Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(19/01/2020 03:16)Valandil Wrote:  Really interesting to see how allocating shifts works.
Out of interest, how far in advance do you generally find out what your shifts are?

If you're on a one of the set rotas such as 3day/4day/4late/5day/5 late, 6day then you can work out your shifts as far in advance as you like as they're printed on a big sheet with 60+ weeks on each, you just rotate weekly and when you reach the last week on it you go back to week 1. Just have to keep in mind that when the services change every few months its quite possible some shifts will change and rest days often change on the larger changes.

With spare to allocation drivers, they usually know their rest day pattern in advance but won't know next weeks shifts until Wednesday /Thursday the week before - ie for the week starting today (Sunday) I would have probably found out what my shift was about 3 days ago.