Bogey workings

Cyndaquil

I know bogey workings are used on Dublin Bus but do Bus Eireann use them at all? Either for city workings or long distance?

LXFlyer

Split shifts are used for many routes - just look at some of the rural routes where there is a morning working in one direction and an evening working in the opposite direction.

Vic_08

lxflyer wrote: »

Split shifts are used for many routes - just look at some of the rural routes where there is a morning working in one direction and an evening working in the opposite direction.

That would not necessarily mean that the driver on that route does nothing else, covering a run on another route may be part of that duty. It would of course depend on the location and there being any other work available.

There are not the same sort of split shifts as in Dublin Bus but some duties do have similar long gaps. On commuter routes some duties can cover both peaks with varying amount of work in between. On long distance routes the breaks can be anything from the bare minimum of around 1h (45m legal break + loading and recovery time) up to 5+ hours.

The agreement in BE is that the maximum unpaid break time during a shift is 2h45m. For most duties all breaks are unpaid until 2h45 is reached, after that everything else is paid at normal time until 7h48 paid is reached, after that overtime rates are paid.

In theory this means a driver can be at work for over 10 and a half hours before he will get a cent of overtime. In reality it is more complicated and can be even longer as drivers on rotas get paid a fixed weekly basic as an average of the whole rota.

Averaged out BE drivers work considerably longer shifts than DB. a 8-9 hour shift in BE would be considered short not so in DB where a 6 hour workout would be. An old joke in DB was that if a driver hated the wife he should transfer over to BE, that way he'd never have to see her again.