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Dublin Bus looking for Drivers

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    #902
    btmp75
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭btmp75


    Hi I have test on 1st April. Just wondering how did, you write or what format you wrote the incident report. Could you give me an example paragraph please. I looked all over the net to find a suitable one. All of them are in different formats.


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    #903
    Eeeeno
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Eeeeno


    btmp75 wrote: »
    Hi I have test on 1st April.

    Out of curiosity when did you submit application form?
    I sent mine in early Feb .
    Thanks
    P.


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    #904
    btmp75
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭btmp75


    I sent it on 1st or 2nd Feb.


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    #905
    Eeeeno
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Eeeeno


    Balls
    Must have missed it by a week.
    Thanks, good luck on your test..


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    #906
    rx8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭rx8


    A new class also started yesterday, (Tuesday 29th ).
    Spotted them at the uniform stores getting kitted out. Don't know anything about what kind of licence they had.


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    #907
    Wolf219
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭Wolf219


    Does anyone know the time scale they get back to you after you passed the medical. Over 6 weeks ago, heard nothing back.


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    #908
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    Passed my cpc today. Got 2 questions wrong...

    It was ridiculously easy .. Would make one wonder why they do it. 74 quid to read 3 silly stories


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    #909
    burgermasters
    Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭burgermasters


    Do you not get the uniform the 1St day of training?? A group started the 29th and then a group starting the 4th of April seems a bit close?? Must be a week of class rooms and a week of driving?


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    #910
    macroman
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭macroman


    burgermasters wrote: »
    Do you not get the uniform the 1St day of training?? A group started the 29th and then a group starting the 4th of April seems a bit close?? Must be a week of class rooms and a week of driving?
    You'll go home on the first day like you've just been released from the Joy with a bin bag full of clothes!

    Training is a mixture of classroom and driving depending on availability of buses and trainers. It used to vary when I was there, somedays would be entirely classroom or driving, others it was classroom in the morning and driving in the afternoon. You'll spend most of the driving time going around the areas/routes you'll be operating and getting type trained on the different bus types in your allocated depot.


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    #911
    burgermasters
    Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭burgermasters


    macroman wrote: »
    You'll go home on the first day like you've just been released from the Joy with a bin bag full of clothes!

    Training is a mixture of classroom and driving depending on availability of buses and trainers. It used to vary when I was there, somedays would be entirely classroom or driving, others it was classroom in the morning and driving in the afternoon. You'll spend most of the driving time going around the areas/routes you'll be operating and getting type trained on the different bus types in your allocated depot.

    Thanks pal, that's kinda what I was thinking! Been driving coaches for the over a year now I am extremely excited starting with dublin bus as that's why I went for the licence in the 1St place... but at the same time I am a little nervous about it as it's a completely different kind of client/passenger.


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    #912
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    burgermasters wrote: »
    Thanks pal, that's kinda what I was thinking! Been driving coaches for the over a year now I am extremely excited starting with dublin bus as that's why I went for the licence in the 1St place... but at the same time I am a little nervous about it as it's a completely different kind of client/passenger.

    And a completely different type of driving too.

    What kind of coach work are you doing ?


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    #913
    burgermasters
    Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭burgermasters


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    And a completely different type of driving too.

    What kind of coach work are you doing ?

    Private work such as schools weddings tours shuttles big company days and the likes,


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    #914
    macroman
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭macroman


    burgermasters wrote: »
    Thanks pal, that's kinda what I was thinking! Been driving coaches for the over a year now I am extremely excited starting with dublin bus as that's why I went for the licence in the 1St place... but at the same time I am a little nervous about it as it's a completely different kind of client/passenger.
    I came from a tours background and had the same reservations. First few days in the garage you'll have a mentor driver with you to ease you in who will check back in on you a few times in your first year. You'll be sent back up to the training school a few times during your first year too for CPC and vigil vanguard training.

