U've got staff buses in your place ?!! Wow !! Here in South India, a totally exhausted driver who have driven 6 singles (1single= 60kms) in a shift must go home by himself. U people are lucky
Making this video on the back end of a late shift and making it good, bravo sir! We don't have this whole 'staff bus / car' set up. :( 90% of shifts start or finish leaving no services to hop on either and no staff parking, I'm a little jealous. TBH if we had such a thing, I doubt much like yourselves that anyone would really want to hang around for it either. Would be a nice back up to have if needed mind.
That bus station is massive we got a tiny one in Poole holds about 12 busses and the one in Bournemouth might as well be flattened as only national express and 3 other services use it
I'll be honest it's a great bus station, it could do with a refurb on the inside but I support metro can't keep throwing money in to it. Its just had the outside painted and looks 100% better than what it did before. I don't know what id do with a small bus station if it got busy. Even in the side of our station we sometimes cant pull onto stand in good time as other operators are there! its a pain at times haha The coaches use stand A B :)
TheLCNW the bus station in Bournemouth is in the wrong place In fact I’d say it’s more of a taxi rank than a bus station and as for what they do in town that’s just dangerous
The Flat Cap Bus Driver that happens in Poole and when I moved from Cardiff there busses took a lot of getting used to as to different companies can’t use tickets on each others busses they give change Cardiff don’t ow and when you have a problem with your ticket in Poole they tell you to fuck off back to Cardiff the drivers for all companies are brilliant can’t fault them it’s the muppets in the office I don’t like
Cool vid and damn potholes! Never apologise!! As long as you've enjoyed - do your vids when you get chance! Great when you take people home - but fab when you get the odd night off the staff car! Just subbed too : )
It’s 3.5km from my bus depot to home. I take my car as to walk would take about 20 to 25 minutes. Also it may be raining or at night, so the car is the best option. There would be no call for a staff bus as our shifts often finish at vastly different times. There is no depot supervisor, so we park the bus, check it over, do the logbook work, lock up, and drive home. Picton, South Island, New Zealand.
Great video as usual mate, shame that nobody wanted the staff bus which threw a spanner in the works for your video, but in the plus side that’s an extra hours pay for you 😉
Hi mate been subscribed for a month or two now , and I find your vlogs really interesting 👍 happy new year to you and your family and keep up the good work 👍
Thank you so much for the support mate, you have no idea how much it means to me! We've had a great start to the new year. I hope you have too! take care matey
I usually see a lot of drivers get on buses I love this video I get on buses every single day rather 148 149 or 189 then 125 depends how quick I need to get home
I just came across this. Reminded me of my days of driving, back then before the dreaded Stagecoach buyout it was Hull Corporation Transport or Corpo as it was known. We had a similar set up - 3.30am AD shift two men each with a minibus picking up the drivers who needed to be at the depot for 4.30. Great shift, you could be finished for the day by 7am if the inspector was in a good mood! Similar late shift finishing at 1.15am, last bus into depot for midnight and then drop drivers home. Ah but how do you get to and from work for these shifts? We had a night shunter who picked /dropped you off. He was there to park up the vehicles after the cleaners had done with them. Those were the days ( I left in 2000)
We use taxies for our 'staff bus' and to get one you just need to live in a place that doesn't have a bus service at the time you want to get to work or head home, so they get used lots. But back in the day (30 years ago), there was an early and late bus service from the main depots that ran a fixed route.
as always sarah thank you for the comment. Ive had a lovely week, just had my two days off!! how has your week been :) once again thank you and i hope you've had a lovely week
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver you welcome Shaun. It great you had a good week. Mines been good. I saw my friends at Gems. (A club for adults with disabilities) on Tues. I had an awesome time. It was good to see everyone again after the Christmas break. 😀😃🚌🚍
My local Arriva depot in Southend have a delivery van type minibus that we use for the staff bus duty between Southend Depot and Southend Bus Station and I see quite a lot of drivers at Southend Bus Station use it
Hahahah they are honestly really decent here! They Don’t take the pi** out of people and always help folk out so least I can do is ask if they need owt hahah unless it’s over time hahahah 😂😂😂
If I pay in extra, I ALWAYS take it the next 😜 it’s better in my pocket, than theirs. I got a nice little bonus today! I noticed my cash tray was slightly open in my bag & had coins floating around the bottom of my bag. After counting everything up, I was £7 up - So all the times I was down the odd quid, I wasn’t.
always wondered how's the transition feel when going from driving a huge vehicle to a small one ,,bus to car, I find it difficult enough driving my car lol 😅😅
I sometimes use the staff bus but as at my depot it is in so much high demand it’s a pain. So I walk 20 minutes. My depot generally use their Minibus which drops off at local areas around the depot within a 3 mile radius.
pain sometimes isn't it! not having a car was a right pain in the bottom but its all good now! I still use the staff bus but only when its a late finish:)
But I do suppose that the Staff bus is a good idea to encourage drivers to drive for them. And a thing about it, it’s entirely free which is an added benefit as your not footing the cost of petrol/diesel.
