knight:
Coaches have people in them. Trucks don’t , Trucks win
For sure.Also,cleaning all them big windows inside and out at least once a day if you’re on tour.Finding somewhere to drop the bog,announcing the winner of ‘the person able to stuff the most items into the ashtray’ competition,coping with some professional moaners and,if you’ve got a bad group-trying not to think what their houses must be like if they leave the vehicle looking like a total tip.
Coach tax discs state “BUS” on them, no idea the difference between a bus and a coach is though…
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One I heard once was…A coach has the [zb] house at the rear,in a bus he’s at the front!!! I’m going to take cover now
EDIT: I do agree with Switchlogic’s post,I had a great time(mostly) on the coaches,and went to places and countries I’d never have seen otherwise.
daleyboy:
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?
The worse the job the better the pay, with some exceptions. Therefore you’ll get more on National Express than you would doing European holidays, but then you get the tips and other perks, such as extra excursions. You’d be lucky to pull in more than £300 or so on either of those, before tips etc. The exception is London, fairly close to pay as a truck driver working for one of the big London companies doing airport transfers, sightseeing, etc.
I’d say you’d be hard pressed to find a PSV licence holder who paid for his own licence. It’s the norm in that industry to put people through their test.
daleyboy:
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?
The worse the job the better the pay, with some exceptions. Therefore you’ll get more on National Express than you would doing European holidays, but then you get the tips and other perks, such as extra excursions. You’d be lucky to pull in more than £300 or so on either of those, before tips etc. The exception is London, fairly close to pay as a truck driver working for one of the big London companies doing airport transfers, sightseeing, etc.
I’d say you’d be hard pressed to find a PSV licence holder who paid for his own licence. It’s the norm in that industry to put people through their test.
The down side of your employer putting you through the test is that you are committed to work for them for a set period or repay some of the cost of your training if you leave early. I paid for all my tests and therefore remained a free agent.
daleyboy:
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?
The worse the job the better the pay, with some exceptions. Therefore you’ll get more on National Express than you would doing European holidays, but then you get the tips and other perks, such as extra excursions. You’d be lucky to pull in more than £300 or so on either of those, before tips etc. The exception is London, fairly close to pay as a truck driver working for one of the big London companies doing airport transfers, sightseeing, etc.
I’d say you’d be hard pressed to find a PSV licence holder who paid for his own licence. It’s the norm in that industry to put people through their test.
The down side of your employer putting you through the test is that you are committed to work for them for a set period or repay some of the cost of your training if you leave early. I paid for all my tests and therefore remained a free agent.
Or you get sacked, then when they send you a bill, you say “I didn’t leave, and I’m happy to come back and work the rest of my bonded period” to which they wipe the slate
For me the ‘fun’ went out of coach driving back in the mid 90’s when an auto box became the norm and a manual box became the exception although having done plenty of NatEx work and seen the gear changing abilty of some of the drivers its not hard to see why this happened.
