The Secret Life of a Bus Garage (Go-Ahead Stockwell) 

It is. I love driving buses each and everyday. The passengers few and far between can be a nuisance but it's rather easy and peacefully as long as you transport to/from the location quick & safely as possible.

Or doesn't, because you don't know their circumstances.

Andy O people who look down on us absolutely have no clue about our jobs, us, nothing. Funny how people think they know everything. When they know minuscule amounts. It's how they go through life. In my garage, there are guys and gals who bring home 75-80 grand a year with not much overtime.

Decent money??? Having a laugh. YES if you are prepared to to do untold amounts of overtime potentially putting lives at risk from related exhaustion. Lovely job, but the beleaguered drivers are trapped in an inflated overtime lifestyle! Not worth the risk!

The pay wasnt good before I think, because drivers went on strike, same with tubes but its changed now. Aside from that, its the idiot passengers (mostly children), weekend work and overtime kills.

😂😂😂 that one got me too

Thank you for sharing your wonderful life experiences .

❤

I felt bad

so what they meant to do raise a flag for her, we die & our children, have some memories . . . ttfn . . .

I dont agree. The documentary had to go on, but people certainly remembers her still. I think you made a harsh judgment. People loved her clearly

FilK79 Exactly, she lives on in the hearts of those who loved her at home, at the depot, and now she lives on in our hearts ❤️👍too, an amazing lady indeed!

We had a caretaker die at our place, me and the others were talking about it. The other workers will be sad for a few weeks, a new guy will be hired, and it will be as if you never existed before. such is the tale of support staff.

I work for a bus company in Yorkshire, its the same here, we have Hungarians, 2 from Zimbabwe, pakistani, Polish, frenchman, St Lucia, and Canadian, everyone gets on and the banter between drivers is incredible, Bus driving is great, if you have the right attitude

It's very much like this up and down the UK and in most workplaces. We are a very diverse country.

I've worked over forty years in the bus industry, and despite, (or sometimes because of), all the wind-ups, (and god knows there are so many!), it's about the friendliest and most accepting place I could imagine to work... I'd recommend anyone to give it a try...in any capacity... I took on the job in 1975 as something that'd perhaps tide me over for a couple of years, and all this time later I'm still here... Toughest part about it from a driver's point of view is probably getting used to the shift nature of the job...and from the back-office point of view, it's the pressure of the deadlines...but there's something almost addictive, (in a good way), about the workplace too.

The simple answer, we, regardless of race, creed or colour are London Bus Drivers- The best in the world-

No matter the colour creed or religion, we're Londoners mate!

Wong Edan Juan xd

Lol

Wong Edan Juan there all red xD

Wong Edan Juan XD

stfu

TheEnviro400 is it true she died?!?

Michael rushoki No they are going to fake it. Obviously they died. Honestly?

Michael rushoki what do you think?

@@rushokim who would lie about someone dying obviously

Sorry to hear . May her soul rest in peace.

That was me 19 years ago... doing route 133 and 11 on Saturdays! Now I’m a chartered accountant, the free travel card and wages helped me get through uni

London, especially south London, is INSANELY diverse. People from literally ANYWHERE you can imagine on Earth.

Foreign individuals 🙄

‘Foreign individuals’? Care to elaborate on that?

people not of this land@@TheMusicalElitist

​@@AGGD767i m from east asia, have never been to the UK let alone the culture, what's the problem with the term foreign individual? Should just say foreigner instead or what???

That’s how it is on the buses. And why it’s an awful job. Treated like crap by the public, other road users, and your own management! All for crap pay

​@@danielgould9107I agree with you. When I started bus driving in 1990 for a small ex NBC company, the job was really good. In later years after the company was bought by that Scottish woman, the job went massively downhill. We were expected to work 10 minutes for no pay every day, everything bad is the drivers fault, there is never enough time to do the journey which results in buses always being late, that leads to unhappy passengers, which in turn can lead to a miserable day at work for the driver. Occasionally though, a passenger will do something that makes your day, rare but it does happen.

