✓ LONDON BUS DRIVER GOING FAST
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2015
- A London bus driver running late and not wasting any time at all to get back home. The journey is roughly from Piccadilly Circus to the terminus in Oxford Street and back out without break. All in a rush.
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When bus gets slow, people complain. When bus gets fast, some people still complain.
Victor X.P. No but when the bus goes the speed limit no one should complain because that’s the speed limit, He is in a heavy vehicle that if he hits someone he will kill em. The speed limit is a thing for a reason
People should give these drivers some respect & thank them more often then complain less. They really r doing the best they can .Walk in their shoes 4 a while then u'd understand & appreciate them more .God Bless all u drivers !
I can remember driving the buses so well in London, my route fave was the 205 from Paddington to Mile End. I was always told that most accidents happen going onto your break or on your last run home, therefore i never rushed those two journeys ever. Ihave to say that i got a real buzz out of driving in London, whether it be the traffic or just being busy, it was great fun and never once did i find it stressful on the road. I left just after they started issueing swab kits to drivers in case they got spat on, your only doing your job, if you walk into a supermarket and they don't serve you quick enough you don't spit on them do you, so why do that to a bus driver, we are human too
They were bearable back then and you could also have a laugh with the other drivers but you can never underestimate what passengers could present to you in situation experiences but it's all about how you react to any given situation
You'll be fine, don't worry and enjoy the experience, don't rush your checks and have a positive relaxed approach but never be complacent, always make notes of where you can use the toilets also that can be a lifesaver, eat healthily no burgers or bad food, please let me know how you progress
@@richardgeorge8612thanks for the advice, I know this is a very late response to your comment but I got hired to a bus company and am starting my training pretty soon. Overall, I am excited about starting this job and look forward to it, my only issue is I’m a little nervous if I’m a good enough driver to cut it being a bus driver.. I’ve only been driving for a year or so if that and have never driven anything bigger than a car. People have told me this doesn’t really matter though, as most people start out the same way, and tell me I shouldn’t be nervous about this. If you see this, or anyone for that matter, any advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks 👍
I love being on a fast bus 🚌 I like to sit up front and jubilate when they go though ambers! " go on my son" I say as the bus bobs about speedily, best bus driver is a fast one!
Joshua White looool, ive been on a bus racing side by side with another, good when they skip like 5 stops
Loooool
Grand driving there mate. I really enjoyed the thrash on those 2002 Dennis Trident Alexander ALX400's and these ones having the 260bhp uprated Cummins ISC engines were the best buses that London had at the time. Nowadays everything is mainly Hybrid or Electric.
Really thought he was pulling onto oncoming traffic at the beginning lol
Very assured confident driver, needs to be in london
He is in London
Love it when bus drivers go fast especially on the Enviro 400s
Thomas Fluskey me too. Do you sit up deck at the front?
Enviros going fast? That's unlikely
KD84Afc™ Streetdecks going fast? That's unlikely
LazyGuy222 2 I find Streetdecks quite fast accelerating though. Fast Enviros seem rare however I have been on some Enviro 400's that were driven fast or faster than usual.
Thomas Fluskey Pulsar Geminis are my faves for going fast. I get good E400s on my route but it’s slow as crap so if I want to get some speed on one, I have to go to the other side of the county,
Some sound driving skills, you certainly need them in London! The likes of Green Road are preventing 'us' bus drivers from 'driving.' ;)
And it is also proven to have substantially brought down the number of accidents from both outside and inside the buses since its implementation.
I was a Green Road Champion/Manager years ago as well as driving buses for a decade and seen all the accident reporting statistics that back up this fact.
You can still drive a bus effectively without driving like lunatic trying to keep to time.
No customer complaints in central London as all the passengers are tourists
Very nice!
Even though I wouldn't call it fast - the driver did a really good job (it's not easy to get much higher average speed than a marathon runner in that traffic, haha).
Back when london bus journeys were fun. Nowadays they all seem to crawl.
tbh buses are worse now with these modern buses, it was better back in the day
Well it save lives and injuries thats the point we don’t need to rush.
he looks like a good driver to me . he get you soon to your destination
I love fast bus rides after school one car I front was going slow on the right lane and we needed to run right on the next intersection which was close so my bus driver went to the left lane and speed real fast and we just cut the other guy off and barely made the turn and she was a cool bus driver who dropped me off at my house and would skip all the stops to allow me to be the only rider. My mom called while I was in the bus and my driver asked who it was and I said my mom so my mom while on speaker phone said I better be home in 5 we were like 12 minutes away and we booked it and made it in 4 by cutting the route in half and going 80mph.
Dennis trident nice one
That driver definitely is on the hurry to get back home
Good 😊 to watch buses today are great 👍 to steer
Sad that you don't get to drive MCWs anymore.
by the way kick down is when you drive an auto and I'd you push the throttle to the floor it kicks down a geer
Central London is like a motorway but slower.
The thing is you can't see speed limit as he is going so how do you he is really to fast as it's strainge now
Needs a citaro the ones we've got fly and top out at 62
What are you always writing in that notepad? Also I was wondering if you had a picture of the driver time table document. I am modding a game with personal textures. I would love some reference material if you wouldn't mind.
We always have to record the time of departure, the time of arrival and where you have arrived. This is required by transport for London. I don't have a duty card, But any bus driver will be able to show you one. I no longer work for the buses.
Life Reportage thanks for the quick reply. Do you only record times of Bus stops and not request stops or both. Also what made you want to quit bus driving.
