I knew there had been some poor conditions in the London area, but didn’t realise it was snow and a fair amount too. It was frosty, but without snow in my part of Yorkshire and the gritters have been out. Great atmospheric video Peter.
Nobody knows how to drive in the snow any longer !! We used to cope with this decades ago and knew how to drive in these conditions but everyone now drives as if they are on a race track which is lethal in snow. We should go back to teaching how to cope with it !!!!!!
@@Avgeek_germain its all about safety i drive my scooter in these condition but safety is also a thing we like to call i prefer a bus to be suspended than ending up crashing with ppl on board
Brings back memories of the short time I drove buses for Stagecoach. Was in an Alexander PS body B10M with more snow tha in this video. Schedule was already so far behind, I was told to take the bus back to where it came from and back instead on to where it should have gone. Got stuck at one point due to a post van not yielding to me (despite the fact I had priority) and causing me to stop on an uphill slope. Back wheels spun and spun until I grabbed an armful of Metro newspapers from the rack behind the cab and stuffed them under the nearside rear wheels. This gave me enough traction to get going again. Later in that run, I came to the top of a very steep hill in a town. At the bottom was a broken set of traffic lights (Broken because they wee constantly changing to red, giving priority to the minor, seldom used road to the right). So there was a large queue of cars. The hill was pure ice. I'd already began to slip while at the top and there was no reversing. So I had to go down. So, I edge forwards, steered to the left to bump the front wheel off the kerb and basically slid down the road, bumping off the kerb using it as a friction brake which kept the speed down to 5mph and once I got onto the non slip paint just before the lights, all was OK. That was a sweaty shift!
I don`t wonder why you only drove a bus for a short time. Should have stayed put at the top when you did not slip. Surely that isn`t the way to drive a bus. Bouncing off kirbs going downhill. Why bother and put other peoples lives at risk?
@@SuperFredc Did you even read the comment? He was already sliding at the top of the hill, he had no choice but to go down. It was either bump it off the kerb or hit the cars at the bottom at ridiculous speeds. Which one would you rather?
@@cmdrquillon9398 Of course I read the comment. Obviously every word unlike you. He did not say he had no choice that is your opinion. He said there was no reversing. So edged forward. Edged forward?? Meaning he, not the ice, not you, not me, propelled the vehicle forward. Why didn`t he just put it into the kirb and leave it? rather than try to negotiate a dangerous situation. Its a good job there was no parked cars on that hill otherwise he would have taken them out also. After his previous situations before this hill surely there must have been a time he should have realised that approaching that hill was probably a bad idea. I wonder if you even drive.
Back again to this video, by far the best on youtube! Just because it was my former home and local routes. Definitely your videos help mate when I get homesick
Looking back at this just driven in the snow but in a MMC 200 haha. How did this handle in the snow all from Enfield, crikey and any 313s coming from Potters Bar. Gotta hand it to us who can do it
I am currently in hospital. The snow looked spectacular as it fell. I do not know how long I will be in for, but I hope it clears before I go home. Thanks to all bus drivers for doing a fantastic job in all weathers.
Nice video, bad conditions for driving! Nice to see Arkley again, when I used to drive this route back in the late 90's that was the route termination point. Some things don't change though, like getting no response from TFL!
I drove transit buses in Denver for over 30 years and conditions were like this several times every winter. As I got older I liked driving in the snow less and less. It wasn't the snow as much as the other traffic on the streets many drivers who should not have been driving in those conditions.
Great video and shots in the snow 👍 loads of snow came down in London, I didn't realise it was that bad. Hope no one came a cropper as it looked treacherous at the end there!
I remember doing the staff bus in the snow one night with RM2015 (supposed to use a Metrobus but an RM was better in the snow). It was slow going but I got everyone home, no getting called in early in those days you just got on with it. Fun times.
I remember once in Haworth driving down an icy steep road confronted with discarded snow plough facing me, had to do a sliding side-ways action to stop then had to dig for hours to cut grooves out which took hours, the council had just forgotten to put up a “closed road” sign apparently!
