💤 ⏰ ☕️ 🚌 A day in the life of a bus driver - early shift 

I preferred lates when I was a bus driver! Earliest left me exhausted and lates are busy for the first few hours but then smooth sailing through the night!😎

Great job Michael,from a bus drivers perspective your bang on,seems we all have to grin and bare all that goes on in a day,however it sure keeps life interesting,peace and calm to all who spin the big wheel for a living.

I love the earlys better to get it out the way

Thanks for the video mate loved it. I always wanted to see something like this out of curiosity.

Thanks mate. Ive my assignment day this Tuesday and your vid has been a great help. Cheers.

I was on benefits for two months at the start of the year. It's 400 a month, and you don't get anything till the second month. I was literally eating one bowl of porridge every other day. Working now, but I'm guessing the lady who didn't want to pay was unemployed? The levels of poverty you can reach very quickly when you out of work can't be underestimated.

Great video! I really like the 261! Also Happy New Year!

Great video Michael. Hope you & your family have a safe & awesome New Year. 🎊🎉🎆😀🚌👍🏻

OMG.. Started watching the video, thought.. he's not in London.. then noticed your 1st bus.. the 261.. one of my local routes!

I’m on a 4 day week and always are on middle shifts usually. So I really enjoy it.

Interesting video! Respect for anyone who does a job where they have to deal with the public. I hope you're doing well.😊

I’m thinking of applying for a trainee bus driver job local to me. One thing that keeps putting me off is what you do if you need to use the toilet. Trying to be polite I don’t have a weak bladder but I do go fairly often. Sorry for the strange question and comment

I Really like your video, keep up the good work. Keep safe and look after yourself. I'm also a bus worker for London bus preservation trust in Cobham Hall

Love that you consider a 6yr old bus to be old.... Where i am, we're still running 52plate Tridents and Volvo saloons, our 'newer' buses are 12 plate Volvo B9's.

I really hate the beeping noise in those enviros like when your driving and it makes random noises like telling you its cold outside and just continues to beep

Thank you Michael 👍 Great to see your Video and your calm laid back approach to being a Bus Driver ❗I noticed you mentioned about the Princess Royal Hospital, so are you based at Bromley Garage on the Hastings Road, working for stagecoach ❗ I myself have just applied to be a Bus Driver with Stagecoach for that Depot, Now have been given a Interview For this Tuesday at canning Town , London, Have you any Tips for the Interview and what can I expect from it Much appreciated James.

As a former bus driver, lot of situations with customers being rude, abusive, offensive or anti social l find happen to be awkward and daunting. For example, when someone dont want to pay the journey buisness fare then you gotta politely, calmly on top of that ask this certain someone nicely that you cant come on bus and have to kindly step off. If that same someone argues, and take seat without paying then tell them l not going nowhere, until you get off. If that someone then dont get off, you have to tell them that they now banned from stagecoach, also you will call police if they dont corporate and that make more people on you bus impatient also angry because of time delay, however sadly apart of stagecoach rules and policy means drivers have got to remain in cabin and lialise with police in these non paying loonies tresspassing times of situations, and anti social profanity times causing other customers to be upset times of day. Only time driver can leave cabin is when assisting a disabled person in wheelchair to deploy ramp, or first aid, fire emergencies. Those all in all, are three situations that lawfully permits drivers to leave cabin and that having smoke off list, going to toilet which all should be done on you brake times etc. Passengers on-board are not just customers, their driver responsibility and having handsfree device installed with bluetooth headset on you ear provided by stagecoach or you own headset as is life saving and goes tremendously well if stagecoach did that for majority of drivers! Sad that we dont even get GPS sat navigations with live feed traffic on majority of buses, that to would work tremendously well when dealing with emergency calls, etc congestion and route closures!

99% of the buses at my local depot are enviro 400 and the heating works in the passenger compartments even on the top deck

Dang, my guy be driving me around without realising.

Pffft 12 plate ain’t old for a bus where I live. My school route is operated by First Kernow and is often run on 51 plate Dennis Trident/Plaxton President buses!

I live in Kent. Our buses are operated by Arriva. On their buses the heating seems to be on all the year round. I used to live on a route that went out into the middle of nowhere. When the bus got to my stop which was the station we could wait up to five mins to catch up the time.

Ohh wow great video

In Bristol it is £4.50for an adults day rider and £2.50 for a child’s day rider and they’re still trying to put the prices up !

I like earlies more than lates. Which garage are you at? I'm at Rugby in Warwickshire

😂😂 I like it

Very nice coffee machine

12 plate bus old!?... The old buses I used to drive were 20- 30 years old! Lol. You’re spoilt in London 😂

Nice production Michael 😀👍

I'm stagecoach on Teesside. I've a 5.12 start tomorrow. Respect brother!

