Any bus driver

[nitros]

I'm think to change job, I might be interested in a bus driver.
But do you guys know what shift a bus driver normally do?

An average wage?

Thanks

[SamS]

I don't think the average wage for a bus driver is very good, and tbh, the job would never interest me, doing the same routes day in day out, seeing the same old faces everyday.

But, at the end of the day, it's a job.

[Ross Northcott]

Pikey mark (raptor mark) off the forum is a bus driver, he should be able to answer all your questions

[unwind-protect]

I very nearly became a bust driver (for reasons which aren't particularly interesting)... still have my provisional PSV I think, which I should try to exercise before it expires!

I suspect other companies may be different, but Stagecoach here was a complete nightmare. They would schedule (apparently) random shifts from one day to the next, so you might be working late one day, then early the next with just the mandatory break between (8hrs?). Sometimes I think the mandatory break may be in the middle of the logical working day, though I don't remember how that was supposed to work. I don't think I could have done it for long.

I imagine coach work is different, though.

On the plus side, bus drivers always seem to be in demand (I wonder why?!).

[raptormark]

37.5 hours a week at about £ 9.85 hour .5 days over 7 ,my hours 5am-2 ,10am -7pm, 4pm-12 i do 8 different routes over the week.Its not the best job but it pays the bills and Im not claiming dole so a winner for me as i dont like being out of work and always ovetime.

[nitros]

[QUOTE=raptormark;892456]37.5 hours a week at about £ 9.85 hour .5 days over 7 ,my hours 5am-2 ,10am -7pm, 4pm-12 i do 8 different routes over the week.Its not the best job but it pays the bills and Im not claiming dole so a winner for me as i dont like being out of work and always ovetime.[/QUOTE]

My main reason is I don't want do weekends.
Do you do week end

[raptormark]

yes but i dont do sundays and every so often i get a long weekend i work for first bus

[electricsceadu]

as for the weekend work it depends on what company a bus or coach drivers job is a 7 days of the week
and you can work on any of the days depending on your rest day (the rest day can be in the middle of the week)
Mark gets paid better than the bus drivers where i work
the coach drivers get paid better than our bus drivers
but the hours are long and you get very little home life (or should i say sleep time until you need to be back at work)

[nitros]

Cool thank, i just need to look now how to get the license and what it's take to get hired

[electricsceadu]

with the license
you'll need to pass a medical
then apply for the provisional (you do need a full car licence)

if you fail the medical you won't get a licence


once you have the licence
and l plates
you then take the various tests

you can drive on a motorway with the l plates as you already have a full car licence

the best way is to either go on a training course to take the test
go for a manual licence as you can drive manual or auto's
if you take an auto test you can only drive auto's

or
get a job as a trainee driver at a bus/coach company
but you may have to work for said company x many years or you will have to pay back the training and test fee's

[p4ddy]

£24k-£46k at my place. Yea yea holy thread revival batman. Yes huge jump in potential earnings but it takes a while to get across to the high potential due to the waiting list. However it's all meaningless unless you have a PCV (mines been wrongly revoked so I'm about to be made redundant)

Soooo looking at retraining options. As it could be sometime before I can get my PCV plus hgv provisional back I'm considering learning to be a brickie. Not sure of the employement potential for a newly qualified 50+ brickie is like though.