That was surprisingly fascinating. Just subbed. As a kid I used to enjoy the old RT buses. We could all gather on the platform and jump early if there was traffic. Don't think I've been on a bus since though. Shame really. Now I live in a place where there are no buses.
Snow never stopped bus operations in Manchester and the Cotton Towns in the 60,70 and 80s Manuel gears and sand bags. Why are modern buses incapable of handling the soft stuff. Served thirty years on public transport in the Manchester region
It was my 2nd time seeing snow, as a person who was born and raised in Brazil in tropical areas, it a a true phenomenon to see but quite dangerous at the same time.
Didn't get any snow whatosever here on the Essex coast. Interesting video and an insight into your working life. New york got the snow really bad a few weeks ago. 6"/hr for a total of around 6.5ft of snow!! Imagine that here in the UK and the chaos it would bring.
17/12 22, Still Autumn till 21/12 - that was 11/12. Met Office predicts rain starting next week & later temperatures around 10°C - prepare for floods !
You lucky sod. The snow can make your day better. Only once in my 21 years of bus driving did the snow came down really heavy and all services were cancelled.
I’m in Ottawa, Canada, and have only ONE question. . . You call THAT Snow? We’re in the process of getting 25cm of the heavy wet stuff at the moment. . . Where we see problems is with the articulated busses, where they jackknife trying to climb a 2% grade. . .
I drove a transit bus for 27 years in Canada , very hot summers and super cold winters . Not Fun ! Buses were never taken off the roads . This is what separates the men from the boys .
I used to live in West Yorkshire a shovel was a necessity in my boot, several times I have had to cut tracks in ice just to move, use to go to work when the roads were indistinguishable, only the poles at either side your guide
It looks like different areas were affected differently. I was in the Barnet area along the 263, but only just before 9pm; I didn't catch sight of any 307s. I was later seeing a number of 143s stuck in Highgate with the hazards on, and the 210s were beginning to be turned to the village. It felt like the dual-carriageway routes had it a lot easier, since the amount of cars over the road probably gave the snow less time to settle.
@@BristolRE It did? I must have been lucky to find myself home again. I know I wasn't expecting the heavy snow, but I wonder if it surprised the highway agencies too.
maybe a good idea would be to give buckets of grit to local houses? and offer them £10 to throw grit onto roads? after a text message? or have two sacks of grit in a compartment of buses, that drops it over a 400m area. only filled between dec-jan.
We didn't get a great deal of snow in Birmingham. I actually loved driving buses in the snow, loved to see how quickly nature and the environment changes its look in minutes.
Wow. In the 94 working for Grey Green at the time. I was on the 24 on Volvo BM10s when the inspector said do Mornington Crescent till I tell you to stop 30mins there 2 hours back again 30mins 3hours back pulled of the road at 8pm Empty from Hampstead to Stamford Hill. I drove the 313s on Scania 112 Chingford to Potters Barr alternating to South Mimms
Nicely shot video, no sign of the gritters, we shouldn't be surprised, i live in Tower Hamlets, no pavements gritted here. Hats off to Canary Wharf management pavements gritted and pretty much cleared in a day.
Tunbridge wells, Hastings, Tonbridge, Tenterden - basically all of the Kent downs and East Sussex was screwed everywhere a complete standstill yesterday
Well done for filming this, snow is common in the UK now and sometimes it’s heavy, it may get worse over the years as predictions go… A piece of UK weather history👍🏻
More extreme weather events are becoming more common crazy heat in the summer, temperature drops in the winter. My neck of the woods got down to -10°C with the windchill.
It’s a shame you have to wait in the canteen , because as the weather gets worse , the roads get more dangerous making it difficult for staff to get home. Obviously the staff can’t use buses to get home because they’re grounded and driving home in a car might be impossible.
@@erikstenviken2652 not the right tyres fitted (why would you, we perhaps get now this bad once every few years). Too risky in large bus with other cars, cyclists and pedestrians around. Not worth the risk.