Old bus m8 you must have upset the inspector BLAKEY😂😂😂😂😂😂

Thourghly enjoyed the video. Nice scottish accent. Hope your stil with the buses. Avid enthusiast.

1.50... in Leeds the fair is 2.50 for a child's day rider and 4.50 for adults day rider. This is with first Leeds a single from my stop to town is 3.40 without a blue mcard

What do you do when somebody doesn't want to pay and just walks on and sits down? That would get my blood boiling lol

sometimes I liked early mornings but not too early for me.

Happy New year to you buddy. I'm back on 7th Jan on 336 middle shifts all week. Started on 261 then route learned 336 on 20th but was then on hol from 22nd Dec. The joys of being a loan driver

For comparison, our fare in NYC is $2.75. And it is going up again soon. A monthly or weekly unlimited metro card takes the price down a bit if you use it often enough. Do drivers get paid a higher rate for working very early or very late hours? They do that here, and also as an incentive to take the midnight shift 🤪.

I’m a bus driver here in Cali. Don’t have to wear a tie so far lol.

Light aircraft buggy lol, true

Very nice video!! Are you type trained for the new E400 MMC Smart hybrids? And if so, what's your opinion on them?

How long ya been doing it fella

£1.50 single fare v Hopper Fare, so pleased that I have the 60+ Oyster Card, it’s like a Freedom Pass, £20 from TfL when I reached 60.

lol i was born at princess royal - its right by my dads house as well

That’s not fair we pay £4.00 for our busses

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I love to drive the optare solos to be honest

I’m a bud driver in Dublin…. Fare evasion is on an epidemic scale

Enviro 400's heating is always breaking down. Its basically junk.

In Somerset it’s £1.80 CHILD ticket for under 3 miles!!! £3.50 adult

Which depot u based out off

Great video mate

I think this would be better called “THE LIFE OF A BUS DRIVER(Morning/Early Shift)”

ye it is £1.70 for a single and £3.50-£5.50 for a day rider in Arriva North West

I don't mind working. Nights or days. In whatever your doing .

I share your pain. Early shifts all week for me at stagecoach. Starting 0330. Great.

£1.50 no matter how long the journey is? Damn it’s like £5 here

£2.5 for a day rider in Yorkshire with a pass. £5 for an adult ticket

I feel this is bery unique filming on busses not like the norm of food eating channels? i can see you doing good from youtube.👍

Where I live the return fare for a destination only 2 miles away is £4-70,would not mind paying £1-50.

It’s £ 3.90 for a single to Chesterfield

do you drive the 320?

Are you still bus driving?

£1.50 so cheap! Where I live it’s £7.40 per day return ticket it’s maybe a 12/14 minute journey

I don’t see how Londoners can complain about £1.50. I’m always happy to pay the £1.50 considering I pay £2.90 to go to my town for a single and £4.20 to get back. It’s ridiculous and I don’t think some Londoners realise how fortunate they are

Enviro 400’s are good, any bus is better than a Wrongbus streetshite

Is London the only place that Stagecoach have E40D's? All other depots seem to have Scanias or the 1st generation E400..

I’ve got an interview with stagecoach trainee role what is the interview process like?

fair play to you mate. Great way to earn a decent living. great insightful video and i dont have any interest in buses!! just stumbled across it, great vid!

I thought you just driven Singal decker that’s a double decker

Where I am there only single deckers

£2.70 for an Adult Single Trip where i'm from up North, I'm glad i have a car lol

Try being a truck driver. Working over 70 hrs a week. Sleeping in a tin can, shit pay . But at least my load doesn't talk back to me or spit at me.

Enviro 400 are rubbish. We got the 68 plate mmc beautiful bus slow but comfortable

How much do you get payed being a bus driver

£5.60 for Arriva North East haha

Why are you driving a Double Decker if your your single decker Michael?? 😂😂😂

It would be a good job if it had no passengers even boarding cats would be more positive 😅

I hate you butler😂😂😂😂😂

Hi

I love stagecoach we go on them every other weekend Stagecoach is the best

Please 🙏🥺 be good for all

Every one in London makes me laugh when they don’t won’t to pay £1.50 or moan they have to wait for more then 5 minutes for bus if the come 40 minutes out of London to Guildford were most fares are at least £1:50 for just one fare stage and the cap at 3:50 for a ticket like that you are looking at £9 for a day and most routes that go out of town are only every hour to 90 minutes

Say if i get 0 GCSES lol can i still become a bus driver

Stagecoach bus

Needles to say I don’t give a bollox

You dont want it too bust but if people did not use the bus did not need it you have no job

Older the bus the better the bus nicer to drive better than the streetshites...

Bus drivers need a bum lift

U not on RU-vid anymore

Chief Bus Wanker ‘only joking lol’

Well there’s 11 mins of my life wasted