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FARAN AHMED FARAN Here comes a drooling creep.

FARAN AHMED FARAN get lost creep

I work as a bus driver, its a brilliant job and the money is decent too

What's you favourite garage? Speedgarage, UK garage, deep garage?

Hu! You young whipper snappers! Back in''t day when I bus wasn't following every move. Them were the days! :-)

z00h speedgarage is actually pretty nice. I'm more into hardhouse myself.

problem with evry driving job involving picking up passengers is the passengers and other road users. u get a lot of very nasty passengers who cause a lot of trouble. I was a taxi driver. taking home £3k to £4k a week. had passengers threaten me cause i didnt have the change they wanted. IE ran out of £5 notes so gave him £1 coins instead. he pulled a knife demanding i gave him a £5 note. Others refusing to pay claiming i took the long way round ewhen i tok th shortest route possible. Wasnt my fault though as the road i normaly took was closed to be resurfaced so had no choice taking the route i took. Even showed her the barriers when i got back onto the right road that were blocking the road. had couples start having sex in the back seat lol. had women offer me sex instead of the fare. Guys jump out of the taxi while its still moving and run away without paying. had women acuse me of rape if i didnt give them a free ride. 1 of them ended up in prison as i had CCTV with sound in my car. Then their is the drunks throwing up in the car which puts u off the road for a few hrs while u clean it up and get rid of the smell. Then u have the police looking for any excuse to give u a fine. Had 1 cop one night pull me over demanding i pay him £50 for not wearing a seat belt. Sorry but taxi drivers r not allowed to wear seat belts on safety grounds as they can be used by passengers behind the driver to pull u back in the seat and pin u there while they rob u. Then he acused me of kurb crawling and added another £50 fine i refuse to pay as he wanted in cash there and then. Then he said ok £150 now or ill call a tow truck and tow ur car away and get it crushed. another taxi driver got a £200 fine for being parked on a double yellow line when he was stopped at a red light. It was always the same with the police they refused to give u a ticket or a recipt is was always cash then and there. Just about avery taxi driver in the erea i worked had it done to them as well. I reported the ones that stopped me to the police complaints comision who threatend me that if i didnt drop the charges they will find any excuse they can to sent me to prison. Apart from that it s great job ur self employed so ur own boss work the hrs u want work as many hrs as u want. Meet some very nice ppl. get to see a lot of the counrty if u got jobs like me I had a lot of long distance jobs. Had contracts with airlines to pick up flight crews and take them to other airports if their plane got diverted for some reason. Contracts with train companies to take drivers home if they ended thier shift too far away from home and had to get back for their next shift. So many a time i drove 200 to 300 miles doing those jobs. 1 job took me 3 days to do. south coast UK upto aberdeen wait and bring them back. had 1 old lady who was scared of flying wanting me to take her to Rumania from the UK. Turned that job down as my car would never had made it. Crap mercedes vito traveliner. Bloody thing kept breaking down Drive shafts broke every 60k miles. ended up going to the scrap yard when it was 5 years old with 1 million miles on the clock. Just was not cost effective to keep repairing it. Gearbox went twice. heater matrix went 4 times. both drives shafts had to be replaced every couple of months they r £500 each plus fitting. didnt like going up hills. was doing 70 mph at the bottom of the hill down to 20mph by the time i got to the top. and they were not steep hills wouldnt even get up steep hill. Got stuck going up the hill between brighton and gatwick and had to get a truck that was behind me to push me up lol.

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Chadwicked B what

Well that's partly true, Some drivers stay on one route, But when a new driver starts, Your a spare driver, so if a garage as 6 routes then they expected to learn them sp they can use you on any route that needs covering, After 2 years then you can go on a route you want and then get a rota When I was at stagecoach in East London, I had to learn 4 routes the moment I passed my PCV and that garage has got 12 routes. I moved to a different garage after 3 months and that only 4 in total and had to learn 3 of them. But after 2 years drivers generally stay on one route but because they know more, they can do over time to.