Around the same time in Trondheim in Norway, At least three or four times the amount of Snow and twice as 🥶 Trains running and Bus to train Station 4 minutes late. Three snowplough vehicles in 40 minutes .
So easy to get cancelled bus services. I remember at Arriva in Wigan the first bus out at 04.30 was the staff bus that the driver didn’t show up for, meaning 15 or so drivers didn’t get to work on time. Eventually the allocator went out to get them. This resulted in drivers arriving by car not taking buses out as well.
The snow isn’t the problem, it’s the fact that we focus so much on rules of the road when teaching learners that they don’t know how to handle a car in extreme conditions. There should be a race/high speed part to driving tests along with extreme conditions. Whether you’re allowed to drive at high speed or in extreme conditions is irrelevant as it’s certain that atleast once you’ll be caught in a situation where knowing how to handle your car in these ways will save not only your life but others.
I was a driver for First in Leeds, most stressful job I've ever had, stuck it for 6 years. Horrendous shift patterns and always exhausted. I had a heart attack last week and believe this job was the main reason for it, will never go back to bus driving again!
Arriva made me redundant last year after 20 years. So at 63 I took early retirement as the job has knackered me, bad back, knackered knees and hips. Feel so sorry for the guys still doing it. Management don't give a F about the workforce, so it's down to us to look after ourselves.
Definitely not good for your health, bus driving. I'm in my 37th year, not sure how I've stuck it so long! Hope you recover and can enjoy life away from buses
What are your thoughts on bringing back the conductor maybe based at key stops? I live in the 25, 86 route, Stratford Atherton stop. They could do other duties.
If anyone does not like driving on snow should never do. I love been out and about when snows and enjoy as much driving anything, bike, car , anything that has a wheels and engine-motor.
A very interesting and unusual video Peter. Thank heavens I don't drive buses or indeed any other vehicles these days. Luckily you finished early but how was your journey home?
jesus there was loads of snow. quick question peter, say i was to start working at enfield garage, would i drive on routes out of enfield, or would i be moved around garages?
You only drive routes from whatever garage you are based at. If you join with your licence you get to choose what garage, if the company has to train you for your test / licence then they send you to a garage of their choosing
So ….. if the access roads into B. Hospital are closed, where does one pickup the buses going towards Mill Hill / edgware that you’d normally collect out the hospital at the top of the hill?
I knew there had been some poor conditions in the London area, but didn’t realise it was snow and a fair amount too. It was frosty, but without snow in my part of Yorkshire and the gritters have been out. Great atmospheric video Peter.
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If you go to my account I caught some action too
Nobody knows how to drive in the snow any longer !! We used to cope with this decades ago and knew how to drive in these conditions but everyone now drives as if they are on a race track which is lethal in snow. We should go back to teaching how to cope with it !!!!!!
Yes, we did cope years ago
O just go to the Netherlands. No matter the weather, people don't know how to drive both on bike and car.
@@Avgeek_germain Lol
@Tom Indeed
@@Avgeek_germain its all about safety i drive my scooter in these condition but safety is also a thing we like to call i prefer a bus to be suspended than ending up crashing with ppl on board
Brings back memories of the short time I drove buses for Stagecoach. Was in an Alexander PS body B10M with more snow tha in this video. Schedule was already so far behind, I was told to take the bus back to where it came from and back instead on to where it should have gone.
Got stuck at one point due to a post van not yielding to me (despite the fact I had priority) and causing me to stop on an uphill slope. Back wheels spun and spun until I grabbed an armful of Metro newspapers from the rack behind the cab and stuffed them under the nearside rear wheels. This gave me enough traction to get going again.
Later in that run, I came to the top of a very steep hill in a town. At the bottom was a broken set of traffic lights (Broken because they wee constantly changing to red, giving priority to the minor, seldom used road to the right). So there was a large queue of cars. The hill was pure ice. I'd already began to slip while at the top and there was no reversing. So I had to go down. So, I edge forwards, steered to the left to bump the front wheel off the kerb and basically slid down the road, bumping off the kerb using it as a friction brake which kept the speed down to 5mph and once I got onto the non slip paint just before the lights, all was OK.
