Double Decker Driving School - Episode 5
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Double Decker Driving School - Episode 5
This time, former traffic warden Alvin de Guzman is a father of three who came to the UK from the Philippines and faces a battle to get to grips with the English language as well as the double-decker buses he is learning to drive.
He says: “It’s not easy because I’m driving a bus, and I’m taking instruction as well, so that’s making it more difficult for me. Hopefully at the end of the day I’ll get it.”
But his instructors are concerned that he’s not learning fast enough. On his first drive with instructor Mickey Welch he almost hits another bus, and he doesn’t seem to understand how. Now he has to prove his ability by passing a crucial progress check in order to be put forward for his test.
Michelle Sandy gave up a 25-year career at a supermarket chain to pursue her dream of becoming a double decker driver. Before Michelle can sit behind the wheel of a double decker she first has to prove she can handle driving a white van around the streets of London.
She says of her ambition: “I quite like the thought of driving one of those. I like the thought of that. I resigned from my other job… I would love to be a bus driver it’s something that appeals to me.”
But at just 5ft tall, Michelle is worried she won’t be able to reach the pedals. Her first drive around the bus yard is brought to a sudden halt as her height becomes an issue.
Nadine Bourne has a law degree, but wants to become a bus driver rather than a solicitor. As a busy mum of two young children, she thinks qualifying will allow her to dedicate more time to her family.
She says: “It’s hard times - you need to do what you have to do to provide for your family. The job offers flexibility which I wouldn’t be able to get in a law firm. I’ve made a sacrifice for my children, that’s more rewarding for me.”
But Nadine’s first progress check ends in tears when she almost hits a white van. She says: “I’m not perfect but I do try to do my best and when that doesn’t happen I take that very hard.”
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Good instructor that Mickey Welsh, not arrogant, and down to earth.
He is and the Indian guy as well
OMG IM ADDICTED TO THIS SHOW HAHA!~
BRIANd she
BRIANd same
BRIANd same
BRIANd same😂 I'm thinking of being a bus driver for stage coach now just by watching this show and I'm only 13😂😂
BRIANd
As a former single decker driver of 4 years I find this program strangely addictive.
I'm doing a medical this Thursday then starting my training and same 😅😂
Lol I have to study but now I'm addicted to this serie...😂😂😂
I like Alvin's driving that changed from driving too fast. And being a qualified bus driver must have made him be so proud.
David W just because he got mick who seems a much better instructor than bob. I like how they hide the fact by saying they changed instructors due to "busy schedules" haha.
I noticed it too Daniel,tact is sometimes best
5:52 so u working for the co op a big cooperation and then you work a lower level slavery job bus driving wtf
@@princealmighty5391 wot m8?!
"only friends you got on the road out here are other bus drivers"
True. The rest are a bunch of horn-happy muppets.
pjc 73 Insert Kermit the frog voice
5:52 so u working for the co op a big cooperation and then you work a lower level slavery job bus driving wtf
Loving the ska and reggae music in this series.
I Watched this November last year before I started Driving school & I am now a month in to driving all manner of Buses independently. So watching it again after I could get the emotions & stress levels they were under.
How are u doing nowv
BANTERING LIKE A BUS DRIVER!
Passenger: Is there space upstairs?
Alvin: A few, yeah.
EPIC BANTZ!!!
Alvin "Numbnuts, that's a special one" lol
Mickey Welch is a very good instructor. He took me out a few years ago, when I went to Arriva from National Express coaches. (Good company) he had the respect to treat me like a 52 year old man and the professionalism to tell me what I need to do different. Started there, done my training day was sent to garage. On that particular Monday I had to take my wife to hospital as an emergency case as she had a fluid leak from her brain. I didn't get an ounce of sympathy from my garage manger. That finished before it started. I think it is a brutal industry considering all of the responsibilities that you have. I actually like the job though if not Arriva. Maybe I caught the on an off day, there are some good people there including Micky
The driving assessment in the van is not only to check your driving skills, it is also there to check your listening and learning skills. If you can't listen to the instructor and learn from what they say, you will never get through.
