Nottingham City Transport: Day in the Life of our Driver of the Year 

@Dragon Jones may I ask which type of locomotive you drive?

BritishRail60062 NCT drivers could learn a lot from other companies, caught their buses a few times. They either haven't spoken to me, or said the very bare minimum with no emotion whatsoever. However, they're not as bad as Arriva, mind.

To be honest @Adam Alldridge. I don't expect the bus drivers to speak to me when I board as I am not paying for that service. I am just paying to get from A to B and many times when I said thank you or bye. I rarely get an answer and often am ignored. But to be honest, they are paid to drive buses, not to speak to the public :).

BritishRail60062 They are paid to drive buses, yes, but a little customer interaction goes a long way, that customer may not talk to many people and if a bus driver is friendly and asks how they are etc, even takes 10 seconds to make sure the customer is having a great day, it goes a long way.

@Adam Alldridge. Bus drivers in my area were a lot nicer about 10 years ago but since around 2008. The drivers in my area are just so shitty that I have just given up even bothering to speak to them at all. They just shove the F.O.B window up and don't even speak when you board or alight the buses. I have given up trying to nice towards obnoxious hostile arseholes like that which cannot be bothered to respond a polite customer. We are not all garbage and customer service should be mandatory when dealing with the public. I use an electronic pass, so I just look at the signal when I check in and wait for a moment for it to say "okay" or show the green light and then take my seat and I just totally blank the driver as they are not even there when I leave the bus. I don't like being like that as I am a friendly person on the whole. But its a matter of adapting to modern times which is a sad fact of life mate. However when I use TrentBarton, I get an amazing service.

So glad you said 'most', we're not all like that. ''Civility costs nothing'' as my old mum used to say, it applies to drivers AND passengers alike i would have thought! They seem to have a nicer class of passenger in Nottingham compared to the North of Scotland where i am.

Hetzelfde overal...geen 9-17.00 job...vandaag nog even vechtpartij op die bus...(5 passagiers)...weekendwerk...laat werk....echt on-sociale uren...niet de beste job wanneer men nog jonge kinderen heeft. Bus bestuurder van Leicester (17 Jaar nu Al)

There gone to Westnotts and Lilac line 24/25 are Enviro400City?

what the fuck? hahaha

Stevie Wonder That's for truck drivers and that would put me off.

TIMOTHY CHESWORTH good luck

nasim rose thank you :) my first day of actual driving a bus :)

If you go on to the coach side be sure to keep your work tickets as they are your experience portfolio.

Rollo Larson it’s the way buses are designed in the U.K. , and they handle cash so it’s not just about violence protection it’s to make life harder for armed robbers and thieves too , and break times are set by law for whichever hours they work , maybe America will follow suit with these in the future

3 shift cycle, early late middle or can go on a all late rota

Sam Armstrong Scania Omnidekka

chav spotter

Never get sick of it, it makes for a nicer day if there's interaction between the driver and passengers. But then there's what i call ''drunk bus'', on late shift, THAT can be quite amusing too!!

I think a bus driver must be quite a nice job. It might be a bit repetitive at times, but at least you are always on the move and meeting people from all walks of life. I certainly don't get that from my job.

How can you get sick of manners? Passengers like me say thank you for getting me safely and or quickly to my destination. It's manners to say thank you

Then what route?

Farhan Qurban. That is very easy to answer

No they have to find the bus given to you

No you get whatever skip on wheels given to you. You can clean the drivers cab yourself if you want to...unpaid of course

No however he does have a bus named after him in the fleet :-) all the drivers of the year do. Our 2019 driver of the year has a Gas Bus named after him :-)

Yes?

@@busestransporta-z781 just on a rota

@@mrhaggit what do you mean?

@@busestransporta-z781 each depot has certain routes they run or at least at stagecoach they do and Arriva, the controller picks the routes and shift patterns

@@mrhaggit ok

Yhhhtt

No more vids?

Well, sadly in UK you need to be like that. I drive in London. Well it s a jungle. You need to be disconected from the pessengers. How many times the drivers get attacked or spat, even with a plastic "cage"

You work in arriva and ur 10 yr old?

What route?

@Warren Chamberlain huh?

Skyblue line 45/46/47?

Waving to other bud drivers passing him

Andrew Bills That is actually cheap. Arriva charges £5.80 for a local ticket by me. Trent barton is £6 or £9 if I travel before 9am.

Use your bike and stop complaining then.

the four pound ticket is a whole day on all busses. so as soon as you have used two bus rides, ticket paid for.

It gets you there dry in the rain though

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Rahan omsi 2 content and more Ain't you a genius.

Dont critisize him

Marc Veldman He isn’t a genius because it’s actually spelt Scania OmniDekka.