Coffeeholic:
DAF95XF:
merc0447:
Buses = peopleI don’t like people and i don’t like buses
Shame I drive a coach then innit
A coach is just a bus with ideas above it’s station.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it’s a duck.
Coach tax discs state “BUS” on them, no idea the difference between a bus and a coach is though…
knight:
Coaches have people in them. Trucks don’t , Trucks win
I go faster though
Rob K:
Go on, do us some diaries. Would make for interesting reading especially if you can do us some piccies as well (just don’t take them while driving like I do if you’ve got pax onboard
).
I wouldnt even dream of even looking at it with passengers on…
DAF95XF:
Coffeeholic:
DAF95XF:
merc0447:
Buses = peopleI don’t like people and i don’t like buses
Shame I drive a coach then innit
A coach is just a bus with ideas above it’s station.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it’s a duck.
Coach tax discs state “BUS” on them, no idea the difference between a bus and a coach is though…
A coach is pulled by horses.
People call themselves coach drivers because they think they are better tan bus drivers.
Ben9:
People call themselves coach drivers because they think they are better tan bus drivers.
Tan bus drivers? Would they be bus drivers hailing from the Subcontinent old chap? 
DAF95XF:
And Ive also noticed that 9 times out of 10 I’ll overtake a Stobart and they’ll flash me in, most other drivers dont
I don’t bother flashing Coaches, why would I need too, your going so ■■■■ fast by the time I’ve flashed your already 1/2 mile away So unfair that Coaches don’t have limiters and Trucks do, so I think your a zb for being able to do 60 when trucks can legally but not because of the limiter. 
Truck cargo = quiet, bus / coach cargo = noisy, abusive, opinionated ■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■ - as a rule.
Can’t remember when I last had to clean the toilet in my wagon after someone else decided they needed a ■■■■ on a 20 min rail replacement.
Only person I clean my truck up after is me, not 50 snotty noise spoilt little ■■■■■■ kids going to a school out of the area because it’s better - shame the kids are the same eh?
I got paid to learn to drive a coach, I paid to learn to drive a truck (after 7yrs of coach driving), that alone should tell you something.
I suppose the biggest disadvantage when you drive a coach is that your load is either very noisy or it smells of ■■■■.
Harry Monk:
I suppose the biggest disadvantage when you drive a coach is that your load is either very noisy or it smells of ■■■■.
But gives you a big tip when they get off
waynedl:
I got paid to learn to drive a coach, I paid to learn to drive a truck (after 7yrs of coach driving), that alone should tell you something.
Me too - Stagecoach paid me to do my bus, I paid to do both my truck one…
Lycanthrope:
I don’t bother flashing Coaches, why would I need too, your going so ■■■■ fast by the time I’ve flashed your already 1/2 mile away
They do - 100kmh
so I think your a zb for being able to do 60 when trucks can legally but not because of the limiter.
I did 7 years on greenline for arriva out of Maidstone and I have to say it’s alot like the container work I am doing now, loads of sleep, 5/6 hours driving per day, your load gets tipped for you and even the money is similar.
I could never be a bus driver … All those people talking behind your back …
Still that’s a bit like working for DHL I suppose ……
With the bus/coach there is no ZB about 2 years experience.Also they usualy load and unload themselves.
What’s the pay like for a coach driver? Say a national express driver and a diver working for a small company?
What about the cost of doing your test?
Coffeeholic:
DAF95XF:
Im not going to do a detailed description of comparing the 2 jobs together but just a few observations…
Coach driving - you’re parked in a coach park and other drivers talk to you and make you tea/coffeeSounds horrendous. I’ve seen coach driver’s on the ferries and they all have a road map of their weeks menu on their ties, a bloody flashing thing in their ear at all times, as if they are scared of missing an important call from the Dalai Lama, and are far to quick to want to tell you about the 18 year old nymphos, often twins or sisters, who look like models and throw themselves at them on every trip. Must be the meal stained uniform that is the turn on, can’t surely be the fat [zb] with the flashing ear.
DAF95XF:
Truck driving - nobody makes an effort to talkPerfect, just the way I like it. I don’t want to listen to some testicle sac telling me how bad their boss/the job/their life is or suffer hearing about their ■■■ life.
DAF95XF:
Coach driving - you can get either free food and drink (Norton Canes services) or for 1pVastly overpriced at either of those prices. Why would anybody willingly put the food from those places into their body?
DAF95XF:
Truck driving - you have to pay full whackYou don’t HAVE to.
DAF95XF:
Coach driving - not very comfy to sleep on for a few hours, though my coach is one of about 3 fitted with a Webasto heaterHow have you got time for sleeping? You are too busy eating muck and listening to ■■■■■■■■.
DAF95XF:
Truck driving - you’ve got a bunkIndeed
DAF95XF:
And Ive also noticed that 9 times out of 10 I’ll overtake a Stobart and they’ll flash me in, most other drivers dontWhy do you need flashing in? Don’t you know where the back of your coach is or are the mirrors really crap?
So, coach driving is great because you get to eat crap for free, you spend a lot of time in MSA’s and Stobart drivers flash you in? Where do I sign up?
ha ha quality dont think ad fancy driving a coach al stick to the truck. coaches always appear to be in a mad rush speed limits dont apply must be a pain of a job hurry.hurry.hurry
having done both jobs id say truck driving is far better as the load doesnt talk to you ,ask daft questions ,although at least the load does unload itself 
knight:
Coaches have people in them. Trucks don’t , Trucks win
Indeed. I couldn’t be doing with passengers. Imagine a days motorway driving with sing songs/giggling women/whining from the travel sick/crying kids/big mouths/listening to a film you can’t watch. My idea of hell.
Without the passegers, coach driving is a great job.
I was a coach driver first. I was put through my test to drive buses at 19 and did a couple of years of local work. I then went to London, worked for The Londoners & Clarkes of London. Did Europe with Parnhams and The Glider. Did six months of National Express. I was driving coaches for four years after passing my HGV, all the time trying endlessly to get a truck driving job but driving passengers all over Europe alone was no good as experience.
Some of the best times of my life have been coach driving. I’ve seen sights all over Europe, stayed in some magnificent hotels, eaten some amazing food, met some brilliant passengers from all over the world, done lots of free snowboarding, visited loads of attractions for free. It gave me my great love of London. When you’ve taken a group of people on holiday as a driver/guide and they come back really happy at having had a great time the feeling you get at being responsible for it never happens driving a truck. Like anything if you take the time to choose your jobs and enter with the right attitude it can be a fantastic job. That said I have no intention to go back, my heart was always in trucks and I’m doing my dream job now for a brilliant company.
Sorry for going on but just thought somebody needed to speak up for coaches!
