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Post by moz on Nov 12, 2013 18:57:20 GMT
I'd be interested to know what agreements exist at the various companies as regards type training and route learning time limits and also how strictly they are adhered to. At Arriva London South it is six months for both, so if you don't drive a type of bus or route for that period you need to be retrained according to our agreement. I only bring this up as I am, as of today, fully retrained on VLAs (boo!) following a little ruck with the engineers!
Moz
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Post by guybowden on Nov 12, 2013 19:28:16 GMT
At Go-Ahead London Central we get a paper booklet with a picture of the dash board and what each button/light does and some of the simple fault lights. We get talked through the controls of the bus and a walk around talk then about a 45 minute drive of the bus.
As for route learning we are given some paper to make notes and told to do a rounder or two on the route and then when we are with our mentor we drive the route and they show/tell us where the turns are etc etc.
Turning back the clock quite a few years. The man who was either number 1 or number 2 at London Country when it first separated from LT tired to argue with the unions that as professional drivers, bus drivers didn't need to be regularly trained on the different buses. I don't know how successful he was at it because I can't remember the whole story!
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Post by M1104 on Nov 12, 2013 21:26:11 GMT
When I was at London General I remember it as being six months before re-route learning and two years before re-type training. This was back in the 90s mind you.
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Post by eggmiester on Nov 16, 2013 2:45:47 GMT
When I was at London General I remember it as being six months before re-route learning and two years before re-type training. This was back in the 90s mind you. That effectively still stands as the rule at Go-ahead (LC and LG), although drivers are able to 'waiver' the rule if they wish. I know for a fact the allocation system will flag up if a driver ahs not driven a route for more then 6 months, happened with me when I worked an N21 duty as a swap with a night driver who needed a day job not too long ago, the computer flagged it up and the allocation supervisor had to ask if I was ok with the route still and then actioned it on the allocation system. |
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Post by M1104 on Nov 16, 2013 12:09:23 GMT
We had something similar at BB where the firm decided to play busical chairs and standardise the mixed allocation of midi buses (all MRLs to AL, all DRs to AF and all MAs to BB). After a good while BB got some MRLs back, releasing the MAs to pastures new. There was at least one driver saying that he will not drive any MRLs before retraining.
I can't remember if the MRLs were absent from BB for more than two years, but it could be that he was dedicated to driving the 295, which then used DRLs.
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