That was a sweaty shift!
I don`t wonder why you only drove a bus for a short time. Should have stayed put at the top when you did not slip. Surely that isn`t the way to drive a bus. Bouncing off kirbs going downhill. Why bother and put other peoples lives at risk?
That sounds nasty, hate driving in the snow
@@SuperFredc Did you even read the comment? He was already sliding at the top of the hill, he had no choice but to go down. It was either bump it off the kerb or hit the cars at the bottom at ridiculous speeds. Which one would you rather?
@@cmdrquillon9398 Of course I read the comment. Obviously every word unlike you. He did not say he had no choice that is your opinion. He said there was no reversing. So edged forward. Edged forward?? Meaning he, not the ice, not you, not me, propelled the vehicle forward. Why didn`t he just put it into the kirb and leave it? rather than try to negotiate a dangerous situation. Its a good job there was no parked cars on that hill otherwise he would have taken them out also. After his previous situations before this hill surely there must have been a time he should have realised that approaching that hill was probably a bad idea. I wonder if you even drive.
Back again to this video, by far the best on youtube! Just because it was my former home and local routes. Definitely your videos help mate when I get homesick
I remember this day
I was hoping and praying that the snow would come and go before the 23rd of December when I was hiring a car 😅
Lol
Looking back at this just driven in the snow but in a MMC 200 haha. How did this handle in the snow all from Enfield, crikey and any 313s coming from Potters Bar. Gotta hand it to us who can do it
absolutely terrible weather to drive in, but what a lovely sight! absolutely beautiful
Indeed!
I am currently in hospital.
The snow looked spectacular as it fell.
I do not know how long I will be in for, but I hope it clears before I go home.
Thanks to all bus drivers for doing a fantastic job in all weathers.
Thanks, I too hope it clears soon!
Nice one mate, love the peace and quiet when it's snowing. Certainly wouldn't fancy driving a bus in that.
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Nice video, bad conditions for driving! Nice to see Arkley again, when I used to drive this route back in the late 90's that was the route termination point. Some things don't change though, like getting no response from TFL!
Thanks, and yes indeed!
That was fun .... Don't know how I got here but I'll definitely subscribe. What a pristine phone .... Clear picture! Thank you and drive safe.🙏🏾🇬🇧
Thank You!
I drove transit buses in Denver for over 30 years and conditions were like this several times every winter. As I got older I liked driving in the snow less and less. It wasn't the snow as much as the other traffic on the streets many drivers who should not have been driving in those conditions.
Yes, always other road users are the issue
It's way too easy to get - and get to keep - a driver's license these days.
@@dsludge8217 In the case of Denver it was California transplants with new 4x4 suvs that have never driven on anything worse than the 405 in LA.
Great video and shots in the snow 👍 loads of snow came down in London, I didn't realise it was that bad. Hope no one came a cropper as it looked treacherous at the end there!
Thanks! Not enough gritting happening, was better the next day
very important job, i hope you get the remuneration and secure future that you deserve
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I am new follower of you channel. Love your videos
Thank You
I love it when it snows thick like that so you had to finish then as the snow was so drive hard all had to stay there hope you extra for snow waitting
Hate driving in snow, you can have any more that is due!
Fantastic video quality, possibly the best I've seen on YT! 😃
Thank You!
The snow shots were lovelly,please keep safe.
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Great video Peter. The snow is lovely to look out but to drive in must be nasty.
Thanks, and yes it is
I remember doing the staff bus in the snow one night with RM2015 (supposed to use a Metrobus but an RM was better in the snow). It was slow going but I got everyone home, no getting called in early in those days you just got on with it. Fun times.
Indeed. Different types of buses though. RMs and RTs held the road so much better than modern buses do
What an adventure that was! Luckily, it doesn't occur often. Great footage and narration ✨️ ⛄️ ☃️ ❄️ 🎅
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Meanwhile, here in Perth, we are enjoying a 30C day. Off to the beach with the kids.
