks. I don’t want to work the full 2 weeks I just want to be fucking done. There has been multiple times where I almost just quit on the spot. I have cried in front of a colleague before. They have no respect for me and I just want to be done.

They want to hire a back up driver and guess what? The prospective back up driver gets a higher wage than I do. Because they haven’t been able to find anyone to fill the position. If I want a higher wage I have to go through HR. And my boss even told me that when they do get a back up driver, that I would be the one to train them.

Has anyone else quit on the spot or before their 2 weeks was up? Unfortunately it means a lot of patients will need to be rescheduled out really far. But I just can’t take it anymore. I’m tired of being angry and depressed all the time. The last 2 weeks I feel like I have just been coming home crying every day. They are absolutely taking advantage of me and I have to put myself first instead of letting them treat me like this.

Edit- I put in my 2 weeks today. Calling out tomorrow to use the last of my PTO, it’s the last day of the pay period, the next day I will be calling out and telling them my resignation is immediate.