@@yorkshireseasider Ive a wife and two kids mate, if its something you'd like to do then honestly id ask a few companies will pay for your training so your not loosing any money :) give it a go if you like :)
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver Fair enough. Suppose it's an easier life even more, as your shifts will be easier and having to deal with less traffic with it being a Sunday
its a difficult one to answer mate, its down to the fact of whether you have business insurance on your car. if something happens then its all on your own back! some people do and some dont its down to the driver really
A very informative video Shaun! 🚍📹😊👍
thank you anton
Yes it is very informative
hi anton u the best yt with shaun
Great explanation and plus I live around the corner from my local bus depot so I see buses and bus drivers all of the time
Great explanation, always hate waiting for staff bus, car in your case
Mate, waiting sometimes upto 45 mins! so happy the car is now fixed. Life saver i tell you!!
New follower. Not seen a bus vlogger. Love the content . All the best.
U've got staff buses in your place ?!! Wow !! Here in South India, a totally exhausted driver who have driven 6 singles (1single= 60kms) in a shift must go home by himself. U people are lucky
That sound is amazing and don't rush to upload videos, just do it when you can. :-) The Robin singing at the end is so sweet.
Greetings from Orlando, Florida USA 🇺🇸 Thank you for sharing buddy!
Great video. Really enjoy these, even after working a 11 hour duty! Keep it up!
ouch! long day mate! thank you so much for the support
Great video and I’ve seen some 126 bus drivers in Bromley when they finish their shift and they drive the staff bus! :)
Making this video on the back end of a late shift and making it good, bravo sir! We don't have this whole 'staff bus / car' set up. :( 90% of shifts start or finish leaving no services to hop on either and no staff parking, I'm a little jealous. TBH if we had such a thing, I doubt much like yourselves that anyone would really want to hang around for it either. Would be a nice back up to have if needed mind.
That bus station is massive we got a tiny one in Poole holds about 12 busses and the one in Bournemouth might as well be flattened as only national express and 3 other services use it
I'll be honest it's a great bus station, it could do with a refurb on the inside but I support metro can't keep throwing money in to it. Its just had the outside painted and looks 100% better than what it did before.
I don't know what id do with a small bus station if it got busy. Even in the side of our station we sometimes cant pull onto stand in good time as other operators are there! its a pain at times haha The coaches use stand A B :)
TheLCNW the bus station in Bournemouth is in the wrong place In fact I’d say it’s more of a taxi rank than a bus station and as for what they do in town that’s just dangerous
The Flat Cap Bus Driver that happens in Poole and when I moved from Cardiff there busses took a lot of getting used to as to different companies can’t use tickets on each others busses they give change Cardiff don’t ow and when you have a problem with your ticket in Poole they tell you to fuck off back to Cardiff the drivers for all companies are brilliant can’t fault them it’s the muppets in the office I don’t like
Funny With lunny Bournemouth sucks
Jamie Robert I couldn’t agree more
Those 202/203 buses are with us in Northumbria, they haven't been debranded so in Newcastle they are still branded for 202/3.
I know grr best buses in yorkshire they sent us wright urghh
Cool vid and damn potholes! Never apologise!! As long as you've enjoyed - do your vids when you get chance! Great when you take people home - but fab when you get the odd night off the staff car! Just subbed too : )
It’s 3.5km from my bus depot to home. I take my car as to walk would take about 20 to 25 minutes. Also it may be raining or at night, so the car is the best option. There would be no call for a staff bus as our shifts often finish at vastly different times. There is no depot supervisor, so we park the bus, check it over, do the logbook work, lock up, and drive home.
Picton, South Island, New Zealand.
Love the videos mate, well insightful to see into the life of a bus driver.
thank you so much for the comment! glad your liking the video!
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver love you guys you are good guys keep going guys be careful guys 😉 xx
Yet again a great video never let us down mate
Thank you mate 🚌🚍
Thank you so much mate, the support overwhelms me all the time :)
Great video as usual mate, shame that nobody wanted the staff bus which threw a spanner in the works for your video, but in the plus side that’s an extra hours pay for you 😉
thank you jonny, that extra hour in bed ;) hahah sleeping and getting paid haha
The Flat Cap Bus Driver can’t beat it mate
Great video. I never heared about a staf-bus. This daily-life videos have loads of content that I as a passenger can't see! Well done!
