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Solo 20912 is on the 142A

Looked like 20868 was on the 142 as well. From bus times it looks like 1 streetlite and 1 e200 got replaced 

Rubbish? As usual no thought goes into your response at all. Just vitriol.

Said 'trunk road' route will see you interacting with probably 400-500 passengers on an average shift. You are busy, pretty much non-stop, the shift time (seems to) go far quicker than when you are driving routes seeing maybe 15-20 passengers an hour. It's common sense that time drags when you're not busy!

Worcester is no comparison to the West Mids obviously but having worked at other garages (like I do now!), including Sheffield, over a long period, what I am saying is true.

Driving round the posh suburbs of Solihull with few passengers on may be a great life achievement for you and full of personal fulfilment but to me it's bloody boring. I've done plenty of shifts in my driving time on tendered routes, where seeing hardly any passengers makes it so tedious.

Fine if that appeals to you but I can't think of anything more boring than doing that for another 20 years (or until your company loses the contract at the next round of tenders and you end up back at Diamond driving these same routes!)

How much more stressful is it though? You end up coming off late to break you get abusive customers health and safety becomes a hazard. So you're telling me that you'd rather drive the 11A/11C (notorious for late running, antisocial behaviour) than a tendered diamond route such as the 142/142A. I've noticed one of PN best and most politest drivers is now driving the 142/142A. Interesting maybe he had enough of the rude passengers in Birmingham

Even if diamond wages were slightly lower than nx wages I'd rather work for diamond given the type of customer diamond carries compared to nx and the routes it operates too. I'm sure most diamond drivers would agree with this.

A nice mellor working around Wednesbury or a horrible Dudley road corridor with non stop traffic and abusive passengers 🤔

An exception to the rule. Hardly the going rate in general for shelf stackers.

I agree. You can't quote £12 an hour and say that's the going rate across the board. Personally think this 16% pay rise is ludicrous.

So how did the just win the new 144 then?

And how did you lose basically the entire of the midlands tenders?? 

The winning of the 144 doesn't cover the losses of the 17,22,28 and the rest of them 

Nx writing off any chance of winning tenders then. Dangerous waters given the current situation 

I imagine arriva have been raking it on the Sutton corridor. Good on them I say 

16.2% rise is insane. Look forward to seeing fares increase and the number of fare dodgers rise rapidly 

The vehicle on the 17H has a paper 17H been displayed as the blinds are just showing diamond 

Not sure what the issue was this morning but the 06:35 ex Hayley green, 06:44 and 06:58 failed to operate @Simon Dunn 

One of the deckers in tividale (yellow bus)

Could anyone tell me which trips if any from Moir St to Solihull are loco hauled?

Chiltern track on RTT now 

The taxi companies were pissed off after they postponed the previous strike as they had a lot of bookings which were no longer needed 

Is there an issue with the X51? 1m12 hasnt turmed up, nothing cannock bound showing on bustimes apart from 1 red e400 headed for cannock at perry barr. Would there setiously be a 90 min plus gap?

There was a omnilink being hitched up in Birmingham about 10:30 having been on the 997

32260 is on the 002 in white