Love your vids. I’m currently getting myself ready for my first shift (a 4:30 am start) as a bus driver after finishing driving school. Just watching to get an idea of what today may bring hahaha
As a busdriver myself I feel your pain. Today I started at 5'o clock in the morning and finished short after midnoon. But it also has adventages like most of the time I can avoid traffic jams. I also do nightshifts and the following is quite rare but it happens sometimes. I am coming home around 6'o clock in the morning and go to sleep. When I wake up I have a day off but the next day I have to start at 6'o clock in the morning. Those are some hard times.
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver Because even though I think you're great sometimes I can't understand your Yorkshire accent!! But it seems the auto generated subtitles can't either :) Love your channel btw, you are so entertaining :)
Haha thank you so much for noticing, I’m honestly howling hahah 😂 I can’t understand me sometimes so don’t worry 😂 but thank you for the support Chloe 👌🏻🚌😊
Brilliant video mate. Love seeing your work vlogs do more of these. My partner work for Arriva in north wales and she does 14 hours day shifts and in the depot for around 4.15 most mornings.
No alco-locks on the buses?! Here in Sweden we're used to frosty and snowy windshields in the morning. Also, most of our shifts are early shifts. After a few days you get used to it. :)
Another great vid, FCBD! I just enjoy watching you go through your duty, and this particular vid I didn’t miss the driving bit tbh. (Sorry!) 😱 Great use of the Micky Bubble cd case too, at least he’s useful for something! 😱😛 As a fellow Yorkie through and through, (although I have emigrated to Derbyshire 😱🤫🤐😭) totally agree with you on with the soup theory! Keep up the crackin’ vids, fella. Look forward to the next instalment. 👍👍
Another nice video there Shaun. Ironically I had you driving one of the Scania's on the 232 yesterday on my way home, and you're right they are one of the better buses at Tiger! Look forward to the next video.
Nice video mate, have you looked into getting a body mount for the gopro? I have one that goes on you like a harness and then the camera is on your chest area.
I work as a late shift bus driver. Always wondered about doing something like this. Isn't there a policy prohibiting drivers from filming in the cab? Just a question is all.
You guys got employee shuttle and a personal to to help with the route we got none of that here in Honolulu it’s all on us 😭 we got lots of heat and humidity come on down lol
Do the busses on earlies need de-icing sometimes (presumably they don't get dried when washed the night before) de-icing must take some doing on a forty footer?
Shaun, come on. -2C isn't cold. In t'good old days lad, shifts started about 4-30am, you had to hope the RSF (running shift fitter) had got the battery trolley ready to jump you if he hadn't had the early buses running all night to keep them warm and then you had to get to the outer terminal to run back in at 5-15 for the 6am shift workers. And cab heaters? What were those? Lol. Interesting. You have got it so easy.
Been there done that pal, 3am starts as duty supervisor working at -6/7 at stagecoach and nothing wanting to start haha, some runs we had to run so they put the bus in the heated garage so it would definitely start and run hahah! Cab heaters!! We don’t get them hahah, we get a pipe from the demister! Sometimes it’s decent! Sometimes not so great! We do have it s lot easier now compared to the old days but that’s just how technology and equipment has become 🚦🚌👌🏻
Sorry if it’s a stupid question. If a bus has lost all its air, how do the doors open and close if you needed to? Is it just using your strength to force them? I know obviously it needs air built up to move off but if there was no air in when you first came to the vehicle and the doors are shut.
hey.. Im a bus driver in Norwich and like you i can't stand the early shifts and rather work the lates which i have done for 10 years although back in 2012 i did go back on days for a short while. I just wanted to ask what your shift and hour patterns at your depot are... here in Norfolk i notice alot of bus companies now work a 4-day work rota pattern which on one hand is great because you will mostly get off 3 days per week unless with some lines you might do a 6 or even 7 days in a row work directive but means we work a 12 hour day .. which was a shock to me at first coming from Arriva the shires which a maximum would be a spread-over of 10.4 hours but here we work like 6am-6pm or 12noon-midnight which are killers :( Many Thanks Carl
hey carl, thank you for the comment on my video. My depot have really relaxed hours and they are really good with the rest times. Other places I have worked usually operate a 5 day week. usually 7.5 to 9.5 hours a day. Hope this helps :) take care mate
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver usually the one with the best finish time, I sometimes swapped shifts with other drivers when I needed to finish early or have a later start, there were pros and cons with either shifts. I would work early one week and work lates and middle shift on alternate weeks.