Im so glad that ive shown you the behind the scenes things that you dont normally see :) hope youre enjoying these
Hi mate been subscribed for a month or two now , and I find your vlogs really interesting 👍 happy new year to you and your family and keep up the good work 👍
Thank you so much for the support mate, you have no idea how much it means to me! We've had a great start to the new year. I hope you have too! take care matey
I usually see a lot of drivers get on buses I love this video I get on buses every single day rather 148 149 or 189 then 125 depends how quick I need to get home
Thank you so much the for support jess! nothing better than getting the bus home!!
I just came across this. Reminded me of my days of driving, back then before the dreaded Stagecoach buyout it was Hull Corporation Transport or Corpo as it was known. We had a similar set up - 3.30am AD shift two men each with a minibus picking up the drivers who needed to be at the depot for 4.30. Great shift, you could be finished for the day by 7am if the inspector was in a good mood! Similar late shift finishing at 1.15am, last bus into depot for midnight and then drop drivers home. Ah but how do you get to and from work for these shifts? We had a night shunter who picked /dropped you off. He was there to park up the vehicles after the cleaners had done with them. Those were the days ( I left in 2000)
We use taxies for our 'staff bus' and to get one you just need to live in a place that doesn't have a bus service at the time you want to get to work or head home, so they get used lots.
But back in the day (30 years ago), there was an early and late bus service from the main depots that ran a fixed route.
Great video Shaun, very interesting!
thank you mate, glad you enjoyed this one :)
Great video really enjoyed it happy new year to you
New to your channel all the way from NYC your doing a great job
Great video as always Shaun. Hope you well & having a good week. 😀👍🏻🚍😊
as always sarah thank you for the comment. Ive had a lovely week, just had my two days off!! how has your week been :) once again thank you and i hope you've had a lovely week
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver you welcome Shaun. It great you had a good week. Mines been good. I saw my friends at Gems. (A club for adults with disabilities) on Tues. I had an awesome time. It was good to see everyone again after the Christmas break. 😀😃🚌🚍
Great video as always.
Thank you so much mate, means so much!!
great video I have seen you driving in huddesfield before.
Love the video, must be annoying driving a bus with potholes
Great Vlog (video) subscriber bus driver from Sydney 🇦🇺
Thank you mate, hope all is well over the water!!
This was made on my birthday
It never used to be that quiet at night. Last outbound Golcar used to be after midnight. Those were the days.
ouch, golcar at midnight! I swear golcar has so many buses going through! Id i relied on buses I would live there haha !!
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver I do rely on buses and Farce Group lol
I love the way he says Depot
My local Arriva depot in Southend have a delivery van type minibus that we use for the staff bus duty between Southend Depot and Southend Bus Station and I see quite a lot of drivers at Southend Bus Station use it
Another great video Shaun top man 👍
Rossyboy. Thank you mate, as always a lovely comment! hope all is well mate.
The Flat Cap Bus Driver .... yeah things are great here Shaun I canny grumble Pal.
Asking your supervisor if there is anything you want me to do sound like a big mistake, drive the bus in the depot and sneak home.
Hahahah they are honestly really decent here! They Don’t take the pi** out of people and always help folk out so least I can do is ask if they need owt hahah unless it’s over time hahahah 😂😂😂
Did the Theory, Hazard and CPC stuff today. Monday 8.00 shifting gears in some old clunker no doubt...😂
ooooosh, hope it all goes well mate. keep me updated and if you need any advice then please message me on facebook :)
Just wait untill thay start diging up and improveing the ringroad its going to be a nightmarw geting in to the starion in hudds
That's a nice bus
If I pay in extra, I ALWAYS take it the next 😜 it’s better in my pocket, than theirs.
I got a nice little bonus today! I noticed my cash tray was slightly open in my bag & had coins floating around the bottom of my bag. After counting everything up, I was £7 up - So all the times I was down the odd quid, I wasn’t.
Im really bad sometimes at cashing in! Im always short and I dont know why! its weird haha!! So when I know im short they can have it haha
I dont miss the days of driving buses round Manchester lol - ive been coach driving since i was 21
the only place I won't drive is Oldham lol !! cant stand driving around there !!
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver I'm training around there with first Manchester.
Good video,
Going to work at 4 am or going home at 1 am - it was on your own. No staff transport where I worked.
Just by car... 💪
Good Vid Shaun keep it up bud 👌👌
thank you mate!!
The Flat Cap Bus Driver no problem 🤟🏼🤟🏼
Great video! Your getting lots of subbs now, you should do some thing special for 5k
I've got something really special! hope you're all ready :)
Cool vid now I can get home
That's realy intresting to know :)
good!
