I used to love going on the bus as a child. My nan used to get us day tickets and we spent an entire day bus hopping. Today it was just me and the driver on a bus and he told me how he got in to bus driving, later when we got to my stop it was still just me and him so I gave him a voucher for McDonald’s, £2.99 selected burger and fries. He beeped and waved at me as he drove off. It was nice.
Excellent video. Takes me back to when I grew up in Langley in the 1960's. Drake Avenue was our stop. The 81, 484, 704, 705 and Reading 'B'. Hardly recognised Slough!
Unless it’s London or any other part of the UK that still uses roller blinds for a majority of their buses in which case ensuring the destination lights are actually on during night or low light hours
some routes are pretty simple. a lot of the routes where i live (NYC) stay on 1 road, while others make a lot of turns down side streets and thru neighborhoods and industrial areas.
@@Willowdog1234 actually not true, once qualified and arrive at New depot, they are assigned to a mentor and stay with them until they are competent at all routes etc
I use one every day. The Ticketer machine does an awful lot. You log on, type in the busses running board for the day if you're the first using that bus for the day, and it will give a list of all the runs on that board, and you select the first one, which will be a dead run to your starting point. Once you do that, you end the trip, select the first in-service run, and then it will give you all of the ticket options, as you would expect. However, it also has GPS and can warn you about low bridges (I assume this has to be configured), it can print details in the event of an incident, such as a bump, crash, passenger fall, etc. Also, your traffic office can send messages to drivers using it. It's a really cool system, and really makes the ticket side of the job easy.
E400 MMC. You can tell based on the position of the wipers. 200s have theres mounted at the bottom of the windscreen (superior imo) and 400s have them mounted at the top.
@@TheTransportUA-camr yh if they are set to eco in the eco life gearbox....I drove so many that get confused and struggle change up a gear only to change back down and struggle again and repeat Especially NXWM ones were the worst
Call that driving😂that’s a steering-wheel attendant. Driving was in a manual transmission bus like a lodekka: then you knew you’d done a days work and achieved job satisfaction 🎉
You came through the parked cars on left pretty quick. Heard if there aren't cars on opposite side you got to slow you speed down 2mph or 3mph less down to 5mph if you safely can and be ready to slow down more and stop for opposite side when timing is right with oncoming traffic. If there are cars oncoming down in opposite lane then you got to give way by keeping least bus length far back distance behind vehicle parked in front of you and positioned front offside over 2 metres cross line horizontally not to be too close when pulling out from car in front of you and signalling you intentions to oncoming traffic behind you. Mainly slow down or stop if necessary for cars on opposite side to pass even includes when passed cars on you side then meeting oncoming cars between you and parked cars. Lot of bus drivers pick up bad habits, often sometimes far greater than other drivers. I doing my PCV bus test and haven't passed just yet until test day but l know the drill far more clearly than driving my own personal car.
@@ShadowzTheHuskya lot of companies wouldn't want their drivers putting out videos as the company has no control over whether it's a good/bad representation of the company. All public-facing jobs I've had are very strict on social media posts, especially filming. With that said, I don't care whether this individual got permission or not, I just hope they didn't put themselves at risk of reprecussion.
@@JudgementalHand Seems like a good representation of a company but seeing this video alone, Gave me the motivation to become a bus driver just last week, I wouldn't have done if this video didn't exist, Instead the transport industry just gained one more driver, All because a driver posted a video of him working, Company's should be more involved but most sadly wont bother, So I salute this driver for giving people hope.
Every REAL bus driver knows double deckers is the easiest form of a bus to drive and single deckers have more of a back tail swing and are usually slightly longer in length
@@DaHardest757yeah but this isn’t a 24 or 27 it’s a minibus sized bus. Like a Mercedes van type bus 🤣🤣🤣 now a 24 40foot long bus is even more terrifying your right there .. but the one he’s driving look at the cab, this has about 16 seats
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I used to love going on the bus as a child. My nan used to get us day tickets and we spent an entire day bus hopping.
Today it was just me and the driver on a bus and he told me how he got in to bus driving, later when we got to my stop it was still just me and him so I gave him a voucher for McDonald’s, £2.99 selected burger and fries.
He beeped and waved at me as he drove off. It was nice.
Excellent video. Takes me back to when I grew up in Langley in the 1960's. Drake Avenue was our stop. The 81, 484, 704, 705 and Reading 'B'. Hardly recognised Slough!
Yay! Slough and Langley where I grew up in the 60s!!
nice ZF Enviro ❤ woohoo my dream job
I like the Ticketer machine.
A lot more wheel turning than in a car
Fr
Because the wheel is heavier
@@Henry1_3not really, there's a bigger turning circle on a bus than a car.
@@Henry1_3not at all the steering is as light as any car it’s just geared differently so it’s more controllable at high speed
22:00 i like how on the background was a women speaking Romanian
Romanians in the UK ?! Nooo, i don't think they are :)))
Thanks for sharing, very insightful.
Nice, starting in Slough.
I love buses
Me too
You don't need to ensure the destination sign is lit its not the 80s, destination signs are lit all day and night as they are now digital
Unless it’s London or any other part of the UK that still uses roller blinds for a majority of their buses in which case ensuring the destination lights are actually on during night or low light hours
i always assumed bus drivers had some sort of a satnav of there route to take ....
It's weird seeing a place that I know of, wow lol
were you doing route 702 from slough
btw u passed my school at 4:18 look on the right
We aren't allowed to operate Ticketer whilst driving
I like it
I have always wondered how a new bus driver would go about learning the routes? Would they have a sat nav, I guess so. idk
They dont have a sat nav they just have a day or 2 just riding around on buses to learn the routes
some routes are pretty simple. a lot of the routes where i live (NYC) stay on 1 road, while others make a lot of turns down side streets and thru neighborhoods and industrial areas.
