How it all was around 18 years ago. Filmed on a Sony hi8 camcorder, so quality not up to todays standards, might be better viewed on a small screen such as a phone or tablet.
@@BristolRE Yes recently they shuffled around the VWs from other garages and Cricklewood and PB mostly Volvo. They’d been complaining about standardising for a while as when they move drivers around they have to retrain them
A year before I was born. Plaxton presidents have been phased out of London just before Covid. Don't see why they couldn't get fully refurbished, as long as London still has diesels.
@@BristolRE I was also wondering, when a single bus route passes from a big company to a much smaller one, like 298 or 383, did drivers tupe across, get redeployed onto another route or become redundant?
@@mohibj It depends on the company who are losing the route. Some give you the choice to tupe or stay, but the company who has won the route cannot refuse to take those that want to tupe. When Arriva lost the 184 they forced all drivers to tupe, they would not let any stay.
@@mohibj Unlikely you'd get a pay out, plenty of jobs at other garages. There was no need to tupe the 184 drivers, like all bus companies Arriva are very short of drivers, the feeling is they wanted to get rid of drivers on higher pay grades so they could recruit new drivers on a much lower pay rate
It's never been TfL, was originally London Transport 'back in the day' but has been a mix of Herts County Council tendering and Metroline commercial operation since the late 80s, though it was London Buses / London Northern / MTL before Metroline.
