channel5.com/shows/on-the-yorkshire-buses
Anybody catch this on Friday? …zzzzzzzzz
kemaro:
No access outside UKAnybody catch this on Friday? …zzzzzzzzz
Yes - = quite good IMO
It reminds me why I don’t want to drive buses anymore. I did think the bus failing to start was funny. They didn’t show the reason why but I was sat there repeating “battery isolator switch”
I’d rather it be a bit of a snooze fest as opposed to a over dramatised channel 5 show about trucks and trailers (you all know the one I mean)
I though that it was OK and yesterday was speaking to a bus driving pal of mine who said that it is EXACTLY like that! Sending drivers out on unknown routes is very common apparently, he thinks that it is stupid and one of the reasons why drivers hit low bridges with ‘deckers’ and unless he knows the route in advance will not entertain it. I know we encounter different journeys daily but we don’t have a timetable to keep to nor a load of passengers. He also said that failing to supply adequate drivers to cover ‘sickies’ etc is illegal technically as they are contracted by law to service those routes. Truck driver didn’t cover himself with glory either! 
Pete.
moomooland:
There is only one ‘On the Buses’ as far as i am concerned.
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Get that bus out Butler!
Classic tele got the full box set. The best bit is on Holiday on the buses when Olive and Aurther are on their way to the holiday camp on the bike and side car and they end up in the river when Stan forces them off the road
Aurther just gives Olive a bollocking shouting at her to get all the casses out of the water 
windrush:
He also said that failing to supply adequate drivers to cover ‘sickies’ etc is illegal technically as they are contracted by law to service those routes.
That’s a half truth. The bus companies must submit a timetable to the traffic comissioner in order to run a route as stage carriage work allowing them to pick up fare paying passengers at the side of the road. They also have to register the frequency of the service. Quite often the hourly services will be registered as such but the 10 minute frequency ones will be registered as 1/2 hourly. This gives them the option to cut 2 buses from that route without facing a penalty.
And yes, they are checked up on.
m1cks:
windrush:
He also said that failing to supply adequate drivers to cover ‘sickies’ etc is illegal technically as they are contracted by law to service those routes.That’s a half truth. The bus companies must submit a timetable to the traffic comissioner in order to run a route as stage carriage work allowing them to pick up fare paying passengers at the side of the road. They also have to register the frequency of the service. Quite often the hourly services will be registered as such but the 10 minute frequency ones will be registered as 1/2 hourly. This gives them the option to cut 2 buses from that route without facing a penalty.
And yes, they are checked up on.
That makes more sense, thanks for the explanation.
Pete.
moomooland:
There is only one ‘On the Buses’ as far as i am concerned.
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Get that bus out Butler!
Little bit of trivia here, when you saw Reg Varney driving that bus (a Bristol Lodekka ), it was actually him driving it, he took his HGV Class 3 driving test before production started and the bus was re-registered as an HGV.