Sullivan Buses iBus

[Red Dragon]

Sullivans are advertising for an iBus controller:

We are creating an iBus office at South Mimms and need someone to staff it. The job holder(s) would work one of two shifts on a Mon-Sun basis (5 day week) between the hours of 06:00 – 22:00. Experience and good people skills preferable. The suitable candidate(s) would handle TfL, LUL Rail, and commercial services.

If they are just creating it now, how were the 298 and the school routes controlled?

[snoggle]

Jan 8, 2017 11:52:33 GMT Red Dragon said:

Sullivans are advertising for an iBus controller:

We are creating an iBus office at South Mimms and need someone to staff it. The job holder(s) would work one of two shifts on a Mon-Sun basis (5 day week) between the hours of 06:00 – 22:00. Experience and good people skills preferable. The suitable candidate(s) would handle TfL, LUL Rail, and commercial services.

If they are just creating it now, how were the 298 and the school routes controlled?

Possibly a shared responsibility amongst other duties at present with responsibility on the drivers to keep to time? As the scale of activity is due to build up considerably then I can see why a dedicated role is being established. The risk of delays is greater across three routes and the 217 is high frequency which, in theory, needs a different management approach to low frequency routes (298 and W9 plus schools).

[capitalomnibus]

Jan 8, 2017 11:52:33 GMT Red Dragon said:

Sullivans are advertising for an iBus controller:

We are creating an iBus office at South Mimms and need someone to staff it. The job holder(s) would work one of two shifts on a Mon-Sun basis (5 day week) between the hours of 06:00 – 22:00. Experience and good people skills preferable. The suitable candidate(s) would handle TfL, LUL Rail, and commercial services.

If they are just creating it now, how were the 298 and the school routes controlled?

They have had that on LOTS for a few weeks now.

[eggmiester]

They probably had a supervisor manning the front counter who also looked after the ibus but as others have said their TFL portfolio is growing so will require a dedicated team of controllers to manage the routes during the busiest times and keep the current arrangements for 'out if hours' cover.

Metrobus have a similar thing. Because the Metrobus's ibus is still separate from GAL and they only run 1 night route at present (N119) they have a separate night cover controller who is based at Croydon who from midnight takes control of both C and MB routes until 5am. They also share this role, with managing the front desk at C garage through the night until the first allocation supervisor arrives in the morning.