Buses are as badly managed as trucks…
merc0447:
She had been with first bus since June and this was her first week unsupervised. So I reckon she is a complete newbie!I don’t know if you can judge her actions in the aftermath, that is a major crash she would have been in severe shock after that. Not everyone can be a superhero and jump into action.
I suggest she look for a different career though.
Yes, but contrary to popular belief, not everyone is cut out for driving for a living, male or female. I’ve seen women driving trucks and buses just as good, if not better than blokes, but on the other hand some blokes are a bad joke behind the wheel.
During the training period would it not be good practice for the trainer to give an instruction to turn towards a road containing a bridge.
If the driver does not
see the signs or
question the trainers instructions or attempts to use the indicators to make a turn.
The trainer would ask the driver to stop the vehicle and take account of their actions…
I know that as HGV we learn from observation and a book but with passengers lives is this not different.
Was her training totally adequate. Is the driver totally to blame for a newbie.
look out for a new open top bus tour around Rochdale soon 
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During the training period would it not be good practice for the trainer to give an instruction to turn towards a road containing a bridge.If the driver does not
see the signs or
question the trainers instructions or attempts to use the indicators to make a turn.The trainer would ask the driver to stop the vehicle and take account of their actions…
I know that as HGV we learn from observation and a book but with passengers lives is this not different.
Was her training totally adequate. Is the driver totally to blame for a newbie.
That’s exactly what my instructor did when I worked for First Manchester, and god help you if you turned down a restricted road 
rambo19:
I reckon more lorries hit bridges than buses.
Speaking for myself,i have never hit a bridge or a bus.
When I drove service buses back in the late 70’s bridge strikes were usually down to the double decker being diverted by a road closure and the driver either failing to notice the bridge height OR the driver had been on single deckers for a while and forgot this was a double decker.
May sound odd to people who have not driven buses but you can easily forget you are driving a double decker. Anyway the result should be dismissal as there is no excuse for failing to see how low this bridge was 
it didn’t just skim the roof! 
Driver relieved of her duties, 2nd incident since June
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma … r-34232839
When I was on the buses we had a new route (from our depot) that went up to Runcorn back in the eighties, on the first day a driver went out whizzing around the route on the busway as happy as larry made up he remembered the route, then he heard a bang and thought he hit a large pot hole, that is until glass came down the periscope all over him, at that point he knew he hit a bridge.
No one told him or the guy allocating the buses there is a bridge on the actual busway that is to low for double deckers… there was a sign but it was covered in foliage.
Then another guy did the same the very next day