Unveiling the Truth: My Month as a London Bus Driver and My Earnings 

Yes they do I’ve seen for myself

question: are you ever able to just take a bus from the depot whenever you want and go for a joy ride in it?

mopped, you mean, moped is a two-wheeled vehicle with an engine

@@Suliplayz5264 ofc not haha

​@@Suliplayz5264I wish😂

Cry more Greta

@@83dude just say you have no human decency

Small world my friend 🤣

One Agency is paying £21/hour plus £185/week bonus and that's outside London where cost of living is cheaper. This pay is online going to increase if the driver shortage gets worse.

That’s like 6k a month, it must of been a huge amount of tax right?

​@bodazephyr6629 which agency is that?

@@nikoskaramarigos IntSol Recruitment

@@nikoskaramarigos intergrated solutions

My dad worked for Stagecoach in Birmingham or Cambridgeshire, I think. Name Roger Wood.

Thats different tbf, in london customers dont ask for their destination so you barely have to hear the customer. Still, the constant fan would be annoying though I agree

Thank you very much

You can train to be a bus driver for free at most bus companies as the government fund it but the pay is poor for what it is, I got my license with stagecoach did the two years you have to do to pay back the bond, the issue is you only make good money if you put the hours in, there is loads of overtime to be had can easily get £900-£1000 take home a week working like a nutter but to work a healthy amount of hours you only get £450-£500 a week. Anyway once I did my two years I went and used some of the money I saved up from the overtime to go and do my HGV class 1 license and it was easy due to the experience of driving buses and the fact you automaticall get provisonal lorry entitlement when getting your bus license. earning as much now on a 45 hour week as I did when doing a 70 hour week with Stagecoach.

@@gravemind6536 do you sleep in your bed every night or do tramping? Because that is where the biggest money on the lorries is. You can always earn more money, but can't earn time home back - my conclusion after years.

Yes plus now they must spend 5 days in the classroom doing the CPC course

Do you mean how little time?

@@bodazephyr6629 yes I’ve done the CPC a couple of times but retired now. The CPC in my opinion is a waste of time.

Not really got mine in 9 days. That includes theory, hazard perception, practical training plus test, module 2 and 4 cpc

@@mrwaltzerboy what company u with

I work for Arriva in the north east and was surprised by this beautiful spacious rest area!. Our depot is a terrible old building!.

I agree. Dangerous manoeuvre. Especially on an oily garage forecourt.

I agree, also it might be a hot day but I’d still wear safety gear starting with gloves on the bike

Wasn't the film speeded up?

I also agree...the only reason I came here to say driving at 21 mph was ridiculously dangerous. I wonder what you are like driving a bus when customers get you angry. C.A.R.P. ( I shouldn't have to tell you what this means...😮

​@@ZL54JK8Yes the video was speeded up but 21 mph is 21 mph, slowing the video down or having the video speeded up doesn't make any difference in the offence committed under TFL health and safety 5mph max.

I drove for Stagecoach in London, some of of loan drivers who come from NORTH of England say exactly what you say

I disagree, I've done it in central London and in the provinces and I think the job is easier outside of London, although the Oyster system is an advantage in London the extra stress outweighs that.

But passengers outside London, especially small towns and countryside, are far more civilised. They don't have shielded cab doors for no reason here 😖

@@TheWildeFish I live in Leicester and believe me - the drivers are well shielded too.

That canteen has had a massive overhaul, it wasn't like that when I was there in 2009.

Is it free food?

​@@lloydeelloydwhen

@@ChadLuca no but rather subsidized

Yeah, I definitely agree

Not fun

It was my first time driving a van too. But I passed. They're looking for mirror checks, braking, speed and reading road signs. If someone is unable to drive a van safely, then how are they able to drive a bus safely with passengers? They need the right candidate for the job.

@@EinkOLED I clipped the kerbs, it was nothing to do with my driving

@@stanthemafia If you clipped the kerb that it is still due to your driving. The driving standards are high due to a reason. But it depends on which garage/depot you apply to. The instructor just wants to know whether you have the ability to pass your PCV, and whether you have the qualities to become a safe driver.

More money but not enough more to cover the huge cost of living in London

@@bodazephyr6629yeah but fortunately im living with my girlfriend so rent isn’t that much

Nobody in their right mind would choose London over the midlands, people from the midlands are so friendly and the area looks amazing with all the old buildings and nature London however is a crowded miserable dump,I have lived in both areas and can't stand London

​@@Aquaowenis your wages ok?

@@RileEren It's good enough, however I'm changing my career and heading back to uni now. I know that I'm still owed my backpay for the pay rise that was meant to happen in April, I left in July.

Go ahead ( Plymouth City Bus ) £15 an hour, transfer down here.

Somewhere like London the shortage of drivers will be less than say Oxford so therefore the pay will be less especially at service work level.

Thank you bro

Not a good idea to quit a job after 1 viral video why stick to 1 income when u can have 2 incomes.

IMO being a bus driver is a sight more useful to society than being an “influencer” is.

@@chemistmanuk Seriously. The only people I watch are people with jobs or hobbies they actually like or are passionate about.

Respect? No chance

How much money?

Thanks 👍

I had 4 days. Mon-thur. Test on the Friday morning. No pass, no job! That was 1994. Luckily I passed.

how did it go?

So far so good. My test is next week.

​@@darrenfaux4882how much money do u get

Driving in Denmark must be nice. How much do bus driver get paid there?

​@@bodazephyr6629are you English?

That pretty much sums the job up you get used and abused by the powers above you, the passengers are rude, ungrateful and at times downright idiotic traffic is a nightmare and nobody will let you out of bus stops let alone anywhere else. Its also a job where I feel like no matter what you do you just can't win. But I was trained for free and earn't some decent money in the 2 years I've done the job but I'm moving on to Lorry driving class 1 better money, driving nicer vehicles that are comfy and don't rattle like mad and no passengers sure the hours are still long but I won't be spending nearly as much time stressed and pissed off.

