Buses, coaches, & lorries

Yes rgc you are absolutely correct that HGV men drove much more smoothly than a small a proportion of PSV drivers especially if the HGV driver had worked on transporting live stock the showing same care to their human cargos. A lot of genuine enthusiastic PSV drivers were excellent men too but there was always a small minority in a bus depot who started their shift with the sole intention of wrecking a semi auto box before their shift was over with very little or no consideration for the passengers especially if their allocated bus was a bit of a dog and they could break it hoping to get a better vehicle to finish their shift. This minority also abused or could not handle manual syncromesh or crash boxes or clutches just bang it through if possible and to hell with the consequences and the same methods appied to braking just full pressure stops no gradual applications. Some fairly recent bus journeys have shown excellent examples of good driving and some the entire opposite.
Cheers, Leyland 600.