Dublin Bus driver-Come at me

shodge

Such nonsense posted here about DB, if you want the truth ask a question!
(I can up load proof im a driver if needed)
The other half has gone out , im at home bored out of my mind so fire away with questions.

devnull

Wasn't this done once before and ended in tears?

Sam Kade

Op from the title I thought you wer a passenger on Dublin bus and the driver came at you

shodge

I dont know?
So many ignorant posts about DB, a bit of truth would not hurt!

shodge

Sam Kade wrote: »

Op from the title I thought you wer a passenger on Dublin bus and the driver came at you

Vice versa happens, passengers lose the plot when they realise they have got on the wrong bus and give the driver a load of grief.

vicwatson

How much is it to Dalkey from Trinity College?

shodge

vicwatson wrote: »

How much is it to Dalkey from Trinity College?

thats full fare, get a discount with LEAP

vicwatson

shodge wrote: »

thats full fare, get a discount with LEAP

What is? You haven't answered my question

shodge

A lack of question leads me to believe you think DB aint that bad, and most of your complaints are not relevant.

shodge

vicwatson wrote: »

What is? You haven't answered my question

e3.30 cash or LEAP discount

Triceratops Ballet

How many stops are in a stage?

Collie D

dottie_lottie wrote: »

How many stops are in a stage?

Good question. Never figured out the whole stage thing in all my years of using bus.

What's the oddest thing you've ever found left on your bus?

foxy06

What are you wearing and how long will your wife be out?

shodge

dottie_lottie wrote: »

How many stops are in a stage?

no one knows, some stages are every stop, some 2, some 3, as a driver we are told as a guide its 3 stops are a stage.
Its madness, where are the NTA?

shodge

Collie D wrote: »

What's the oddest thing you've ever found left on your bus?

Not my bus, but a wheel chair was left on a bus, the miracle bus.

shodge

foxy06 wrote: »

What are you wearing and how long will your wife be out?

T-shirt, shorts, she will be back when she is back.

Atlantic Dawn

What cc is the engine in your bus? What mpg would it do roughly? How many miles would the average DB bus clock up in a year?

shodge

Mr.S wrote: »

Why is real time utter ****e?

Why are timetables totally unrealistic and why haven't they been updated to reflect the chaos of the City Centre due to Luas works?

Why do we still have different fares and not a flat rate?

These are questions to ask the NTA, but us drivers get the blame!

Skerries

do you know what a tracker mortgage is?

shodge

Mr.S wrote: »

Why do most drivers not use the middle door? (when they are able too)

Why do drivers never kick off the junkies? Why don't they check free travel passes?

MIDDLE DOORS, super simple, if you get injured at centre door, driver is llegally responsible.
As for junkies, why risk life and limb? NTA dont care.
Check free travel pass, NTA dont care!, i go into it later

shodge

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

What cc is the engine in your bus? What mpg would it do roughly? How many miles would the average DB bus clock up in a year?

Drivers dont give a fuxx about this ,only bus nerd know this

foggy_lad

Why do some drivers accept notes(into the coin slot) as payment? is this not against the rules?

Stheno

Mr.S wrote: »

Eh? explain that?

Kinda sums up ops attitude he doesn't give a shot about giving good service to the passengers, and it's always someone else's fault

Db needs to be privatised

Collie D

Mr.S wrote: »

Eh? explain that?

I'd like to hear this too. Have you been told by management or is it a canteen myth?

shodge

Mr.S wrote: »

True! What are your views on the above though? DB might not be responsible for it, but they go along with it!

Not all but some running times on routes are fantasy, ie 60 mins all day running time,its the same rush hour and off peak, this is NTA problem but DB and Driver get the blame.

Ave Sodalis

Do you know the guy that does the 120 run? Graying man? He's really nice

shodge

Mr.S wrote: »

Eh? explain that?

Very simple, legally you trip and fall at front door= DB are responsible, you trip and fall at middle door= driver responsible.
What would you do?

Stheno

shodge wrote: »

Very simple, legally you trip and fall at front door= DB are responsible, you trip and fall at middle door= driver responsible.
What would you do?

So who told you that? It sounds like complete nonsense

pew

Why do you let people with suitcases go upstairs with them when there is room in the storage downstairs? This does my head in.

Collie D

shodge wrote: »

Very simple, legally you trip and fall at front door= DB are responsible, you trip and fall at middle door= driver responsible.
What would you do?

How are you responsible? Where has that come from? Is it company policy? If so, I'd understand not opening them but sounds bizarre? What's the union's take on it?

5rtytry56

What's you favourite route and least favorite route.

