Did anyone see the new BBC one series , on weekly from 11 am, with Dom Littlewood, called ; Dom on the spot ?
On today`s episode, DVSA had a checkpoint, which i think was in London, i missed the first half of it.
A mini bus driver with Oriental tourists was stopped, the driver said, he did not have enough room to carry all his cards in his wallet , and presented a photocopy of the DCPC card, he was let off with a warning, and the DVSA lady said, let the tourists carry on with the tour.
A double decker coach was found with a defected tire, the DVSA inspector put a tool in the hole in the side of it, to prong for damaged wires in the tire wall.
The driver was allowed an hour to arrange a fitter , the driver said, the fitter would take over an hour, so the DVSA said, carry on to the depot, but do not go over 30 mph .
If these were lorries,it would be a different outcome .
That Dominic Littlewood, what a [zb] bellend he is. I don’t agree with the leniency in these cases, if there are rules then they should be across the board, but that little [zb] makes me laugh.
Rentadent:
That Dominic Littlewood, what a [zb] bellend he is. I don’t agree with the leniency in these cases, if there are rules then they should be across the board, but that little [zb] makes me laugh.
Don’t know dominic littlewood, but I agree completely with your other point.
toby1234abc:
A mini bus driver with Oriental tourists was stopped, the driver said, he did not have enough room to carry all his cards in his wallet , and presented a photocopy of the DCPC card, he was let off with a warning, and the DVSA lady said, let the tourists carry on with the tour.
He didn’t have enough room to carry a card but had enough to carry a photocopy!!
Serious question.
Well 2 really
Your a coach driver you have coach full passengers. Something happens bad crash motorway shut etc. And you run out of driving time what happens?
edd1974:
Serious question.
Well 2 really
Your a coach driver you have coach full passengers. Something happens bad crash motorway shut etc. And you run out of driving time what happens?
Turn to the passengers and ask if anyone has a Cat D licence?
edd1974:
Serious question.
Well 2 really
Your a coach driver you have coach full passengers. Something happens bad crash motorway shut etc. And you run out of driving time what happens?
Find the next available safe place for you and your passengers to stop, oh look it just happens to be your destination, what are the chances of that eh!
edd1974:
Serious question.
Well 2 really
Your a coach driver you have coach full passengers. Something happens bad crash motorway shut etc. And you run out of driving time what happens?
You exercise common sense and carry on to the next services
Surely is the same as if your about to run out of hours driving a lorry, i.e. when it becomes unexpectedly impossible to comply with the drivers regulations you proceed to the nearest safe place and write the reason for doing so on the back of a print out. Having driven for 5 hours 23 minutes due to the fact the M25 was [zb] in every direction and for some reason I thought going the long way around from Gatwick to the M1 might be quicker?!? Presumed incorrectly that I’d make it as for as Toddington (but didn’t before time was up) but was unable to park a longer semi trailer in limited room there so took the sensible decision to go to next services and stop there fo a 45.
ytrehodluap:
Surely is the same as if your about to run out of hours driving a lorry, i.e. when it becomes unexpectedly impossible to comply with the drivers regulations you proceed to the nearest safe place and write the reason for doing so on the back of a print out. Having driven for 5 hours 23 minutes due to the fact the M25 was [zb] in every direction and for some reason I thought going the long way around from Gatwick to the M1 might be quicker?!? Presumed incorrectly that I’d make it as for as Toddington (but didn’t before time was up) but was unable to park a longer semi trailer in limited room there so took the sensible decision to go to next services and stop there fo a 45.
Different for a trucker to night out - to having all the passengers sleep on their seats for 9/11 hours!
edd1974:
Serious question.
Well 2 really
Your a coach driver you have coach full passengers. Something happens bad crash motorway shut etc. And you run out of driving time what happens?
I was actually on a coach many years ago when that happened. I was still at school though and we went on a school trip to Paris. On the way back there was an accident on the M6 and the driver ran out of time at Knutsford. They sent out another driver to meet us and carried on. I’m not sure if that was only because it was a coach full of kids but I would guess that’s what happens with all coaches.
edd1974:
Serious question.
Well 2 really
Your a coach driver you have coach full passengers. Something happens bad crash motorway shut etc. And you run out of driving time what happens?
One would imagine the coach industry’s pointy shoed brigade plan slightly less heavily than the haulage lot so as to avoid this happening. I might be naive in thinking that though.
edd1974:
Serious question.
Well 2 really
Your a coach driver you have coach full passengers. Something happens bad crash motorway shut etc. And you run out of driving time what happens?
One would imagine the coach industry’s pointy shoed brigade plan slightly less heavily than the haulage lot so as to avoid this happening. I might be naive in thinking that though.
My misses her brother was bus driver. He lives in Inverness.
Anyway company needed a driver take load school kids from Inverness to some outdoor activity centre place near shrewsbury. Drop an off couple days in hotel paid for day trip to Alton towers then back.
He manged Inverness to Shrewsbury in his hours. Asked him how. As be pushing to do it I a wagon. Said not limited so.can go.flat out. With coach full of kids. And all that distance
i posted it before,but i can remember years ago a parks of hamilton coach heading down south from glasgow area.
he got as far as forton services before stopping for a pee break and when all the passengers got off,they point blank refused to get back on as the driver was flat to the mat all the way down and parks had to send another relief driver to take over and keep them happy.
A very long time ago, it was common practice for a coach driver to swap seats while driving, the trick was to wait for the passengers to be asleep.
Driver one keeps the foot on the gas, driver two slides over to the drivers seat, not sure how they fiddled the tacho while swapping over .
dieseldog999:
i posted it before,but i can remember years ago a parks of hamilton coach heading down south from glasgow area.
he got as far as forton services before stopping for a pee break and when all the passengers got off,they point blank refused to get back on as the driver was flat to the mat all the way down and parks had to send another relief driver to take over and keep them happy.