    Different kind of customer is right, you'll be carrying everyone from every background. Some people go out to make you're day difficult, don't rise to them and if in doubt call control.


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    #915
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    burgermasters wrote: »
    Private work such as schools weddings tours shuttles big company days and the likes,

    So it would be a different kind of driving altogether really.

    If you don't mind being clogged up in the city center 4 times a day and stopping every 30meters for a bus stop, traffic light etc all day then great but if the city gets to you or you don't like it , it can be an absolute pain.

    What I'm saying is really if you take this job; leave your current one on really good terms incase you want to go back.

    Good luck either way


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    #916
    burgermasters
    Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭burgermasters


    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    So it would be a different kind of driving altogether really.

    If you don't mind being clogged up in the city center 4 times a day and stopping every 30meters for a bus stop, traffic light etc all day then great but if the city gets to you or you don't like it , it can be an absolute pain.

    What I'm saying is really if you take this job; leave your current one on really good terms incase you want to go back.

    Good luck either way

    Thanks for that, don't think I'll mind traffic jams or stopping all the time to be honest? Just some horror stories you get told about assaults and that it going round and round ye know?


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    #917
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Assaults happen and you really need a thick skin.

    You will meet genuine decent folk but you will meet the lowest of them also as they have nothing to lose and don't have an ounce of respect for anyone.

    Be prepared to deal with absolute lunatics on and off the bus.


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    #918
    btmp75
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭btmp75


    Eeeeno wrote: »
    Balls
    Must have missed it by a week.
    Thanks, good luck on your test..

    Hi you have full D license?


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    #919
    Eeeeno
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Eeeeno


    No, just B licence
    Application went in actually mid feb so I guess another few weeks to wait till I hear word of written assessment date.


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    #920
    Eeeeno
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Eeeeno


    Advert on DB has been withdrawn.

    Do you think they have reached their quota ?
    Would current applications be processed or canned?


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    #921
    btmp75
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭btmp75


    today I attended the written test


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    #922
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    btmp75 wrote: »
    today I attended the written test

    How did you get on, it's dead handy isn't it.


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    #923
    btmp75
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭btmp75


    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    How did you get on, it's dead handy isn't it.

    Can't say truly. That multiple choice / sorting answers section was bit tricky.


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    #924
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    btmp75 wrote: »
    Can't say truly. That multiple choice / sorting answers section was bit tricky.

    Well once you get 1 and 4 right, one or two of the 2 and 3 can be a bit tricky.


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    #925
    kouffaley
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭kouffaley


    Hi guys
    Has anyone who did the written assessment on the 4th of mars heard something from dublin bus HR?


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    #926
    kouffaley
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭kouffaley


    Hi guys
    Has anyone who did the written assessment on the 4th of march heard something from dublin bus HR?


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    #927
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    I applied after I went to the trouble of all the D theory and L licence, and still have no responce from my application.. 3 weeks now.


    Is this the norm?


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    #928
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    I applied after I went to the trouble of all the D theory and L licence, and still have no responce from my application.. 3 weeks now.


    Is this the norm?



    Yes. Can be slow


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    #929
    kouffaley
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭kouffaley


    dashcamdanny wrote: »
    I applied after I went to the trouble of all the D theory and L licence, and still have no responce from my application.. 3 weeks now.


    Is this the norm?


    Expect 8 week , my application took around that time


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    #930
    btmp75
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭btmp75


    kouffaley wrote: »
    Expect 8 week , my application took around that time

    I applied in 1st feb. I got the response in mid-March. Written test was in 1st April. Waiting for result; fingers and toes crossed...


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    #931
    TheQuietFella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭TheQuietFella


    Eeeeno wrote: »
    Advert on DB has been withdrawn.

    Do you think they have reached their quota ?
    Would current applications be processed or canned?

    In your case canned!
    Having a D licence is a must when applying for these positions.
    Experience behind the wheel also helps.
    What were you thinking when you applied?


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