Live From the Drivers Seat
It’s that time of the week again. After the events of last night I am feeling the need to do something good before tonight so I am going to get this post done and dusted in one sitting (yikes)
watfordgap but do you ever drive route 1?
Sadly no I don’t ever get to drive route 1. [...]
Wow its amazing. A milestone has been reached in this little blog of mine.
Sometime yesterday i reached the 1000 visit mark.
Its amazing as I did not ever think it would make it this far.
Thanks everyone and I will do my best to keep posting
bounder Can you drive a complete circuit of the eleven route without having to have a break?
Well as it turns out you can. This surprised me even more than I thought. A full circuit of the eleven route takes 2 hours 20 mins. Now we are allowed to do 5 hours 30 mins of driving [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the wonderful pleasure of driving one of our garages new Scania Omilink single deck busses in service. Now the only other time that I have driven one of these was when I was trained on it about six months ago when they started to arrive. It was a [...]
Today I read in the wonderful paper The Metro this article.
It’s amazing what goes on and I can only feel sorry for my poor fellow driver in London. The police asked him to lock the doors. Err, small problem officer. We cannot lock the doors. The only way is to keep our finger on the [...]
charlottecarey Q: do TWM recycle metros?
Now this one was asked last week but I needed to go away and do some research into the subject. The information that I found out was amazing.
The metro’s are all very old (some older than me WOW) and as such are very very difficult to get spare parts for. [...]
Ok so yet more questions to be answered and I am really enjoying this so lets get going.
hanuman so
the bus driver gets to work by bus but how does the driver of the first bus of the day get to work?
peteashton If you’re the last bus in at night, how do you get home?
Ok those [...]
Ah what fun this was. I remember it very well. It was shortly after I started driving and I was on a late night bus (what else) all had been quiet that night and I had just had to deal with the normal drunks and idiots. I was on my last run when I came [...]
Once again I only got a few questions so rather than picking one I will answer the lot
BobbieJane via twitter asked: What has been the best moment in your TWM career?
Now thats a tricky one. There have been several moments that rise about the rest. Usually when I get a “thank you” from a passenger [...]