What's your favourite model of bus to drive?

shodge

foggy_lad wrote: »

Why do some drivers accept notes(into the coin slot) as payment? is this not against the rules?

Yes its against the rules, these drivers take the easy way out, instead of telling people coins only, they take notes, this is 100% wrong.
These notes are not counted, picked out and go into the pocket of those who empth the safes at the end of the day.

shodge

No one has asked for proof im a driver!
proof that the truth is not wanted around here?

themissymoo

shodge wrote: »

Yes its against the rules, these drivers take the easy way out, instead of telling people coins only, they take notes, this is 100% wrong.
These notes are not counted, picked out and go into the pocket of those who empth the safes at the end of the day.

But surely the money collected wouldn't add up with the amount of fares and tickets given out if people took the notes?

shodge

Collie D wrote: »

I'd like to hear this too. Have you been told by management or is it a canteen myth?

No this is legal fact!
The fact you dont like it, wont help driver when in court.

shodge

Stheno wrote: »

So who told you that? It sounds like complete nonsense

What would you do?

Collie D

shodge wrote: »

No one has asked for proof im a driver!
proof that the truth is not wanted around here?

Maybe we're taking you at face value.

Here's a couple of questions.

Are you the same driver who started a similar thread a couple of months ago? Think there might also have been one on the AMA forum.

If not, then is it official Dublin Bus policy for drivers to come on Boards and immediately go on the defensive?

Dr Turk Turkelton

How do you feel about your wife cuckolding you?ie she is out getting rode like a junkie on the red luas and your at home?

foggy_lad

shodge wrote: »

No one has asked for proof im a driver!
proof that the truth is not wanted around here?

There has been so many of these "I'm a driver" threads that were used to attack whole sections of society I doubt anyone cares or takes any comments on thread as gospel

Stheno

shodge wrote: »

What would you do?

Well any bus I've been on with centre doors they were used

shodge

pew wrote: »

Why do you let people with suitcases go upstairs with them when there is room in the storage downstairs? This does my head in.

Once you buy ticket, scan LEAP i dont care what you do, not my problem.
Why would i get involved?

vicwatson

vicwatson wrote: »

How much is it to Dalkey from Trinity College?

shodge wrote: »

A lack of question leads me to believe you think DB aint that bad, and most of your complaints are not relevant.

Huh?

vicwatson

shodge wrote: »

No one has asked for proof im a driver!
proof that the truth is not wanted around here?

Go on so. Do it. Prove you're a DB driver

Stheno

shodge wrote: »

Once you buy ticket, scan LEAP i dont care what you do, not my problem.
Why would i get involved?

Sums up the problem with Dublin bus. Majority of drivers imo don't give a ****

Collie D

Have you seen the film Speed? Do Dublin Bus have a contingency plan if this scenario happened on one of their buses?

shodge

Collie D wrote: »

How are you responsible? Where has that come from? Is it company policy? If so, I'd understand not opening them but sounds bizarre? What's the union's take on it?

Company= open all doors.
Driver asks,What happens when fall at centre door? DB say you should not have opened centre doors, it was your fault passenger fell.
If passenger fall at front door, driver in the clear, so why open centre door?
It only leaves driver open to be sued, DB wash there hands , say driver at fault.

shodge

themissymoo wrote: »

But surely the money collected wouldn't add up with the amount of fares and tickets given out if people took the notes?

how do you narrow it down to who is robbing?
6Am to midnight. 4 hours per shift, different drivers each day on each shift, how do you know if driver is honest or those who empty safe are?

Collie D

shodge wrote: »

Company= open all doors.
Driver asks,What happens when fall at centre door? DB say you should not have opened centre doors, it was your fault passenger fell.
If passenger fall at front door, driver in the clear, so why open centre door?
It only leaves driver open to be sued, DB wash there hands , say driver at fault.

I'm no lawyer but if company policy is to open door then I'm sure you have no liability.

shodge

Collie D wrote: »

Maybe we're taking you at face value.

Here's a couple of questions.

Are you the same driver who started a similar thread a couple of months ago? Think there might also have been one on the AMA forum.

If not, then is it official Dublin Bus policy for drivers to come on Boards and immediately go on the defensive?

Im to old to be internet savvy, DB policy is no talk on internet.Signs in depot.
"Dont tallk about DB on Internet"

shodge

Stheno wrote: »

Well any bus I've been on with centre doors they were used

Then why complain about it?

Stheno

shodge wrote: »

Im to old to be internet savvy, DB policy is no talk on internet.Signs in depot.
"Dont tallk about DB on Internet"

Well why are you then?

I can see why they have those signs, you've done nothing but affirm my belief it should be privatised entirely