Gettin used to having your ticket inspected.

AlekSmart

Further to the curtailed debate regarding minors and Ticket Checking,it would appear that the procedure itself is becoming more of an issue......


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Apologies for the less-than-perfect photo,but the interesting elements are...

*Checking the validity of passenger tickets and Social Welfare Travel Passes.

*Liasing with the Dept of Social Welfare and An Garda Siochana

Notwithstanding the use of the Old Name for the New DSP,this position appears to indicate something of a hardening of attitude in relation to the oul "Butter Voucher"

Plus,given the rural hinterland of WexfordBus can we expect a rash of signatures being checked from here on in..?

I can think of at least one poster on here for whom this position sounds Tailor-Made !!

foggy_lad

AlekSmart wrote: »

Further to the curtailed debate regarding minors and Ticket Checking,it would appear that the procedure itself is becoming more of an issue......


Photo0001.jpg


Apologies for the less-than-perfect photo,but the interesting elements are...

*Checking the validity of passenger tickets and Social Welfare Travel Passes.

*Liasing with the Dept of Social Welfare and An Garda Siochana

Notwithstanding the use of the Old Name for the New DSP,this position appears to indicate something of a hardening of attitude in relation to the oul "Butter Voucher"

Plus,given the rural hinterland of WexfordBus can we expect a rash of signatures being checked from here on in..?

I can think of at least one poster on here for whom this position sounds Tailor-Made !!

I may be mistaken but is it not part of the NTA licencing that such checks are carried out? I would have thought that maintaining a certain level of service was an integral part of the licence as should be the charging for services as all charges must be set in advance and notified to the NTA so if the companies buses regularly allow people travel free or for less than the advertised rate they are operating not in accordance with their licence.

All bus operators carry out these checks on a regular basis and I have been checked several times over the past few years on JJ Kavanagh buses to and from Dublin and Waterford, more often than on Bus Éireann services!

As for liaising with the DSP and An Garda Siochana this is simply one aspect of the duties of the employee when the position is fill and will mean little more than writing down the pps numbers from travel passes and at a later date checking the validity of the travel passes issued to those pps numbers by phone(liaising) and if found to be invalid the Gardai would then be informed and liaised with.

Sorry to burst your bubble if you thought that there was suddenly going to be agents swooping down from the sky on unsuspecting under-payers or those fraudulently using travel passes:D

AlekSmart

foggy_lad wrote: »

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Sorry to burst your bubble if you thought that there was suddenly going to be agents swooping down from the sky on unsuspecting under-payers or those fraudulently using travel passes:D

Damn...Foiled again !!!

gobnaitolunacy

What does a 'butter voucher' have to do with public transport?

foggy_lad

ya try to butter the driver up with them so he lets ya on for nothin':D

dermo88

Butter can be used to grease the rails on a steep gradient. It can then be used in the restaurant car to cook various delicious snacks, marinated in various exotic ways while the locomotive hauling many hungry enthusiasts struggles on that gradient, thus ensuring their final pleasure using a route is enhanced for further scripture in posterity.

Is that good enough? Is it sarcastic enough?

gobnaitolunacy

Don't try the stand-up circuit whatever you do.