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Thank you a lot @Stu and @Jon for your continued hard work.

@Jon no problem mate thanks for your help

@Jon
Have a look at this avatar issue when you get half a chance

Dundee haven't had enough spare buses to allow for buses to go for paint.

The WM painstshop only has capacity for 17 buses at a time.....

>only
Implying its a small unit, Winston! Haha

An honour!

Enjoy your 7 yellow blocks next to your name!

Thank you to @Stuharris 6360 for that link

Thank you @Jon and @Stu

@Stu , I'll appoint your position shortly. If @Stu needs more help then he can ask @Jon

Thank you

LS the fine direct to the driver there use to be a over zealous supervisor at bearwood interchange he approached me asking where's your high viz I,m stood behind a bus shelter near the cafe, he wrote a ticket out and tried to give it to me I refused to accept he got arsey I didn't give a shit and deliberately walked across the road in the interchange to take up relief , he approached the cab window and dropped it in , I picked it up and threw back at him, that ticket then ended up at west brom management who had a word with me. I never paid it . It's not worth the paper it's written on.
LS I,m not making this up I know it's hard to believe.

I'd tell him to piss off. Cheeky f'kers.

  ...    Not happy with the 71 service (Ex Solihull).... today (Fri 4/3/)  I, and 5 other people waited 44 minutes on Tangmere drive in the COLD/rain  @15.51pm.. as the scheduled 15.58pm was a no-show and the 16.18pm turned up at 16.35pm... (2241)   thanks a lot guys >:( >:( >:(

not the drivers fault.
also they don't control the weather

It all depends on the bus station supervisor. The fines are more than £5 depends what the driver has done. Anyone who uses a flash on the bus station should be banned but it never seems to happen.

Direct to the driver? Or the company?

@MW , I'm sorry to hear you've lost your job though. Did you appeal?

How tall are you? It is obvious that people of different height will see the mirror differently.

Honestly they need to reinstate the metrobus standard mirrors or whatever they're called. And not those stupid big arms. Accident waiting to happen.

All in all a stupid reason for dismissal.

When I was at Diamond (2 days and they didn't pay me lol), the drivers were wishing for Stagecoach to take over. Something like £11 an hour I think it was, with less hours is their rate.

Where are you working now and is it true about the nature of your dismissal?

The bottom line is we deserve a decent pay rise, not a poultry pay rise year after year.
There are plenty of jobs that pay the same, but don't have the responsibility of driving hundreds of people around every day safely, that don't force you to inhale cigarettes or drugs, deal with drunks, irate passengers.

Oh, I'm not disagreeing there; I guess I meant what bus company would pay the same?

Diamond is some shitty rate for 45+ hours a week, Johnsons is 50hrs, and other operators are the usual shit minimum wage and exploitation. That isn't to say other, bigger companies don't exploit workers...

Just some food for thoughts

yes I remember the thread now, surely if this muppet using a very distracting flash on centro property they are responsible for what goes on, they quick enough to hand out £ 5 fines to drivers for not parking the bus properly or for not wearing your high viz. honestly it's bullshit every where

Seriously? £5 fines?

when I started it was £4.95 an hour I think back then which wasn't to bad when you compare the bills of today. We were told you will never see top rate, due to severe shortage of drivers then management backed down eventually and offered market rate drivers top rate through a 5 year rate of progression, quite a few  left because of it because couldn't stomach another 5 years, it meant at the time some drivers would have done 13 years service on market rate.  Drivers who are coming into the job today seem to forget we,ve put years in to get top rate. From personal point of view I never agree to any pay deal because we all know they can pay more, for me now personally top rate doesn't mean shit I just want to do something where I  can be treated as a person, I don't what it is as soon as get in that cab you become dehumanised some how.

What job would pay the same though without being forced to do 50hours a week?

Do something really bad?! Look at @MW sacked because of not being able to see out of his wing mirror so he mentioned it to the inspector!!

What? That has surely got to be bullshit??????!