Good Video. I think with the 307s transfer to Arriva, they now operate all of the routes that pass outside Enfield Garage!
excellent video thoroughly enjoyed
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This is beautiful ❤
I remember once in Haworth driving down an icy steep road confronted with discarded snow plough facing me, had to do a sliding side-ways action to stop then had to dig for hours to cut grooves out which took hours, the council had just forgotten to put up a “closed road” sign apparently!
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That was surprisingly fascinating. Just subbed.
As a kid I used to enjoy the old RT buses. We could all gather on the platform and jump early if there was traffic. Don't think I've been on a bus since though. Shame really. Now I live in a place where there are no buses.
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You mean the uk?
@@obtuse1291 LMAO no rural West of Ireland
Snow never stopped bus operations in Manchester and the Cotton Towns in the 60,70 and 80s Manuel gears and sand bags. Why are modern buses incapable of handling the soft stuff. Served thirty years on public transport in the Manchester region
Agreed. Modern buses just won't hold the road
It was my 2nd time seeing snow, as a person who was born and raised in Brazil in tropical areas, it a a true phenomenon to see but quite dangerous at the same time.
Yes indeed
Good videos Peter it was a big snowfall yesterday night
Thanks, yes, it was
Didn't get any snow whatosever here on the Essex coast. Interesting video and an insight into your working life. New york got the snow really bad a few weeks ago. 6"/hr for a total of around 6.5ft of snow!! Imagine that here in the UK and the chaos it would bring.
Nothing would move in the UK for days!
Winter has come. Great video again.❄❄☃
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17/12 22, Still Autumn till 21/12 - that was 11/12. Met Office predicts rain starting next week & later temperatures around 10°C - prepare for floods !
Good report..I'm in Dallas Texas 🇬🇧
Nice and warm here ..
Nice!
You lucky sod. The snow can make your day better. Only once in my 21 years of bus driving did the snow came down really heavy and all services were cancelled.
Nice
Looks delightful. I miss snow
I'll send it to you then, lol
thx for the documentary, safe driving
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307 used to stop outside my house on Cat Hill, growing up 80's and 90's. Took it many times to see friends in Enfield or High Barnet.
Nice
I really enjoyed that sir,
Thank You
I’m in Ottawa, Canada, and have only ONE question. . . You call THAT Snow? We’re in the process of getting 25cm of the heavy wet stuff at the moment. . .
Where we see problems is with the articulated busses, where they jackknife trying to climb a 2% grade. . .
For London this was a lot of snow! Lol.
I drove a transit bus for 27 years in Canada , very hot summers and super cold winters . Not Fun ! Buses were never taken off the roads . This is what separates the men from the boys .
Indeed
I used to live in West Yorkshire a shovel was a necessity in my boot, several times I have had to cut tracks in ice just to move, use to go to work when the roads were indistinguishable, only the poles at either side your guide
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Interesting video.
Please show us more of your runarounds.
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Thank you for this graphic footage from Southbury Road 🌟
Lol
Fresh untouched snow looks lovely, but try driving a 3.5 tonne van uphill on it even when it's only a couple of inches thick...
Snow tyres is all everyone needs amazing difference
Yes indeed
Cheers Peter.I enjoyed that little video for some reason 🤔
Thanks, Lol
It looks like different areas were affected differently. I was in the Barnet area along the 263, but only just before 9pm; I didn't catch sight of any 307s.
I was later seeing a number of 143s stuck in Highgate with the hazards on, and the 210s were beginning to be turned to the village. It felt like the dual-carriageway routes had it a lot easier, since the amount of cars over the road probably gave the snow less time to settle.
Eventually even the A406 North Circular ground to a halt, as did the M25
@@BristolRE It did? I must have been lucky to find myself home again. I know I wasn't expecting the heavy snow, but I wonder if it surprised the highway agencies too.
@@BabyRosalinaFan82 I saw photos on Facebook the next day, 406 was gridlocked around my area
maybe a good idea would be to give buckets of grit to local houses? and offer them £10 to throw grit onto roads? after a text message? or have two sacks of grit in a compartment of buses, that drops it over a 400m area. only filled between dec-jan.
