Another bad winter on the cards

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Alsatian]

I'm sure they used to have stickers on the back at one time saying "Please let buses pull out" - I don't know if that ever worked. They certainly don't let you pull out nowadays. Half the time we have to force our way back in to traffic - if we waited for the kindly soul to let you out, we might as well tear up the timetable we are trying to keep to.to put up with.

I was taught to drive by my Father, who was a bus driver for EMMS - therefore you need to wait for me as I always let buses pull out! 

As for "seeming lack of mirror use and indicators" - if you cant see my mirrors, I can't see you. Buses have blind spots as do many large vehicles. Sometimes we can't see whats going off behind us - fact. This gives us a bad reputation.

Whilst my dad was a bus driver EMMS had a fleet of Bristol RE single deckers and they had a floor level window in the back door, which enabled drivers to see what was immediately behind them. He could never understand why that idea was never universally adopted.

[Old Cruser]

Whilst taking my driving lessons my instructor told me to give way to the buses as they had a time to keep to. I still do to this day - so mr Scmitar, if you are in our village and an old lady in a Ford estate holds back to let you through it will probably be me.

[Alsatian]

Whilst taking my driving lessons my instructor told me to give way to the buses as they had a time to keep to. I still do to this day - so mr Scmitar, if you are in our village and an old lady in a Ford estate holds back to let you through it will probably be me.

Were you taught to drive by Kennings by any chance? I ask that 'cos at one time they enjoyed quite a few ex-bus drivers as instructors.

[Old Cruser]

@ Alsatian no it was BSM instructor was from mansfield area i think