My man gave up law for driving a bus 😂
You realise how stressful a law job is? Also she did it for her children due to the flexibility
Mickey Welsh is a great instructor. Calm, assured and with a personality that can put trainees at ease, yet still getting the message across. No disrespect to Bob but I really don’t think Alvin would have got to his test and passed had he remained his instructor.
15:00, I did the same when I first experienced Air Brakes in a Fire Engine whilst on an experience day where you pay to drive busses, trucks and coaches and stuff round private yards.
Me too!
Misplaced Kiwi this was in an Essex Dennis RS G80WWC
I hope I've got the guts to take the bus driver license. This show is the show that made me feel like I could do it
Paulo Gianolio and honestly, law degree?? But she struggles... sooo my point is that every job is not cut out for everyone... I drive a bus here in Vegas, but didn’t finish college...there is a job for everybody, but driving a bus is waaaay different.
Hope you done it, its really not bad at all, i don't know why some companies do separate Double Decker training, apart from the height and weight there is no difference from other buses, as long as you take this into account you are sorted, good luck
Your dream is there! So you dont want to do mistake!
~alvin
Bill mays I’m billy Mays here with get god at bus driving
"The only friends you've got out here,are bus drivers" that made me laugh,I don't think so
When I went for my driving assessment for buses 10 years ago the company I work for had an old beat up Mercedes minibus they used for training, it was a brute to drive! Certainly showed if you were any good lol
OMG I HAVE SEEN ALVIN BEFORE SO MANY TIMES AS 279 IS MY LOCAL ROUTE!!!!
TransportForSamuel mannn u lucky
Why does the narrator always emphasize that it's a *double* decker, he's like "before they're allowed anywhere near a Dabbul dekkah"
Becuz thats how they pronounce it lol.
Because they're cockneys.
TransportAndOthersByRyan Common people really lol
LOL
Thats a Cockney accent lol
Mick is a great instructor
I drive school bus, full 40 foot bus and I always wanted to give a double decker a try! I think it'd be fun and a whole other level!
Quite literally
@@bobwalsh3751 It really is an exilliarating experience. I passed by bus driving test about a year and four months ago. Started on the single deck buses, and now drive the double deckers. They are so much fun to drive . Once you get used to the size and dimensions of the bus, it feels like driving a car.
@@stephenosun745 GOD it seems fun but also kinda daunting
How the hell do you run into a curb on a van???
"Num Nuts!" I love it! XD
I can imagine whats going on the instructors heads and the conversations between themselves. This series is a mockery of professional driving
alvins face when he passed!!!🥺♥️
bran it was so cute I wanted to hug him
Imagine those trainees in a bendy bus😂
Kadir_slt, metrosimulator123 um When the buses were kind of discontinued
I’m obsessed with this series😅
Guys I saw Alvin today
London
Lispy Joe how do you know that?
It's just a guess, was I correct? /s
OMG HOW
Yes. He works at Enfield garage.
ha ha..."due to busy schedules" a tactful term to use
I'm playing this series the whole way through...
Think I'll stick with the good old rigid truck 🤣🤣
I don't know about double deckers but I drive 40ft single deckers for 4 years and despite being longer they're much easier to drive than a truck.
I love your video .I have a dream to become the London Bus driver.
If alvin passed every one should pass.
Maybe he’s just a better driver than others
It all depends on luck tbh.
probably end up driving some chipmunks
Thanks for spoiling it idiot
Hello, from 2020 just a quick heads up. This year is full of bullsh** and there’s a virus called COVID-19 that’s ruining everything. Brace yourselves, chaps! And about this show, I love it lol! I’m currently working on getting my CDL (commercial driver’s license) to drive 18 wheelers and I must say that driving a 35k lbs vehicle is no joke! I hope in this year 2020 these brothers and sisters are doing well in their careers!
