[Closed] First time on a Bus - driver was a C**K

Could be worse, some little herbet could be playing the latest N-Dubs banger out of their mobile phone.

Contact the bus company and let them know.

allthepies - I think I will. I know it sounds like I'm being a moaner but the more I think about it the more I wish I'd said something first time it happened.

Standard Operating Proceedure for buses innit? someone who hangs about waiting for a space in traffic before pulling out should be the one reported as he/she clearly hasn't had the proper training usually afforded to bus drivers

tight schedule I expect, not really the drivers fault he has to stick to it. Stops probably have to be as quick as possible or the one behind starts to catch him up. I expect you'd moan if it was late too.

isn't that the only fun part about using buses?

isn't that the only fun part about using buses?

Unless you're old.

[i]they now have to play human pinball everytime they get on a bus [/i]

At least they can console themselves that they're riding the bus for free.

At least they can console themselves that they're riding the bus for free.

Exactly, they should think themselves lucky they're not on the roof!

Report the driver , if it were your parents and they fell over ending up in hospital bet you would not be very happy . In my veiw drivers who do this are ar*es if the passenger falls they are making work for them selfs ie filling report forms in and police and company interviews . Oh yes dare i say im a bus driver so that means other drivers hate me at work and at play ( on the bike ) 🙄

they were clinging to the rails and having to make their way like orangutangs to the first available seat

😆

My wife does not drive and so she, plus our 3 little Ho hums, has to use the buses a lot. Most of the time she does not say anything about the drivers, but sometimes she will remark on the odd driver who does something similar to what the OP said. I think she has reported a driver on more than one occasion.

However, quite often she will remark on the helpful drivers she has come across. So, based on her experience, the bus drivers up here tend to be quite decent.

why didnt you offer your seat to one of the elderly people?

(its not like you paid and they're on there for free, enjoying the sensation of "bus surfing" or anything)

actually... were any of them hot? you could have offered for the fittest one to sit on your lap "'cos the seats are a bit hard and you're laps nice and soft... at the moment :wink:"

Jamie - Member

isn't that the only fun part about using buses?

Unless you're old.

I'm SO looking forward to my Bus Pass, then.

Next year...

[i]why didnt you offer your seat to one of the elderly people?[/i]

There wasn't a shortage of seats so there was no need. None of the 'chicks' were what you would call [i]'hot'[/i] 😉

The missus uses the bus.

She has had run in with two drivers. Both of them for being cs to her.

First driver refused to let her use her student bus pass and which obviously perplexed her. She was made to buy a ticket which was a benefit in the end. Then he topped it off by telling her that fing foreigners shouldn't be here and he was fed up of them.

I called the company about that, they asked if I could identify the driver, well of course we could we had a ticket from him.

He wasn't fired and he continued to act like a knob. In the winter the same driver stopped about 10 yards from the bus stop where the missus was standing. She walked to the bus to get on, he tapped his watch and refused to open the door. She stood there waiting, he waited a few minutes then drove the 10 yards to the bus stop, open and shut the doors and drove off.

I went ballistic about that, told the bus company if they didn't do something about him I would go to the newspapers, the college, local equal rights groups and anybody else I could think of.

He wasn't seen on that route again.

Other driver, just refused to let her use her pass, time and time again. She kept buying tickets, same driver, kept complaining, until he obviously had got a decent bollocking. He would then spend a good minute inspecting her pass and ID every time she got on, like a c****.

I contacted the company about this, but said I was very happy with the efficiency of the drivers and the length of time the took to ensure that the correct passes were being used and I appreciated that some drivers probably found it harder to remember all the passes as easily as the others and would require a bit longer inspecting them.

So that stopped and he just let her on after that.

God monster post, sorry about that.

I'll tell tales of buses racing in Bangkok and near misses. Or Korean buses where they braked so hard and accelerated so fast that I got car sick every time I was on.

I find most bus drivers to be absolute cocks, having said that the guy next door drives a bus and he's nice enough. I wonder if he's a cock behind the wheel though. I'm ashamed to say the only two people I've punched in my adult life have been bus drivers. Had a knee op years ago, got on a bus with crutches and the tit drove off before I could sit down, I went mad smacking his safety glass with me crutches!!

I called the company about that, they asked if I could identify the driver, well of course we could we had a ticket from him.

Above the front window of the bus, inside and out, will be a number (not the route no, but one that identifies the bus itself) that number plus the time and date identifies the driver. So you don't need a ticket, or to have been on the bus to identify them.

For the entire journey most of the people who got on were pensioners.

I don't live in London anymore but used to use buses now and then down there. Can't remember a single driver that even made eye contact - hold up a pass and get on. Think the Oyster system may have changed that...

Local ones to me now are all as bad as the many stories above and like those other 'professional' drivers - the taxi mob - have no courtesy, common sense or respect for speed limits. RUSSTY - do you all hate your jobs?

No i dont hate the job , cant remember the last time i got any agro off passengers or other road users so i must be doing something right . Its the same drivers at our place who get agro and thats cos of their attitude

cb - I live and work in London, and I buy paper travelcards as I always forget to swipe my oyster card out and that trick still works. I make a point of saying "good morning" or whatever to the driver and they still won't look at the pass. I don't want to take the p*ss though so once my weekly ticket is 3 or 4 days out of date I buy a new one. Sometimes there are inspectors on the buses, they have never been aware enough of the date to clock me either.

My gripe with the buses is that atm it's the school holidays so my journey should be quicker as the roads are empty but the bus driver is intentionally slow, stops at bus stops where there is no one getting on or off the bus, misses the lights on purpose. I think its the most frustrating part of my work day

I was punched by a bus driver on the 210 bus in N.London when I was 12; he charged me 20p instead of the usual 10p and hit me when I complained.

The only c0ck of a bus driver I have encountered was the one who tried, intentionally to run me over as I "shouldn't be cycling on this road" (4 months after the no-cyclists signs were removed following the end of the roadworks necessitating them).

Fortunately, after I wrenched his door open and got on, I only just resisted the urge to punch him. The cctv at the junction and passenger statements were sufficient for his dangerous driving charge.

Once caught a bus in Bristol that got a bit extreme 😀 got on a whiteladies road and the driver was off like a rocket, going around the triangle was an experience but then she launched it down park street 😯 some people actually started screaming we must have been doing 60mph, she didnt bother stopping at the Hippodrome even though the bell was being rung. Ran a red light and then shot along it think it is Quay Street. One woman called her a reckless bitch as she got off that seemed to incense the driver who tried to run her over. Next stop the bus just emptied and off she went. It was the only time I have ever complained about another driver. The man at the bus company said "she does seem to be having a bad day" about a month later it was in the paper that she had been sacked for gross misconduct.

^^^^

Sounds like the bus driving equivalent of that film Falling Down!