Becoming a bus driver?

BigBoy said:
The job is what you make it, if your a gloomy grumpy person then you will get a hard time from the punters. If your a positive person with good people skills the job is easy!
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This.

As a student, I have to use them, or I'd not have much money left to help with my, erm, 'educational needs'. (Read: Parties and/or Spending spree). Most bus drivers are fine and do a good job, it makes the service good to use. But when you get a complete ****, its the opposite.
 
BigBoy said:
As generalisations go that's a fantastic one.

Got to love all the bus driver hate around here! :)
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Unfortunately for you, the only time you are likely to form an opinion of a bus driver is when something is less than ideal.

HOWEVER! One kind bus driver in Bristol was an absolute hero at explaining the best bus routes etc and then let me on when I was 20p short. I made a point of telling him he was a hero.

That's not to say there aren't total douchebags. I was once leaving on an airport bus and the driver pretty much drove off when a guy couldn't find his ticket. He just started shouting at the poor bloke that obviously couldn't speak good English and pretty much manhandled him off the bus. Thankfully he stopped the bus when everyone else offered to pay for his ticket. Obviously, the guy then found his ticket straight away.
 
Freefaller said:
Where are you based? In London they can be well paid £24k+, and are always looking for new drivers (according to the adverts on them - but they're often out of date). Driving a bus in London or any other city would be hell in my opinion. However, good luck with it.
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What does 24k a year in London get you?

Not much i'm guessing!
 
dirtychinchilla said:
I vomited on the bus recently and have been wondering, does the bus driver care?

I was too embarrassed to tell him, btw, and ran off the bus! Not my finest hour.
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No we don't clean them ourselves we have a hazmat team clean them (I'm not joking) as biological waste is considered dangerous!
 
BigBoy said:
As generalisations go that's a fantastic one.

Got to love all the bus driver hate around here! :)
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Sounds like you're a great one, but I have to say that when I used them (daily), they lived up to the stereotype. One even told me the wrong information about where he was going and I ended up at the bleeding depot and missing my connection home on Christmas Eve.
 
I was a bus driver back in the early nineties. It's changed a bit now though. Social life was always good at my garage (although we're going back to London Transport days before privatisation) but the money was crap back then.
 
I hate bus drivers, bought a brand new car and on day one!!!!! day one!!!! i was sat at a red light when the **** parked right up my bumper, he must have slipped the clutch or something and crushed my back end

Luckily the bus company sent me a rather nice cheque in the post to sort it all out

so OP.....word of advice, leave plenty of room in front lol
 
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BigBoy said:
Got to love all the bus driver hate around here! :)
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It's a shame but for me, it's almost daily that I encounter bad bus drivers. Of course they aren't the only bad drivers on the road, but they are the ones carrying up to 80 members of the public in their vehicle.

I currently get 2 buses each day (from 2 different London bus garages) to and from work, and it's almost every day that I see bus drivers acting in a negative way, be it bad driving, rudeness or a general bad attitude towards their job. I know driving in London isn't fun, but they have to deal with it or stop driving buses. It may not be true, but it seems like many years ago people were bus drivers because they wanted to be. Today, it seems like most do it just to have a job, and they take no pride or care in the work. Having said that, I've no doubt that there are good drivers out there, it's just that I haven't encountered very many at all.
 
No way would I be a bus driver around my way with the reasonability of looking after 50+ people with the money they pay.

Id prefer to be a taxi driver..more money and tips :)
 
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