8:40 the way you can hear the other guys on the bus laughing 😂😂
Been doing this over a month now in Ireland didn't have to do the white van stuff unlike uk hopped straight into a single decker biggest struggle initially then after around 2 weeks got the hang of it all and getting better. Well prepared for time I get into a double deck with the shorter wheel base hopefully
Terrific instructors .
I’m happy two for you Alvin 🎉❤
Pmsl when Nadine told Bob to sit down XD
Congratulations to my Filipino brethren! Good luck sayo brad!
Mick is just the best !! this accent ^^
"Like Jesus. You have a lot of followers." Ok THAT was funny.
"Adrenaline does have a smell" omg jokes!
9.15 as a Lerner driver myself people who have passed there test will do anything to avoid Lerner drivers of any kind
We bus drivers are invisible... nobody , NOBODY wants to be stuck behind a bus or truck, or anything that might hinder their ability to get to where they’re going to be five minutes late.
Pablo Cruise yeah but the point is to not worry about what they think and more worring about safety
Good job the Rastafarian dude had that hat to soften the blow from the windscreen.
Farendor ye safety first
Haha
24 yrs in the industry , believe me the standard of bus driving in London is embarrassing.
Love love love this show !
21:03 mins - is that Steve Martin's doppelganger?!
Nadine " I don't know how in a big green bus I'm invisible"
Me "you should try riding a motorbike love.."
At 15:00 I expected to be thrown against the wall of my room.
Same
So at Arriva they stick you in a van to see if you're worthy?! At Metroline when I started they stuck me in a Nissan Note! 😳🤷🏾♂️😆🤣
Ngl I love to be a driver tbh 👌 just love the idea of driving around daily
3 years on...did you do it?
@@TV-lj3yl another 8 months on…
if I drove one of those then they would be on the emergency handbrake 24/7
Muy bueno la verdad hay que tener los nervios de acero y estar muy tranquilo, soy conductor cobrador de bus urbano hace nueve años en Punta del Este, Uruguay si sabre. Un abrazo desde aquí.
And here's me cant pass my maths test before I get the chance to drive lol
Do these examiners not realise that by going up the curb is showing initiative by the trainees as they are taking shortcuts which will help them keep to their schedule.
Great video
Good they write "L" and "R" and the dash, in case you forget which way the wheel turns...
I love seeing women driving motorcycle,Cars, Vans, Bus, etc.. isn't it just lovely how they prove that they can also do anything that a man can do..
but we do it better...ner ner
It's just a shame that the pay is absolutely s*** in the Northeast for bus driving
Cheaper to live up there tho
I saw Michelle on the 468 the other day
How Alvin just bounced off the curb at 40 MPH.
15:00 omg hope she ok 👌 and also the driving instructor x
Am glad Alvin passed he seem a friendly guy didn't back chat once
Women gave up studying law to be a bus driver 😂
5:09 "WATCH THAT NEAR SIDE" XD
LOL
Gave up law to become a bus driver? Ahahahahaha BS
Considering she says dis and dat, it's not surprising she game up law.
StealthElectronVIP no. She gave it up because apparently bus driving offers flexibility. Which is the BS I'm referring too. It's anything but! You're social life basically dies. The rotas are NOT family friendly at all! No way would bus driving hours be less un sociable than a lawyer. That's why bus driving has such a high turnover rate. They never stop recruiting because they lose staff as fast as they recruit. If the awful hours won't get you. The passengers will. Or other road users. Or controllers. Or management...the list of folk out to get you is endless tbh
She didn't say she was a lawyer, she said she we worked at a law firm. Besides if she was a lawyer and she didn't like it, what's wrong with that ?
To be fair law is fucking boring.
It's not BS. Most of the time law grads (I'm one too), we work at Maccas. Considering driving a double decker right now.
i've never heard of a basss jriva
my favroute type of transport is a bus.
At 3:34, the answer to the speed of passing through a 3 inch gap is 3 miles per hour.
Rezlynx, Thank fuck you are here, otherwise my troglodyte brain wouldn't be able to work that out.
