Won’t say which but city bus depot we used to do occasional work for had issues with buses always having defects when VOSA spot checked. Problem was then chaos in the city with bus routes cancelled. VOSA examiners weren’t happy to personally sign off a bus with for example defective brakes so an arrangement was reached where VOSA would give the bus depot advance notice of when their ‘surprise’ spot check would be so they could make sure the buses in the best condition were at the depot and the rest were out and even then they struggled to make sure they were all defect free.
This wasn’t in the mists of time probably only about ten or so years ago so doubt much has changed.
sammym:
Different for a trucker to night out - to having all the passengers sleep on their seats for 9/11 hours!
Quite sure you’ve been to university?
Coach driver pulls into services. Coach company arrange for another driver to get to services and take over or another coach to change the passengers onto.
sammym:
Different for a trucker to night out - to having all the passengers sleep on their seats for 9/11 hours!
Quite sure you’ve been to university?
Coach driver pulls into services. Coach company arrange for another driver to get to services and take over or another coach to change the passengers onto.
I’ve never studied bus driving. And I’ve never done any of it. I’ll leave that as your specialist topic on mastermind.
sammym:
Different for a trucker to night out - to having all the passengers sleep on their seats for 9/11 hours!
Quite sure you’ve been to university?
Coach driver pulls into services. Coach company arrange for another driver to get to services and take over or another coach to change the passengers onto.
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with the previous standard of posting,then if he ever was at a university then it was because he got a job as a janitor.
Someone mentioned Parks of Hamilton above.From my early days of lorry driving with top speeds of approx.45mph and decibel levels higher than a harrier jet’s(in the late 60s/early 70s)I recall 2 other coach companies whose speeds were remarkable.Yelloway Coaches (Blackpool?)and a welsh outfit(Ferris?)who were otherwise known as Sough Wales Airways.
I once had a pleasant enough job for a summer season from Woodall to Chiasso double manning a double decker coach towing a trailer full of bicycles.Families with children would be going to Lido near Venice and cyclists would be picked up and dropped off at numerous places en route.It would be fair to say that the two groups didn’t get on well.You can imagine cyclists after a couple of weeks in the same lycra!
Sorry,I seem to have drifted off topic in the memory of it.
toby1234abc:
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 .
I’ve often wondered what would happen if someone attempted to give that explanation to a DVSA officer asking why they had a Card Inserted/Removed While Driving event
Own Account Driver:
Won’t say which but city bus depot we used to do occasional work for had issues with buses always having defects when VOSA spot checked. Problem was then chaos in the city with bus routes cancelled. VOSA examiners weren’t happy to personally sign off a bus with for example defective brakes so an arrangement was reached where VOSA would give the bus depot advance notice of when their ‘surprise’ spot check would be so they could make sure the buses in the best condition were at the depot and the rest were out and even then they struggled to make sure they were all defect free.
This wasn’t in the mists of time probably only about ten or so years ago so doubt much has changed.
“VOSA are at town bus station. Go and take bus. I don’t care where, just get it out of their sight!”
considerably less than that many years ago
toby1234abc:
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 .
I’ve often wondered what would happen if someone attempted to give that explanation to a DVSA officer asking why they had a Card Inserted/Removed While Driving event
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a driver from a mob i worked for a cpl years ago got told carlisle was open when heading for the boat.
he swapped cards around southwaite and being on ni plates,unsurprisingly got a tug.
conversation as follow.
where did you start driving.
southwaite.
wheres the previous driver?
away home.
is he in carlisle hospital?
no,why?
because according to your tacho,you swapped over doing 56mph.
what followed ended up as charged with fraud and a fine of i think £450 in court.