I remember using the 307 bus around end of December 2022 and there was a lot of snow
Yes indeed
Great commentary and filming as a bus driver myself I was working in the snow myself with Metrobus in West Sussex
It's not enjoyable, is it?
@BristolRE Certainly not but we both got back safely
@@TheBusracer That's good
Thanks for showing us your duty card. Very interesting.
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We didn't get a great deal of snow in Birmingham. I actually loved driving buses in the snow, loved to see how quickly nature and the environment changes its look in minutes.
It looks nice, that's about it, lol
Nice to meet a fellow Enfieldian 👍 subscribed
Thanks! Will check yours out
Looked amazing, Jel we do not get much in the North where we are YES the north of England)!
Lol
Interesting video.
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Wow. In the 94 working for Grey Green at the time. I was on the 24 on Volvo BM10s when the inspector said do Mornington Crescent till I tell you to stop 30mins there 2 hours back again 30mins 3hours back pulled of the road at 8pm Empty from Hampstead to Stamford Hill. I drove the 313s on Scania 112 Chingford to Potters Barr alternating to South Mimms
Happy Days
Nicely shot video, no sign of the gritters, we shouldn't be surprised, i live in Tower Hamlets, no pavements gritted here. Hats off to Canary Wharf management pavements gritted and pretty much cleared in a day.
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It looks lovely stay safe
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The bus to roehampton is the most terrifying bus ride I know of .
Can’t imagine it on ice
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I hate driving in the snow. You could clip some good photos for Christmas cards. Lol
Indeed!
I loved the snow and was at work when it started. But if your job is driving, then no fun.
Indeed
Tunbridge wells, Hastings, Tonbridge, Tenterden - basically all of the Kent downs and East Sussex was screwed everywhere a complete standstill yesterday
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Well done for filming this, snow is common in the UK now and sometimes it’s heavy, it may get worse over the years as predictions go…
A piece of UK weather history👍🏻
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More extreme weather events are becoming more common crazy heat in the summer, temperature drops in the winter. My neck of the woods got down to -10°C with the windchill.
Not really TBH. There's less disruption from snow nowadays than there was in the 70s & 80s IME.
@@EdgyNumber1 😥😥
I hope no one driving for Brighton and Hove buses got stuck on the downs when it snowed, that must of been at least -12 with windchill
Nice video keep it up also it nice to have Snow
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@@BristolRE you are welcome
It’s a shame you have to wait in the canteen , because as the weather gets worse , the roads get more dangerous making it difficult for staff to get home. Obviously the staff can’t use buses to get home because they’re grounded and driving home in a car might be impossible.
Wow the depth of snow on top of the bus at the end was phenomenal for just a few hours of snowfall.
Indeed
That level of snow looks like nothing serious
@@ligametis half a foot (6 inches) in London is quite a lot mate
Looks like a normal snowy day. I cant get you cant drive in it?
@@erikstenviken2652 not the right tyres fitted (why would you, we perhaps get now this bad once every few years). Too risky in large bus with other cars, cyclists and pedestrians around. Not worth the risk.
That intro is straight from the nineties
Lol
Thank goodness its warm enough in Wellington NZ in December for shorts and t-shirt
Nice!
Buses in the Alps drive in these conditions all Winter (on steep inclines!), the right tyres make all the difference though...
Yes, I can imagine!
Haha remember my Titan sliding down a hill in snow. All fun and games, nothing changes
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At least you got to warm up in the canteen with a nice cuppa.
Indeed
Around the same time in Trondheim in Norway, At least three or four times the amount of Snow and twice as 🥶 Trains running and Bus to train Station 4 minutes late. Three snowplough vehicles in
40 minutes .
That's what we need - snowploughs!
@@BristolRE and proper snow tyres!
Great vidio mate
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So easy to get cancelled bus services.
I remember at Arriva in Wigan the first bus out at 04.30 was the staff bus that the driver didn’t show up for, meaning 15 or so drivers didn’t get to work on time. Eventually the allocator went out to get them. This resulted in drivers arriving by car not taking buses out as well.