Love you video
I like the bus you driving
Thank you mate. its lovely to drive
And here I am thinking train drivers had a weird schedule
always wondered how's the transition feel when going from driving a huge vehicle to a small one ,,bus to car, I find it difficult enough driving my car lol 😅😅
Julie Reed Nay,I drive my car and ride my adventure motorcycle to work as a bus driver
Lol Stevie Wonder
I wanna see that entrance
Good videos mate
please do one on hanover blinds
Just subbed
my depot doesn't have a staff bus or car (we do have ferry cars obviously)
Oooooohhhhhhh nice scania
I wish my company had a staff bus! That could potentially be convenient.
Honestly mate, put it to them. its a brilliant idea for drivers to get to and from work
The Flat Cap Bus Driver I just may do that!!
Do you get to choose which buss you take back on the staff bus
Another great video mate. Don’t work too hard will you?
Thank you so much mate. you know me too well don't you ;)
Try victoria station bus station at night. Not very quiet.
do you work in the Huddersfield depot? Ive just applied there and come across your videos
AllThingsCars good stuff :) make sure you say you watch my videos 🧡🚌 hope it all goes well mate
Do you have those annoying built in cash trays in the cab door like Centrebus or do you get your own cash tin?
No mate! we've got our own cash trays !! so much easier hahaha
I sometimes use the staff bus but as at my depot it is in so much high demand it’s a pain. So I walk 20 minutes. My depot generally use their Minibus which drops off at local areas around the depot within a 3 mile radius.
pain sometimes isn't it! not having a car was a right pain in the bottom but its all good now! I still use the staff bus but only when its a late finish:)
But I do suppose that the Staff bus is a good idea to encourage drivers to drive for them. And a thing about it, it’s entirely free which is an added benefit as your not footing the cost of petrol/diesel.
Nice video. Thx. Do you have a "free-card" so that you can be a passenger for free on other Tiger busses during your offtime from work and holidays?
We do get a staff pass ;) Nationwide free transport on all buses :P
My city just has drivers take the same bus as passengers
The bus drivers in my city walk.
Wish I was a bus driver looks like fun
go for it pal :) its a great job :)
I haven’t got the time to do the training mate 2 young kids a wife to support
@@yorkshireseasider Ive a wife and two kids mate, if its something you'd like to do then honestly id ask a few companies will pay for your training so your not loosing any money :) give it a go if you like :)
Let me know if your firm are training up new staff I’m from Huddersfield and al apply
@@yorkshireseasider hit me up on facebook mate, im sure I can help if its something youll be interested in mate
What are the Sunday Shifts like at YT? Or do you not work Sundays
sunday shifts are good, only done one so time will tell! not many drivers work on a sunday
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver Fair enough. Suppose it's an easier life even more, as your shifts will be easier and having to deal with less traffic with it being a Sunday
How you finding the Arriva spilt nearside mirror ?
204driver love it 😍
When I drove, part of the contract you signed stipulated that you had to have a car.
Are you not able to just do the staff bus in your own car if its quiet like some Dublin Bus lads i know do?
its a difficult one to answer mate, its down to the fact of whether you have business insurance on your car. if something happens then its all on your own back! some people do and some dont its down to the driver really
Before even watching the video can i say BUS??
I ride my trusty CB1300 Honda bike to and fro the depot
I ride my KTM Super Adventure S 1299 to work
Western countries; where bus drivers can afford a car! :')
On a car/bus? what's special about this? :D
So on your days off you just come in and drive a random free bus about?
depends if i need to do a video or something along them lines! if needs be then ill have to haha
All imma say from the thumbnail is why is the 233 to hudds always late like it makes me scream
It’s not me who’s late ;) apart from today when someone threw a brick at my bus window 😂😭😭😭😭
Im taking my bus theory test on thursday at second attempt hopefully i will pass.
I passed .
stevenesq yaaaaay!!!
@@WoodysPickle Passed obviously .
Can you do the c39
what the C39 mate?
The Flat Cap Bus Driver yes
The Flat Cap Bus Driver yea the school service
Conor’s Trains sorry mate I wont be filming school services for the obvious reasons😭🚌
You don't have to film it but I really wanna see you
How does the staff bus driver get home ?
usually drives home! hahah if the staff driver hasn't got a car then someone else will do it for them haha
hey gorgeous
and us buses we are thing to we need sleep to help us help the bus
are you not worried about getting sacked?
Why would I be ?
why do bus driver just wait at bus stop for 10 mins. it really annoys me. i cycle home now as it way quicker then being on a bus.
all to do with timing points! haha
Taxi?..
O
Carbon footprint of this disgusts me