Manchester bus franchising

[Mayneway]

RE: Manchester bus franchising

(23/04/2023 21:51)Mrboo Wrote:  Does not have to be that way. GAL commercial has over 100 drivers who are on 0hrs and some on PT who do work schools and rail replacement and private hire. lots of the drivers who are on 0hrs are older drivers who only want to do few days a week. Often GAL don't have the spare buses not the drivers for commercial jobs. I had to get 3 deckers at weekend from another depot as needed 25 buses and often the depots get upset when commercial asks for TFL buses.

Now I know Stagecoach don't allow 0hrs so lost lots of drivers due to it. but if you have drivers wanting to be 0hrs let them. Now Stagecoach could keep their full-timers for schools and rail replacement. As I feel they will have issues finding Monday to Friday term time drivers now they could lend from other areas for short term but what happens if Stagecoach loses more depots?

But your talking about London. This is Manchester where there’s a very big shortage of drivers. I know of several companies including the one I work for who constantly are trying to recruit school bus drivers because the majority of drivers don’t want to do them.