Something from my past. I was based at Slatyford depot Newcastle upon Tyne for 38 years. Was a conductor for just over a year before going in the driving school. On the buses just before deregulation we had managed to get shifts that were not too long and plenty running time on service, a relaxing day on Sundays, whereas just before I left Sundays were the worst shifts to work, very tight running times, on a Sunday morning you were racing round trying to keep on time, even though there was very little traffic on the road and not many passengers to pick up, and I have heard since that it is getting a lot worse for the drivers. I was always running late, so one day I was told the depot manager wanted to see me about late running, I thought great, a chance to have my say and I did, the union man came in with me, they told me it was not a discipline and not to worry about it, the truth was I was looking forward to it, the manager asked if I was having problems with the ticket machine, I said I had no problems with it, then he asked me the question why I was always running late, so I told him it was the tight running times that was to blame, then he asked if there was any particular journey that was really bad, so I told him about one journey that was right in the middle of the rush hour, that if you left on time you could guarantee that you would be late before you finished the journey, so he looked at the running board said I was right and that it shouldn't be like that and that was the end of the interview.
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver I'll try and get some, might try to get down to look at the depot in Feb half term next week. Will have to make some phonecalls! Thanks🚌
Is it good money working on the buses, i live in greater Manchester and i'm thinking of changing jobs i just can't find working hours and hourly pay its all different
Love your vids. I’m currently getting myself ready for my first shift (a 4:30 am start) as a bus driver after finishing driving school. Just watching to get an idea of what today may bring hahaha
instaBlaster.
I gotta thank the drivers who drive the earlies 👀 especially when i finish work at 4 that 4:50am bus is a life saver 😍
As a busdriver myself I feel your pain. Today I started at 5'o clock in the morning and finished short after midnoon. But it also has adventages like most of the time I can avoid traffic jams. I also do nightshifts and the following is quite rare but it happens sometimes. I am coming home around 6'o clock in the morning and go to sleep. When I wake up I have a day off but the next day I have to start at 6'o clock in the morning. Those are some hard times.
I am a bus driver my earliest shift starts at 03.15 in the morning. it's a bus route to the airport. so 05.25 is a late morning start :-).
Ouch !! I feel your pain!
Great channel!! Ive just passed my theory, hazzard & cpc 2, start driver training in 2wks with stagecoach👍
How did it go mate?
Nice video I love it when you vlog yourself on the job. Keep up the good work! 👍
Cheers mate!🚌
Excellent video shaun and have a good week.
Love the English subtitles at 0:34 :)
I’m howling hahahahahah how did you come across that lol
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver Because even though I think you're great sometimes I can't understand your Yorkshire accent!! But it seems the auto generated subtitles can't either :)
Love your channel btw, you are so entertaining :)
Haha thank you so much for noticing, I’m honestly howling hahah 😂 I can’t understand me sometimes so don’t worry 😂 but thank you for the support Chloe 👌🏻🚌😊
Brilliant video mate. Love seeing your work vlogs do more of these. My partner work for Arriva in north wales and she does 14 hours day shifts and in the depot for around 4.15 most mornings.
Great video as always Shaun, keep up the brilliant work! :-D
Thankyou! Glad you enjoyed it mate
I’ve worked early, Middle, late and night. Late and night is enjoyable
I honestly love your videos and passion for buses:)
Thank you. Loved the video, I like it when you talk to the camera more
Great Video (Like always)
I would like to see you do a video with 362 and then do its route loop from Huddersfield to Huddersfield and then back to Depot
My earliest shift was at 330am. Loved that schedule
ouch that's so early!
More vids like this in the morning
How do sir.. I'm a bus driver in Manchester for MCT.. I love your videos man. Keep it up dude.
I work in a tesco warehouse and we also get a Friday - Monday long weekend
Great video as usual mate, totally agree with you on your opinion of the Scania Omnilinks, but then I am a big Scania fan
I like our volvos (well the transdev ones)
4:02 teasting the bells best bit of the job :)
Lovely!! My favourite buses are Scanias really smooth 👌👌
Volvo ☺
No alco-locks on the buses?! Here in Sweden we're used to frosty and snowy windshields in the morning. Also, most of our shifts are early shifts. After a few days you get used to it. :)
Are you working on another on of these?If so YAY!!!
Oofftt! Know the feeling because I'm not a good early riser either. Loved 4:25 to 4:33, very funny! Brilliant video mate! :-)
No I’m definitely not a morning person😂, Thankyou pal! Glad you liked it!
I think you should do another of these now with lockdown to show us how it works.
Great video Shaun and I really enjoy your day in the life of a bus driver videos.
Thankyou very much glad you like them!🚌
Another great vid, FCBD! I just enjoy watching you go through your duty, and this particular vid I didn’t miss the driving bit tbh. (Sorry!) 😱
Great use of the Micky Bubble cd case too, at least he’s useful for something! 😱😛
As a fellow Yorkie through and through, (although I have emigrated to Derbyshire 😱🤫🤐😭) totally agree with you on with the soup theory!