Thanks bro 👊🏼

For a 38 hours a week, its 15.69 per hour

They're on £16/hour plus weekend bonus. Plus cost of living is much less in Manchester.

I would say it’s your £10.90 that is way too low. But think about it - £14.00 an hour working and living in London is really not a living wage for the area. Most bus and train drivers do overtime in order to be able to afford to live. Support workers and bus drivers are skilled jobs. We’ve got used to the idea that £10 per hour in the UK is an acceptable rate of pay when it’s clearly not, especially with inflation currently running at 6% p.a.

@@buzzukfiftythreeyea exactly U.K. economy is fucked

He lives in London..!!!

You should probably leave your job. That's criminally low

I do support work. It's ok, only ok though. Is it adult or young people work? I'm on £16.50ph. I missed out on nights and would have been £18ph adding night payment. Sometimes I feel like driving a bus or lorry though. Hands on people work can be tosh. This in in North England.

How much money did he steal?

@@83dude 😳 What kind of stupid question is that ?

There is cleaners that clean and mop the bus every night

Thanks! Will do!

Outside of London*

Thanks bro and yeah money is not that great specially in london

@@MrTasar just rob banks

Its true 🤣

@@delboy7039 hi what's your wages

Why did you leave?

@@RileEren Very unsociable job and nasty passengers, I returned in 2011 and worked for 2 years at metroline. Since 2013, not done service bus work, my cpc expired in 2018 too.

its fine as long as u dont crash ur good so u can go 100mph if u want

It's pretty piss poor for London Sainsburys Drivers on 3.5 tonne get 13.50!!

@@neilredbar7344 Their union needs to strike to increase for cost of living.

​@neilredbar7344 but aren't sainsburys drivers doing more work like loading their trucks?

loading a van takes 15 minutes by yourself unloading 10 mins but i dont have to deal with the public nor their noise and mess. freedom to take a break whenever i want stop and smoke whenever i want but anyway the point was that 14 for a bus driver in london is poor@@stanielsoncoochiesmellehsm6114

I make 20.17 5 years experience.

Bus gets cleaned up by the cleaners every night and thats not my job

​@@MrTasarDisgusting.

he crashed the bus 6 times

Each garage is different when it comes to pay

Bunch of sweeping generalisatons.

Are you able to just work faster?

@@Abc-li1ij people are walking over 2 marathons a week, it catches up with people in the End

😂😂😂😂​@@Abc-li1ij

My pleasure!

As you rightly say, local authorities are being starved of funds by national government and that’s one of the big problems of our time. One pays Council Tax to the local council, but central government largely takes that and then doles out money to the same councils by means of grants. Plus, as most bus services are provided by private companies, there is the question of how much are the bosses of those companies being paid.

Not true if they have money for pride flags and their own high wages and pensions.

100% correct rural Norfolk routes canceled without a car you stuffed

35k is the average wage in the UK, so it's not bad at all. People are just greedy.

@@LawrenceTimme Can you live on 35k with a family and paying rent , that average is together with the top 1% who earn over 100k a year so I wouldn`t say that the average wage is even 35k , it`s even lower. A decentish wage for a lorry/bus driver is over 45k to have a decent living . Where I work as a Lorry driver our base wage is over 50k so it`s not that companies can`t pay , they pay what the market is willing to accept so as long as people accept 13-14ph jobs that is what companies will pay .

London doesn't do tickets for years now, he only has to enter his driver number, route and service.

Yep

@@Ryan-uh9le is it standard pay or like a reduced pay? I've thought about doing this for a year or so just to change up my life

​@@theliamcookeit's reduced, when I was training in 2005 I was getting £200 a week. Monday to Friday and pretty long intensive days . Was starting at 7 and not getting off till 5

@@ahmedsalah5364 do you work as a bus driver?

How did you get on with assessment? Was maths test hard? I have mine later on this week. Did you get offered job??

@joe-don8907 Hi mate, I got offered the job. The assessment is so easy, as is the driving test. It's the work culture and training I didn't like. I started about 3 weeks ago, and I left today. I can explain fully, which I will try to explain. The day I started, it seemed okay. However, it all changed just a few days in. The training staff were obnoxious, rude, and overbearing. During my initial driving training, they were just really unpleasant. Made regular comments about your driving instead of giving constructive advice. A girl my age (28) was regularly made uncomfortable by sexual advances from the training staff. On more than one occasion, I had to tell them to stop it as it was inappropriate. I passed my theory test and continued training on the bus itself. Again, the staff continued to be unpleasant, herrasing the female trainee and being general dick heads. It was not just me and the girl experiencing issues. Every single trainee on my intake of 7 people, including myself, had issues with the training staff. It all came to a head when one of the other trainees so fed up with being constantly spoke down to, made fun off, joked about, and made to feel unwelcome punched one of the training team. Following this incident, we were all brought in to speak with the depot manager. Out of 7 trainees, all of us decided to leave, despite the depot manager begging us to stay and explaining things would change. The training staff are awful middle-aged men, made miserable from years driving buses. So they enjoy making new drivers feel worthless to give themselves some pointless sense of pride. I've since got a new job as a storesman at a nice electrical /mechanical company. Unless you're really up for it, mate, I'd steer clear of Arriva and Stagecoach's trainee programs. If you want to be a bus driver, self fund your training and go to a company on your own terms without the trainee crap.

doing 80 hours a week

Average is 60 hours, I've never hit 80 but 75 once a month

Yeah

75k Mexican peso?

Thank you too!