Not english here. What's the co-op?
A small convenience store but it's a national company
Driving a bus in London is crazy any way..
Did you notice Dave coming out of that bus at 13:38
Yeah... If they can't even drive a Ford Transit Van they shouldn't be driving a bus.
I love this video 😂😂
8:36 onwards lol!!!
“Given up studying law to become a busdriver” i.e. Did not make it into uni and its her last hope to get out of unemployment
Probably
5:09
“No one pressed the bell” - the IBus litterally says ‘Bus Stopping’
But the driver cannot see that!
Misplaced Kiwi The driver has a display on his dashboard, which includes a bell symbol that lights up when a passengers presses the stop bell. He ahould have also heard the ding...
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One thing I will say is the white van man and the way people drive on Londons roads are absolutely shocking. Such a nervous rushed place is London
Imagine articulated bus driving school
It's when you're doing 20 on a 20 road and they still overtake that's baffling
what are some things i should know before the training give me some examples and some people that have experience driving ? So they can give me more info ?
Advice ? Don't be 'cocky' ( i.e.arrogant ) and don't worry about nerves - we ALL have them ! i passed my PCV first time, and can honestly say i enjoy driving bigger vehicles far more than cars - they are usually easier (in my opinion) so YOU need to enjoy what you are doing - driving should be enjoyable as well as serious. And more importantly, take pride in driving WELL !
me too,passed it first time,and surprised. @drrobotnikmeanbeanma
it requires constant safe driving,and high tolerance with other motorists who are anti-bus
Aren't there any normal (sorry...) people for these jobs?
no,that's why I drive one....mwoahahaaahhaaaa
Because the normal people are not interesting for the show
"Normal" people are usually murderers and lunatics.
Like me!!! I’m a bus driver and I’m completely normal 🤪
We’re all unique
In England, if the company passes you then you become a bus driver? There's no Commercial Driver License like here in the US where you have to pass the government test?
The company train you, The examiner is employed by the company but is a trained DVLA (the UK equivalent of the DMV you have in the US) examiner so he has to be impartial, So he cannot pass drivers because he has to be sure that person is safe..
While I was being trained a driver failed within the first 5 mins of the test because he hit a cone during the reverse maneuver which was sad because he was so nervous before the test...
Bus drivers are required to have driver qualification card which is taken during training..
So this is what the driver as to do to be a qualified bus driver in the UK
a medical
a theory test which is a multiple choice of 100 questions which you need 92 out of 100 to pass and pass video test called the hazard perception if you fail one you have to take both again....
CPC module 2 50 questions, This goes toward to your Driver Qualification card
Around 30 hours of driving the actual bus with a 15 hours progress check
CPC module 4 show and tell me section.. You have go around the bus and answer a set random questions given by a instructor, You have physically walk around the bus and inside depend on what he ask you..
Then once you pass them and you pass the progress check you are then put forward for the practical test which last 90 mins, first part is taken off road in the garage where you have to reverse the bus in to marked bay at an angle without crossing a marked line and without hitting any cones and you allowed one shunt to correct yourself if needed...
Once you pass that you are then taken on the road, With a 45 mins guided drive with tight turns and every day traffic and bus stop procedures and you must demonstrate clear use of the mirrors on the vehicle and a 15 min free drive, IE the examiner tells you where to go and you must follow the roads signs and he doesn't give you any direction.
the government test is integrated into the company's tests
Who was he putting his thumps up I saw Alvin do a thumps up to some one
Probably another bus driver.
4:13 sorry some how that bit make me laugh. The driving instructor is so nice xx
Couldn't have my Instructor on telly. He shouted and swore like a docker. I passed though
do they require cdl?
Oh come on
Whats so hard about driving a van??
no pre-trip inspection?
Yes. This is shown in earlier episodes.
Did dene get her job
What year did the first one come out ?
The first what?
I think he meant to say first episode
8:21 Nadine is not driven, she is driv-ING.
14:22 14:28
I want to dream the driver bus in London
Me to I'm addicted