Keep up the crackin’ vids, fella. Look forward to the next instalment. 👍👍
Another nice video there Shaun. Ironically I had you driving one of the Scania's on the 232 yesterday on my way home, and you're right they are one of the better buses at Tiger! Look forward to the next video.
love your videos! recently joined *ehem* First Halifax and am really looking forward to it!
Thats great! Hope you enjoy it 🚌
For my brekky when it’s cold I get a cinnamon roll and a tea from greggs 👌
Good video mate i mostly do earlies or middles but im on my first late tonight looking forward to it :) p.s nice gloves i have the same ones
Hope you enjoy it pal! I prefer doing lates 🚌
Cd cover ice scraper .. I’ve done that on an early one ..
Nice video mate, have you looked into getting a body mount for the gopro? I have one that goes on you like a harness and then the camera is on your chest area.
I have one mate, just not keen on the angle for cab camera videos thankyou for the advice though! Hope you’re having a good weekend!🚌
Great vlogs Sean. Learnt a lot of hack tips there. I work silly hours messes me up going from days to nights.
Great video Shaun as always
Cheers pal!🚌
Ur most welcome
Amazing videos love it keep it up good for people to say what life like as a driver
Cheers mate glad you like them! 🚌
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver best driver in Yorkshire lol
I work as a late shift bus driver. Always wondered about doing something like this. Isn't there a policy prohibiting drivers from filming in the cab? Just a question is all.
also, that garage your at ? was what used to be the yorkshire traction garage just outside hudds, on the wakefield/barnsley road junction ?
Is that one of the earliest starts that they have on a Saturday at Waterloo Depot?
I work at arriva and I've never even seen or heard of them fingerless gloves haha
Looks like Yorkshire Tiger have got them all lol ;-)
The size if the Alexander Dennis makes me wanna cry on 148 when it’s really busy I might aswell staple a chair to ruff 😂
Great video pal. 👍
You guys got employee shuttle and a personal to to help with the route we got none of that here in Honolulu it’s all on us 😭 we got lots of heat and humidity come on down lol
Do the busses on earlies need de-icing sometimes (presumably they don't get dried when washed the night before) de-icing must take some doing on a forty footer?
Loved the little edit when you didn’t have cab footage 😂👌
did 722 go to the bus yard in the sky
stay safe shaun
Uses a Michael bubble cd to scape the car, good job
This video is realy good do some more in the morning
4.30 🤣🤣🤣 mad me laugh so much
Glad you like it mate 😂🚌
Is that a plaxton profile for first part of you’re shift
I Know you are tight in Yorkshire. But OMG buy a scraper 🤣
To the frost scraper: "I just haven't met you yet"
Shaun, come on. -2C isn't cold. In t'good old days lad, shifts started about 4-30am, you had to hope the RSF (running shift fitter) had got the battery trolley ready to jump you if he hadn't had the early buses running all night to keep them warm and then you had to get to the outer terminal to run back in at 5-15 for the 6am shift workers. And cab heaters? What were those? Lol. Interesting. You have got it so easy.
Been there done that pal, 3am starts as duty supervisor working at -6/7 at stagecoach and nothing wanting to start haha, some runs we had to run so they put the bus in the heated garage so it would definitely start and run hahah! Cab heaters!! We don’t get them hahah, we get a pipe from the demister! Sometimes it’s decent! Sometimes not so great!
We do have it s lot easier now compared to the old days but that’s just how technology and equipment has become 🚦🚌👌🏻
Love your videos
Dose Yorkshire tiger only have one double decker?
XZPRO88 Waterloo depot have 3, not sure about the others
Transport Addict yeah 😂
You guys have a capo chino machine!??? We don’t have that lol!!
Sorry if it’s a stupid question. If a bus has lost all its air, how do the doors open and close if you needed to? Is it just using your strength to force them? I know obviously it needs air built up to move off but if there was no air in when you first came to the vehicle and the doors are shut.
They just push open, they can be a pain to first ‘pop’ but soon as they do then they are just ‘loose’ to open and shut until the air is built back up
When you go on your break is there a driver change over
Hi Shaun great video what is your work life balance regarding going on holiday and stuff
Early start, early finish.