No you only record the times you depart from each end of the route, this is a duty card that every driver gets fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/704546_3627482980465_1384237951_o.jpg
you also get a log card c2.staticflickr.com/6/5463/7230105708_b6e09fbf56_n.jpg So I would record the time I departed Tottenham town hall and arrive at Waterloo station then I would also log the trip numbers and on my return journey do the same..
you would also log if needed a curtailment which means if a bus driver was turned around, like if you look at the duty card and I was turned at Bank, I would log the place and time and also be given a code by control to reason why I was turned around... I would also log breakdowns etc..
that bus driver should be a London hackney drive. as long as the passengers feel safe well in
Have you tried buses here in the Philippines (especially Metro Manila)? Mind you, they're a lot faster than this! They swerve like there's no tomorrow, like they are just small cars!
Reminds me of a Guy I Line Trained with when I was with Academy Bus, Training on NJT and he'd do 45-50 in a 25
NJT drivers are wild bro. i was on the 197 entering jersey from warwick and we went like 60 in a 20 lmfaoo.
@@843Reboot I knowwww lmfao
Life reportage, did the driver stop at all the stops when people rung the bell? I have now had several encounters with bus drivers when they failed to stop at bus stops despite my self-ringing the bell in ample time!
We are all humans and humans make mistakes, especially on an extremely repetitive job like driving a bus, where you have to stop every few hundred metres for the whole day, often for 12 hours a day and very often for 6/7 days a week.
He is not going that fast
Like to drive in central London?
I'm sure another passenger wanted to get on at 4:20
No one can board once bus has pulled out from bus stop, even if is only a few feet away
Maybe not in London but where I live, Kent/Medway bus drivers usually will stop, until they ofcourse get more than say 2-3 feet away from the bus stop
Some bus drivers in dublin will let you on or wait for you if you're running from halfway to the bus stop
Alec Daniel One time I was waiting 4 a bus in Sevenoaks and there was traffic I was at the bus stop and I thought the driver wasn’t going to open the because there was parked cars and traffic the bus was like almost in the middle of the road the driver opened the doors I got on the bus sat down and I had a good feeling
All bus driving and time tabling should be done like that
ask the lates question
Do the London bus drivers just learn one route and stay on that? or do they have to learn other routes too ?
It varies from company to company. In some companies you drive only one route and in others you have to learn them all and every day you’re on a different route. Having said this, it always helps to know more roots, just in case you feel like doing some overtime on your rest day.
the old people must be leaving skid marks as the bus goes normal speeds
You think this bus is fast? Wow, this bus is slow compared to some of the buses I've been on. For example, I was on the 376 bus going to Wells from Bristol Temple Meeds and throughout the journey, the bus driver was travelling at around 50mph or so. Well, in saying that though, the speed limit was 50mph lol
Joshua White Yeah fuck that, I ain't going there anytime soon then lol 😂😂🤣
We need to remember that speed limits in London are very slow so this is why it is classed as fast driving which it is?!
Those rattles all day would drive me crazy. I bet the boss's cars don't rattle like that.
I used to drive that old truck in my signature photo and it didn't rattle like that and I used to drive it a lot in London from Tottenham Hale to Colliers Wood when they were building the Victoria Line tube.
BS
i am from eltham and the most accidents are cores by the 321
TFL bus drivers, the most dangerous drivers on uk roads
I see you haven't travelled much 🤣🤣
Arriva north east left me with a broken nose and a plam
Did any one see the old green Austin turning into Jermyn st ...☕
Thomas Fluksey same
leave da bus Driver alone
Fast? Don't see anything fast in this clip. In that part of L9ndon, where this is filmed, fast is more likely a max of 30mph for about 2 sec. In these busses on the narrow London streets 20mph seems fast.
What bus is this?
Transbus Dennis ALX400
@@SLTyt Mk
@@hackurva Mark 2 I think
Are you allowed to drive that fast?
Smoke Nandos I believe its called kickdown.
Thomas Fluskey kickdown just means that full throttle is applied; how fast you're "allowed" to drive depends on the speed limit and road conditions
Smoke Nandos Bus drivers, couriers etc who have a job where stuff or people must be delivered in a certain timeframe will (regardless of rules) drive fast. I should know. Many don't have sympathy for us but whether we drive fast or not the world keeps turning and people and things have to be delivered
What was the point of this ?
This is just dangerous driving
why is the steering wheel on the wrong side?
its not this is england
No way could i do this job, not even if it was the best paid job in the world
His driving here is very Montreal..that eager fella wishes broad boulevards, eh.. .. . .
Omg his doing so many things wrong , his sliding the wheel, his cross steering , his changing destination on the move , omg,
Welcome to London... new driver? Give it a few months and you'll drive even faster than this.
0:26 oh look hitler!
@Rod Francis the car
Fast?!!! Seen farts move quicker!!!
I saw a frog jumping across the road at 3:42 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸
I have to work with drivers like this all the time they are paid by the hour they just like to think they are the best that type of aggressive driving ends up in a accident eventually so unprofessional and sad to watch
Adrian Mcdonagh it's not aggressive or unprofessional, he was running late
@@RWL2012 unprofessional dude was leaving passengers
Driving a bus fast is not your job, its driving a bus safe and comfortable for your passengers driving slow is required when you running early on low frequency routes or running to close to your leaders on high frequency. Its easy to drive a bus fast but harder to regulate your driving.
A perfect example of how not to drive a bus in central London. That guy is dangerous.
bloobsta WRONG
Awful driver
MrSuckitandc let's see you try then
awful driver.
Staltwitch Junction let's see you drive.
Staltwitch Junction: How come? He was in full control at all times. He was fast but safe. So your comment is invalid mate.
That was a while ago, so I don't care.
And?
Leaving passengers behind, although that's not an obligation because technically he had pulled away but it's heartless