Bus drivers do get a lot of abuse.

We've got a few that got fed up with it and find taking school children so much easier and prefer getting off shifts too.

 

It IS irritating when you get stuck behind one, then it stops to load up with passengers, and you can't get past, lah de dah.....

 

....BUT, the driver is simply doing his job, moving the great unwashed around.

Google?

 

http://www.justanswer.com/uk-law/5zwya-local-authority-allow-taxis-stop-bus-stops.html

Not at all. Two wrongs don't make a right, shouldn't tar everyone with the same, brush etc etc and that wasn't what I was getting at.

 

What I didn't add (wrote the above on a coffee break from my garage) and was meant to, was it's just a few words between professional drivers and something I would expect any driver on the road to experience. Nothing more or less and certainly nothing worth getting nickers in a twist about.

 

 Fair enough, agree with that! 

Round here the bus stops have notices "no stopping except for buses" then some have time restrictions. 

 

The worst one that I had was the woman who was dropping her kids off for the school bus, parked in the bus stop off a 60mph main road. I pulled in, had to pull right to her bumper to get off the road safely. Picked up, dropped off and she was still there so I honked the horn. She got out and said "why dont you reverse" I explained I was not going to reverse because she wanted to park in the bus stop and she shouldn't be there anyway. She told me she was parked there to drop her kids off to the school bus and there was nowhere else to stop. I pointed out this stop was literally yards from a quiet side road, turned the bus off and started calling the office. She asked what I was doing, once I told her she ****ed off round the corner.  

 

I'm not a jobs worth, if I can safely get in and out stops with a car stopped in it then I will but park half way along it or whatever to make my life even more awkward then I'll make yours harder in return. Taxis do often take the ****, everywhere I've been so far they seem to park where they like, stop where they like etc. That said there are a few decent ones round here who will help us (buses) get out tricky turnings and stuff, same as everything good and bad of them. 

I have been a pcv driver on and off for the last 30 years, driven literally millions of miles, and seen most things, and I can say that undeniably that taxi drivers ( not all of them, obviously ) generally are unfit for any other type of work, as they are brainless, arrogant morons, and are mostly not fit to pick up sloppy turds, never mind be allowed on the queens highway.

 'Tis true.

Bus drivers are all saints, and taxi drivers are all scum, or is it the other way round I can never remember?

Bus drivers are all saints, and taxi drivers are all scum, or is it the other way round I can never remember?

He ought to try drving a double decker bus in Central London like I did for 3 years.  

You have drama and conflict every single day there.

I always fought fire with fire, If someone was courteous to me I reacted in kind.

And if someone had a go, I had a bigger go back.

99% of it is just blowing off steam on roads that are as busy as they can get

between blokes that make their living on them all day.  

 

I always felt a bit better after I  had chucked a few **cks into the most recent person

to do something reckless, dangerous or plain selfish.

Other times you just have to take it like a bi*ch. Sometimes its you that has to do

something selfish.   

 

Black cabbies were the ones that got my goat the most, followed closely by cyclists.

Both of which are very very common in the west end and city.

Cycle messengers are lunatics, you'd get them literally holding onto the bus catching  

a cheeky tow. Despatch riders on motorbikes ducking and diving around you.

 

Van/lorry drivers blocking roads trying to deliver stuff to shops and homes.

Lost and confused  car drivers, stupid commuters on pushbikes, idiot pedestrians

walking out in front of you (give driving a bus along Oxford street a try during Christmas

week if you want to know the definition of having to have eyes up your arse) 

Half of them are tourists from overseas and look the wrong way before they wander out

in your path, add to that regular tube strikes (I worked on 11 tube strike days one year)

where you'd have so many people trying to get on board it was plain ridiculous, bloody

bloody bloody schoolkids acting the goat, being rude or good old fashioned vandalism.

(If you were on the right (wrong) shift you'd get two helpings of that crap some days... Joy )

Stupid oaps trying to take the p155 and catch the bus with their pass during peak times,

roadworks, traffic jams, diversions, those unfortunate individuals with what we called 

'nutter passes' (cos giving all the lunatics and winos free london wide travel is a good idea... :wonder: )  

security alerts, tramps p155ing on the bus even. More or less anything can happen.

There's a 1000 possible things every day that can make you lose it.

And there's nowhere worse to do the job than where I did it.       

Fact is, it's a stressful game, and if you can't take the heat then best not to do it.  

 

Bus drivers are all saints, and taxi drivers are all scum, or is it the other way round I can never remember?

 

 

WHO EXACTLY on here has suggested/ typed/said  that then.

 

Strongly suggest you carefully re-read the posts ^^^^ before you start posting crazy quotes like that load of utter ball cocks   :think:

Edited 19 December, 201312 yr by Mr Ree

WHO EXACTLY on here has suggested/ typed/said  that then.

 

Strongly suggest you carefully re-read the posts ^^^^ before you start posting crazy quotes like that load of utter ball cocks   :think:

WhooooooSssssshhhhhhhh

WHO EXACTLY on here has suggested/ typed/said  that then.

 

Strongly suggest you carefully re-read the posts ^^^^ before you start posting crazy quotes like that load of utter ball cocks   :think:

In 18 Years of driving a cab, the cabs been hit twice by buses, both times while I was stationary. 

 

The 1^st time I was in the official Taxi lay-by (within the marked bay) that services our local bus station, I was getting the punters bags out of the boot when a bus pulled up beside my cab, the driver had pulled up far close to me, and tail whipped my front wing as he turned right out of the station. 