Where can I get the arriva fingerless gloves because I really really really want them
Nice my favourite bus is the optare
There still not that first use check vid
-2 cold. Come to Winnipeg then you will know cold
Easy life! 😂 Our early start is 5.00. Finish at 3.00 and... the vending machine drinks in the Bus Station are 40p. 🚌
Really? I prefer my late shifts😂
Working 10 hours a day which means more money. Not that bad
The majority of our lates are 2/3pm till 12/1am so it’s the same really 🙂
Good job brooo! 🙋🙋🙋🇮🇩
25p? I remember when vending machine coffee was 12p per cup.
hey.. Im a bus driver in Norwich and like you i can't stand the early shifts and rather work the lates which i have done for 10 years although back in 2012 i did go back on days for a short while. I just wanted to ask what your shift and hour patterns at your depot are... here in Norfolk i notice alot of bus companies now work a 4-day work rota pattern which on one hand is great because you will mostly get off 3 days per week unless with some lines you might do a 6 or even 7 days in a row work directive but means we work a 12 hour day .. which was a shock to me at first coming from Arriva the shires which a maximum would be a spread-over of 10.4 hours but here we work like 6am-6pm or 12noon-midnight which are killers :(
Many Thanks Carl
hey carl, thank you for the comment on my video. My depot have really relaxed hours and they are really good with the rest times. Other places I have worked usually operate a 5 day week. usually 7.5 to 9.5 hours a day.
Hope this helps :) take care mate
Does having your bus licence make your car insurance any cheaper?
My earliest shift was 330am. 3 days a week
Ouch, thats a killer 😭😭
are you missing a rear view mirror in your car ?
Is it inevitable doing the early shifts or you can avoid it if you don't like it ?
Great vid
I drove buses for 37 years on all types of shifts, early, middle and lates.
what did you prefer?
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver usually the one with the best finish time, I sometimes swapped shifts with other drivers when I needed to finish early or have a later start, there were pros and cons with either shifts. I would work early one week and work lates and middle shift on alternate weeks.
Something from my past.
I was based at Slatyford depot Newcastle upon Tyne for 38 years.
Was a conductor for just over a year before going in the driving school.
On the buses just before deregulation we had managed to get shifts that were not too long and plenty running time on service, a relaxing day on Sundays, whereas just before I left Sundays were the worst shifts to work, very tight running times, on a Sunday morning you were racing round trying to keep on time, even though there was very little traffic on the road and not many passengers to pick up, and I have heard since that it is getting a lot worse for the drivers.
I was always running late, so one day I was told the depot manager wanted to see me about late running, I thought great, a chance to have my say and I did, the union man came in with me, they told me it was not a discipline and not to worry about it, the truth was I was looking forward to it, the manager asked if I was having problems with the ticket machine, I said I had no problems with it, then he asked me the question why I was always running late, so I told him it was the tight running times that was to blame, then he asked if there was any particular journey that was really bad, so I told him about one journey that was right in the middle of the rush hour, that if you left on time you could guarantee that you would be late before you finished the journey, so he looked at the running board said I was right and that it shouldn't be like that and that was the end of the interview.
When is this first user check video coming out because it says in the video coming soon
Soon matey! Just got to edit it :)
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver thanks your the best
Where can I find your internal check video ?
It will be up soon mate :)
I've been in -20 degrees Celsius
Am not really understand why you always change but what happens with your first bus
Sos to ask again mate if you do a morning run could you do c39. you don't have to record
Conor’s Trains do yorkshirectiger do the C39 mate?
Conor’s Trains is have to be allocated to do it mate, unfortunately I can’t pick :(
Do you ever get to drive double deckers
The money that you get from the people on the rote does it goes into your paycheck?
Good video
Could you not fix the gopro to the back of the dash?
You should of stuck the go pro behind you
comm_2v8 YT there is no where to stick it :(
I get my shopping online also from Tesco Asda or Sainsbury’s. Very posh me 😂🤣
Oooo very posh!😂
The Flat Cap Bus Driver 😂🤣😂🤣
You need to but a Ford. Heated windscreen ftw.
Aw some video thank you
Good video without cab footage
Nice video, do you have any spare gloves?!
No sorry we’re only given one pair each 🚌
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver I'll try and get some, might try to get down to look at the depot in Feb half term next week. Will have to make some phonecalls! Thanks🚌
Bit ususal name Waterloo depot send like it one of bus London.
762 Is Arriva North East
the most dangerous single deck bus I ever drove was the LEYLAND NATIONAL.
Which shifts are busier early or lates??
Lates
Is it good money working on the buses, i live in greater Manchester and i'm thinking of changing jobs i just can't find working hours and hourly pay its all different
raz1980 message me on Facebook or instagram buddy, I’ll explain it there :-)
@@TheFlatCapBusDriver Sorry i don't do either of those, but it's all good i'll find out on friday i've got an assessment at stagecoach
Shame u don't work the 757 routes
Get a can of de-icer Shaun Pal 😂😡🤣
I need to mate, not prepared for this cold weather!😂
Scania are fast 🚌💨
Imagine living life through a lense, John carpenters, they live, educate yourselves 👍🏻
Are the buses warm?
at 5am they are freezing but about 30 mins in they are lovely and toasty!