Does Dublin Bus refer to passenger count as "skulls"?

Run_to_da_hills

CIE bus conductors in the past use to refere to the number of passengers on board a bus as "skulls".

Perhaps someone who is working or who has worked in DB could let us know if this jargon is still carried down in the service to this day?.

shltter

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

CIE bus conductors in the past use to refere to the number of passengers on board a bus as "skulls".

Just curious to know, has this jargon been carried down to Dublin Bus to this day?.

Dublin Bus as a company or its management would not use the term skulls but it is used amongst drivers nothing derogatory it derives from conductors standing at the back counting heads to make sure he had issued everyone with a ticket. Heads = skulls thats were it comes from.

It is just the language

Car = duty
lap = full journey ie there and back
Half gallop = just one leg of a journey

etc etc

Cleopatra12

I heard this term used by an Inspector on sat in the depot ... Dublin Bus has Customers these days, not passengers... customers....

dublinrose

yes drivers at least still refer to them as skulls..heard from a bus driver- like above poster dont think its derogatory

Run_to_da_hills

This all makes sense now, with all the cut backs they will be offering us a skeleton service :pac:

HonalD

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

This all makes sense now, with all the cut backs they will be offering us a skeleton service :pac:

Not quite, just the bones of one................................................;)

SeanW

yeah, the service will be just a ghost of its former self :rolleyes:

Victor

I actually saw a bus from an odd angle the other night. I was on the upper deck of one bus heading west on Dame Street as another bus was inbound on Cork Hill, which has a different slope, so I was looking "down" at the upper deck. There were no passengers on the upper deck, but if there was, I would have seen the tops of a lot of heads.