@@Willowdog1234 actually not true, once qualified and arrive at New depot, they are assigned to a mentor and stay with them until they are competent at all routes etc
@@843Reboot we are talking about thr uk tho
No they learn
where was this filmed?
is it an adl e400mmc?
Yes
Man if rode the line as much as you are, I'd get fired. Already got called in on once because I went over the line for 2 seconds.
How can you not ride the line? You ride the line or you ride the pavement?????
@@MijasWatchesYT I drive large vehicles for a living, I ride for the most part in the center of the lane.
@@StalloneSiciliano seem difficult to keep that up, especially with English lanes.
@MijasWatchesYT I've driven on roads similar to that road and I've managed to keep it centered
@@StalloneSiciliano fair enough, I’ll be driving buses soon myself and I must say it’s gonna be scary af
Great video
What do you have to do on that touchscreen tablet thing?
That's the ticket machine. Touch screen options and contact less card and QR code reader facing the passenger
I use one every day.
The Ticketer machine does an awful lot.
You log on, type in the busses running board for the day if you're the first using that bus for the day, and it will give a list of all the runs on that board, and you select the first one, which will be a dead run to your starting point.
Once you do that, you end the trip, select the first in-service run, and then it will give you all of the ticket options, as you would expect.
However, it also has GPS and can warn you about low bridges (I assume this has to be configured), it can print details in the event of an incident, such as a bump, crash, passenger fall, etc.
Also, your traffic office can send messages to drivers using it.
It's a really cool system, and really makes the ticket side of the job easy.
Is this an Enviro 200 MMC?
E400 MMC. You can tell based on the position of the wipers. 200s have theres mounted at the bottom of the windscreen (superior imo) and 400s have them mounted at the top.
@@ohnolookwho241oh yeah, you can also see the top deck in the shadows which I really should have noticed.
Lucky to have a zf mmc
No no, these ZF MMCs are painfully slow, see my recording of 301. Voith is bad yes but ZF 400s shift wayy to early and just struggle on the next gear
@@TheTransportUA-camr yh if they are set to eco in the eco life gearbox....I drove so many that get confused and struggle change up a gear only to change back down and struggle again and repeat
Especially NXWM ones were the worst
@@-M0LE Our ones are set to Eco except for 307.
I thought NXWM ones were rockets??? Am i incorrect?
@@TheTransportUA-camr not the mmcs or 13 plates but 61 plates were and ofc the tridents were
What company?
Thames Valley Buses
On a real ting yea my guy drops man off at farmfoods and acshooe ually respektnuf
what uk bus was he driving?
Enviro 400
He was driving an ADL Enviro 400MMC
Alexander Dennis adl enviro 400
Nice sub count
Call that driving😂that’s a steering-wheel attendant. Driving was in a manual transmission bus like a lodekka: then you knew you’d done a days work and achieved job satisfaction 🎉
You came through the parked cars on left pretty quick. Heard if there aren't cars on opposite side you got to slow you speed down 2mph or 3mph less down to 5mph if you safely can and be ready to slow down more and stop for opposite side when timing is right with oncoming traffic. If there are cars oncoming down in opposite lane then you got to give way by keeping least bus length far back distance behind vehicle parked in front of you and positioned front offside over 2 metres cross line horizontally not to be too close when pulling out from car in front of you and signalling you intentions to oncoming traffic behind you. Mainly slow down or stop if necessary for cars on opposite side to pass even includes when passed cars on you side then meeting oncoming cars between you and parked cars. Lot of bus drivers pick up bad habits, often sometimes far greater than other drivers. I doing my PCV bus test and haven't passed just yet until test day but l know the drill far more clearly than driving my own personal car.
Be interesting to see if the relevant bus company etc gave permission for this to be filmed
You'd find that interesting? Consider improving yourself.
@JoyoSnooze that was unnecessary why don't you improve on being nicer to people?
Why would they need permission?
@@ShadowzTheHuskya lot of companies wouldn't want their drivers putting out videos as the company has no control over whether it's a good/bad representation of the company.
All public-facing jobs I've had are very strict on social media posts, especially filming.
With that said, I don't care whether this individual got permission or not, I just hope they didn't put themselves at risk of reprecussion.
@@JudgementalHand Seems like a good representation of a company but seeing this video alone, Gave me the motivation to become a bus driver just last week, I wouldn't have done if this video didn't exist, Instead the transport industry just gained one more driver, All because a driver posted a video of him working, Company's should be more involved but most sadly wont bother, So I salute this driver for giving people hope.
This is a tiny bus though no where near as terrifying as a decker
Every REAL bus driver knows double deckers is the easiest form of a bus to drive and single deckers have more of a back tail swing and are usually slightly longer in length
@@DaHardest757yeah but this isn’t a 24 or 27 it’s a minibus sized bus. Like a Mercedes van type bus 🤣🤣🤣 now a 24 40foot long bus is even more terrifying your right there .. but the one he’s driving look at the cab, this has about 16 seats
@@petercoyne8300 oooh loool only just realised yeah yur right ahaha
@@petercoyne8300 am back on the buses tomorrow morning wish I could do my own recordings but we have a no filming policy kinda sucks
@@DaHardest757 yeah Im sure we do too 🤣🤣🤣 iv not asked though to be honest
Black man drives bus
Meaning what
@@Paulmcknockiter81 black man drives bus means black man drives bus doh
Racist
@@JackT21 I certainly am not, Yid boy
Stating the obvious, why?