Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

(06/04/2017 23:10)Lynx Wrote:  Is it a necessity for drivers to be type-trained on certain buses before being allowed to drive them? I knew about driver familiarisation but didn't think it would prevent a driver from driving a certain bus if it hadn't been completed.

No idea what the rules are nowadays, but not knowing the type certainly wouldn't have prevented a driver from being allocated an unfamiliar bus when I was a driver - witness the time that I turned up to the layover area and couldn't find the master switch, and also couldn't radio control to ask where the master switch was, on account of not being able to find the master switch... fortunately the next incoming P&R driver was able to tell me! I also recall assisting at least two drivers who had wondered what a particular rocker switch did on Marshall Darts, only to find that it started calling out very loudly something along the lines of "VEHICLE UNDER ATTACK - CALL THE POLICE", and no-one had told them the location of the small octagonal button to turn it off