Did you work for Solent blue line? Or city bus

@@SAFC_Ted Solent Blue Line

@@oilburner225 good choice 🚎

Did you know it’s bluestar now?

D.L.G Dont worry. The little one will learn.

D.L.G it's teenagers attitude

D.L.G my dad was a bus driver for 10 years, then a charter driver and then became a manager. I thought it was cool and then became a charter driver myself. I myself make good money being a charter driver.

Bus driver salary is not the worst...

i feel like she just didnt find the right words to put it... she basically wanted to say that there is nothing wrong with being a bus driver but she wants to strive for something bigger. i can totally understand that and think thats a good thing. her mother even agreed basically when she said that she wants her to "academically go further". if i got that wrong and she was actually ashamed and ungreatful i totally agree with you

A walking Tampon they are never remembered like David said in psalms we blow away like dust before the wind and are place remembers us no more.

MKKKK mmm

@gerard burton David is a insecure little boy man who is intimidated by strong women. 😂😂

RIP

Why would you want to rip him though 🙌🙌😷😷🏃🏃🏃🏃😂😂😂🙋🌙

Nina likes driving modern buses, but would not find driving an ancient RT Regent much fun.

:-(

what happened?

Watch it and you'll find out!

ok thx bro.

in what way?

ikr, people making real contribution to their passion rather than pull race cards or arguing religious nonsense.

The unknown heroes.... I'd rather spend time with these lads doing a job a like rather then argue about nonsense.

MegaTaurus777 wy

MegaTaurus777 iiii

MegaTaurus777 @@shed tv

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Me too! But God blessed me with a lovely big 10 incher. God blesses us all in different ways. My way? The ovary burster 😉💪

I refuse to be brainwashed by the left. I miss 1960s London when the buses and the people were locally made. I would pick 1960s London every single time.

@@jamesfrench7299 Didn't ask + L + bozo + ratio + nobody cares.

@@jamesfrench7299 This isn’t brainwashing James, it is called Human experience, other people have always existed and will continue to exist, and it’s good to be aware of the next person. UKs fault for interfering with other people from early, selling dreams to people in Africa then moving them to Islands, then selling more dreams to India and other parts of the world…. Brainwashing isn’t for UK residents its for people of non-Anglo origin

​@@jamesfrench7299would be very interesting to know what party you vote for,let me guess.

@@desthomas3020 and will continue.

CrilleMega I feel u bud

CrilleMega I

Same

Hahhahahahahahhahahah

CrilleMega well don't do that in public you'll get arrested.

Henry Thomas what part of the states do you live in?

nolimit7

nolimit7 was at stockwell other day attempting to fix Aircon on the old pvls

Also great jerk chicken in canteen

Paul Janovsky they mentioned tue cleaners

nolimit7. Yeah getting oil all over you is a thankless job.

i know nina was a bit old for the average driver, but think about it this way, if she’s had eye and medical test then she is very safe to be on the road 👍🏻

R.I.P Nina ❤

I used to drive for NJ Transit (I am now a train conductor with them) and yes, it was almost like watching my own garage lol! Halfway around the world, people and situations are essentially the same.

Scumy management lol 😂

@@ukbusandtrains4212 Uhh The news🤦

Good for you

@@mandemt1076 mandem on the block ya get me ching man down ill chef ya down jheeez

Think you'll find Driving a bus anywhere in the UK is the same as in London, there are 56 million people who don't live in London

i change from buses to lorries, TBH if i could earn driving buses what i earn driving lorries i would go back to it tomorrow. although you have to have high tolerance to arseholes..And i would only go back to Stockwell

They need to replace the storage lockers there if they truly respect there drivers!

+Leonard Carr Probably never even had a real job.

mshara1. Wouldn't that be the fault of the cleaning ladies and they are the one's to be looked down on. ?

mshara1 where do you think that grime comes from? They should take some responsibility for their own surroundings.

Legit?

Not anymore. He left and went back to London.

Lol 😂

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