not just Eastern Europian drivers lost road and don t know where need to go.
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That’s a seriously bad day. At least my load doesn’t offer a solution. If it did 28t would be left on the side while i sorted my ■■■■ out. Have to feel for the guy. When it goes wrong it really goes wrong.
An old bus drivers trick, find the totty who knows the route, tell her the ride is free (steady Dipperdave 
) and let her show you the way, eyes open for disaster but you might get her number
he was seriously lost…Bradford to Heathrow? he’s ended up in Portsmouth in that photo
carryfast-yeti:
he was seriously lost…Bradford to Heathrow? he’s ended up in Portsmouth in that photo
it does say file picture 
nick2008:
carryfast-yeti:
he was seriously lost…Bradford to Heathrow? he’s ended up in Portsmouth in that photoit does say file picture
ssshh! 
, have a read of some of the readers comments, some interesting reading there.
you’d have thought they’d have a bit of plan
as to where the drops where a sort of route card
This brings up two things, one I cant blame him for quitting, NatEx work is rubbish and 2 this is no surprise really, a crap job attracts crap drivers! My time on National Express involved working with some of the worst drivers I’ve ever encountered. Including one who had panic attacks if given a run that involved motorways.
Just to reassure anyone travelling by train over the xmas period when it may happen that there is a replacement bus service.
I do this railway replacement work in London and the South East. No matter what time of day or night an emergency may arise, there is ALWAYS a printed route with full directions and warnings, and a copy from a large scale map with that route clearly marked between each station, handed to every driver at the company I attend. The first question the train operating company asks is normally: ‘how quickly can you have (say) half a dozen buses on scene?’ The verified answer is why they get the work.
cav551:
Just to reassure anyone travelling by train over the xmas period when it may happen that there is a replacement bus service.I do this railway replacement work in London and the South East. No matter what time of day or night an emergency may arise, there is ALWAYS a printed route with full directions and warnings, and a copy from a large scale map with that route clearly marked between each station, handed to every driver at the company I attend. The first question the train operating company asks is normally: ‘how quickly can you have (say) half a dozen buses on scene?’ The verified answer is why they get the work.
That is how you are supposed to do it, not leaving poor Appaz out to dry like National Express did.
When I do rail replacement work its usually a matter of get to the station as quickly as possible and they will tell you what to do.I have never been given a map or any thing else useful.
alamcculloch:
When I do rail replacement work its usually a matter of get to the station as quickly as possible and they will tell you what to do.I have never been given a map or any thing else useful.
Same here when I used to drive coaches. Often you wouldn’t know where you were going to you got there, and no maps! And this was in the days before sarnavs so it could be rather stressful to say the least
love the comment by the ex coach driver who says the customer is allways right,i don’t think so, I would say its give and take when it comes to customers,the driver would apparently not communicate with passengers,has the ex coach driver ever thought they might have been giving him hassel,its possible,
do national express use import agency drivers? …how could you not find heathrow…though to be fair,if hes not got a clue,and has been given 11 drops/pickups in railway/bus stations etc in different cities without some form of a clue,then its nobody to blame but nat/ex. at least if your lost and delivering meat in a truck,then its mostly dead before you lift it.so whos the worst…the company for sending him,or the driver for going in the 1st place,when he hasn’t got a Scooby doo where to go.?
dieseldog999:
do national express use import agency drivers?
I don’t know, but most NX coaches are actually owned by firms such as Go-Ahead and a million and one smaller coach operators, who run them under almost a franchise-arrangement, so the driver’s origins will be down to wherever said coach firm has recruited him from.
I spoke to one bloke who had some seven-year old coaches off National Express work for sale earlier in the year which all had between 2 and 2.5 million km on them… 
Megabus coaches apparently do even more.
Olog Hai:
dieseldog999:
do national express use import agency drivers?I don’t know, but most NX coaches are actually owned by firms such as Go-Ahead and a million and one smaller coach operators, who run them under almost a franchise-arrangement, so the driver’s origins will be down to wherever said coach firm has recruited him from.
I spoke to one bloke who had some seven-year old coaches off National Express work for sale earlier in the year which all had between 2 and 2.5 million km on them…
your meant to know from previous posts by others here that the agency/import driver it was meant to be a joke…
switchlogic:
My time on National Express involved working with some of the worst drivers I’ve ever encountered. Including one who had panic attacks if given a run that involved motorways.
Truth is haulage has the same problem, The amount off drivers I’ve heard refusing London work beggars belief.
I was once asked if I could do a one hit Wandsworth (from Norfolk), instead off the home counties milk round multi drop that I had loaded(approx 8 drops), My attitude is whatever, as long as the money goes in the bank(I drive, they plan). The Driver who’d refused the London job because He didn’t do London, then refused the multi dropper, because he wanted straight forward work 
, and promptly got asked to clear his lorry. I did the Wandsworth, and 1 off our fitters ran the multidrop out to Me, did a change over at Thetford and I cleared all but one off the 8 drops that day