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I'm coming to London in March bud damn looks nice and difficult for Londoners at the same time. I don't know how to drive in snowy conditions either.
It's no fun
The snow isn’t the problem, it’s the fact that we focus so much on rules of the road when teaching learners that they don’t know how to handle a car in extreme conditions. There should be a race/high speed part to driving tests along with extreme conditions. Whether you’re allowed to drive at high speed or in extreme conditions is irrelevant as it’s certain that atleast once you’ll be caught in a situation where knowing how to handle your car in these ways will save not only your life but others.
Indeed
I was a driver for First in Leeds, most stressful job I've ever had, stuck it for 6 years. Horrendous shift patterns and always exhausted. I had a heart attack last week and believe this job was the main reason for it, will never go back to bus driving again!
Arriva made me redundant last year after 20 years. So at 63 I took early retirement as the job has knackered me, bad back, knackered knees and hips. Feel so sorry for the guys still doing it. Management don't give a F about the workforce, so it's down to us to look after ourselves.
Definitely not good for your health, bus driving. I'm in my 37th year, not sure how I've stuck it so long! Hope you recover and can enjoy life away from buses
What are your thoughts on bringing back the conductor maybe based at key stops? I live in the 25, 86 route, Stratford Atherton stop. They could do other duties.
They did trial pavement conductors back in the 90s, would check them on via the exit doors
Very interesting vid 👍⛄️
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A double Decker. Wow that buss can take many passengers.
Oh dear better safe than sorry hey ❤
Great Vid Pete full paid 😅💯❄️😅
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@@BristolRE no worries mate 💯👌🏾
3:49 demonstration of the tribulations and wows of having a two wheel drive only car 😂 service suspended "on full pay" glorious lol
Yes indeed, lol
If anyone does not like driving on snow should never do. I love been out and about when snows and enjoy as much driving anything, bike, car , anything that has a wheels and engine-motor.
Nice to see they're already preparing drivers for the transition to electric buses🤙
Indeed
Is there any word on when the weekend night service of the 307 shall return?
No, afraid not heard anything
Was an interesting night I was driving 277 East London could hear Enfield being mentioned a lot on the radio
Odd why we got it so bad
I'm glad we didn't have snow up here
You can have ours
A very interesting and unusual video Peter. Thank heavens I don't drive buses or indeed any other vehicles these days. Luckily you finished early but how was your journey home?
Journey home was fine, no traffic, just took it slow in the car
@@BristolRE Excellent.
I drove route 11 , 24 & 19 for 6 years in London. Most horrible job I have ever done. I hate shift work.
It used to be a good job, not anymore
LOVELy VID
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Very good upload mate 😊😊😊
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I’m glad you had a good heater on that bus. Anything fancier on newer buses like a heated driver seat?
Heated seat? No chance!
Heated seat? you would be lucky if the heaters worked on the buses I used to drive, the MAN east lancs mylenniums were horrible in cold weather.
Luckily i havent been at work for a month so i missed all the snow issues thank god, feels like I haven’t driven in ages
Missing the snow is a bonus
jesus there was loads of snow. quick question peter, say i was to start working at enfield garage, would i drive on routes out of enfield, or would i be moved around garages?
You only drive routes from whatever garage you are based at. If you join with your licence you get to choose what garage, if the company has to train you for your test / licence then they send you to a garage of their choosing
So ….. if the access roads into B. Hospital are closed, where does one pickup the buses going towards Mill Hill / edgware that you’d normally collect out the hospital at the top of the hill?
Yes, on the bus stops on the main road, would be marked as route 107 but all routes would serve them if the hospital access was closed
I had no idea you were a Metroline driver! Haven't been watching much because of school
Oh my gosh! I never knew 307 is Arriva now! Even though it passes my houses, I never realised
@@byetdate Lol
THe new 307 looks good
It does
@@BristolRE I take that bus every day
@@fluminggrain Cool
Lovely seeing the snow.
Looks nice, nasty to drive and walk in
And give the bus more gloss ! 😂