The bus company were bang to rights on this one, but somehow the only CCTV footage of the incident had mysteriously disappeared, so I was forced to take a 50/50 settlement, and considered myself to be well and truly tucked up.

 

 

The 2^nd time I was in the High St stationary behind a bus, on the other side of the road where a couple of trucks legally parked making deliveries to the covered market, thus creating a Formula 1 style shicain for James Hunt/Bus Driver to try and squeeze his racing vehicle through, thus tail whipping (this time) my rear wing causing £500+ worth of damage.

 

Not wanting to get mugged by this lot a 2^nd time I quickly took the number of the bus that had just pulled up behind me (onboard CCTV) and a picture of the position of my car on the road clearly showing that my cab was at least 12’’ inside the middle white line, witnessed by a member of public and the bus driver behind me (the bus driver who incidentally refused to give me his name and badge number, shady lot) I then asked James Hunt if he would like to come and take a look at the damage he had just caused to my cab, fully expecting him to deny any fault or knowledge of the incident and that his name wasn’t James Hunt, but it in fact Andy McNab, because these drivers must be trained up by The SAS on behalf of the bus companies, in the art of denying any kind of responsibility, but to my surprise he apologised and held his hands up (there’s hope for us yet) I don’t know if it was because he was basically a decent bloke, or maybe he hadn’t been doing the job that long, or maybe the fact that I’m 6ft 3 18 stone and looked slightly aggravated.       

 

 

The 3^rd time was a very very near miss, I was stationary once again, but had pulled out into virtually non moving traffic.

I had dropped off kerbside (yes 2 wheels up on a very wide pavement, more common sense than ignorants) and I hadn’t moved for about 5 minutes, the same as everyone else, I was indicating and had my wheels turned in anticipation, but couldn’t move as I was exactly level with the car next to me, and this bus was behind him, anyway after a couple of more minuets the car next to me slowly nudged forward leaving about a 7/8 foot gap between him and the bus, enough for me to pull into, bearing in mind nobody is going anywhere fast.

With that the driver after realising what I’d done while he hadn’t been paying attention (I had foolishly thought that he hadn’t moved in order to let me out ‘’doh’’) decided to drive his/the company’s battering ram to within 1 inch of my front wing, I looked him in the eye and calmly asked him if he intended to crash into my car, he then responded with the international hand gesture for feeding the chickens, now this would normally be water off a ducks, as I would simply smile take a deep breath nod my head and raise my eyebrows, but this time I completely lost it (it’s the first, and hopefully the last  time I ever lose it like that) due to the fact that this particular battering ram was packed to the gills (at 3:30 pm) with all sorts of ordinary decent people, young and old +1 scumbag, I didn’t lower myself by swearing or returning a hand gesture, but I did repeatedly and progressively more and more angrily dare him to hit my car, like a bit of a mad/crazy/psycho person, this seemed to have unnerved the earring wearing tattooed individual as he turned his head away, and wouldn’t look at me again.

 

 

P.S James Hunt is cockney rhyming slang for James Blunt                           

'You're beautiful'.

 

Some think they are in the same employment that James Blunt once was 'Tank Commanders'.  

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'T', can = 'W' in the Transportation special forces code..

Don't really know about bus stops but the one's in Harrogate are usually next to those islands in the road.

 

 

Traffic hold up's or what

Don't really know about bus stops but the one's in Harrogate are usually next to those islands in the road.

 

 

Traffic hold up's or what

Got one just like that, just down the road from here.

 

Traffic calming I guess. :think:

 

Thanks traffic planning dept, you munters.

Edited 19 December, 201312 yr by Mr Ree

Just remembered another one you'll like.

 

Many years ago when I ran a shop, one of the local taxi drivers couldn't park in front of the shop on the zebra crossing as two of his colleagues were already doing so. 

 

So he dumped his car in the loading bay and came in to get his lunch, as putting it between two lines in the carpark was clearly beneath him.

 

While he was in the shop, The delivery showed up, and didn't have any choice (probably) than to block him in.

 

The delivery was what we used to call a 3-in-1. The back half of the wagon was refrigerated, with some insulated containers at the back with frozen goods in. So we had to unload the frozen, pull the back of the wagon down, spot the frozen into the open top freezer for the staff to start working, then pull the chilled out, get staff on that, then pull the grocery into the back, and reload the wagon with empty cages and cardboard. By the time we'd done this, with assistance from the driver, as H+S wouldn't let us use the tail lift, the driver had to clock off for a tacho before he could drive again 

 

At a couple of points during this, the taxi driver tried to give me and the wagon driver some abuse. In matching with the attitude test, as the driver was heading back to the truck, jingling his keys, I stuck my head out the door and said "Hang on mate, phone call for you"

 

The driver looked at me in a puzzled manner but came back in anyway and asked what is was.

 

"They want to know if you want another cup of tea while that ****** waits a bit longer" 

http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/19/hero-bus-driver-rushes-pregnant-woman-to-hospital-after-waiting-75-minutes-for-an-ambulance-4237196/ 

All drivers should have a flask of boiling water with them, especially in winter,

just in case of a pregnant woman needing to give birth where they are, or need rushed to hospital..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can then have a nice cup of tea while you wait for the Ambulance or a handy bus to get there.

All drivers should have a flask of boiling water with them, especially in winter,

just in case of a pregnant woman needing to give birth where they are, or need rushed to hospital..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can then have a nice cup of tea while you wait for the Ambulance or a handy bus to get there.

Well I thought is was a really nice story.

It was, lovely.