Unveiling the Truth: My Month as a London Bus Driver and My Earnings

How people survive with these wages 😮

Any updates still bus driving?

I'd love to have this job and I'm actually saving for it but it's hard for me to memorize routes

What if you need a piss?

£14? I’ll stick to driving on Uber

i drive a bus in rotterdam we get 19.1 euros an hour, and in the coming 2 years it will be raised till 21 euros, above that we get irregularity allowance

i thought you was cool unitll you started to ride a motorbike

So if there is a diversion & you don't use SAT NAV how are you meant to get around that???

121 !!! lets go

Hey man, hope you're doing well. Are you still currently driving?

ARRIVA

Cool that you work for Arriva, in north Stockholm where I live we used to have Arriva too! Though 2 years ago Transdev took over, but that’s whatever

560 before tax?

idk... looks annoying to me
I get my schedule of the lines in an app and the bus loc
so I just come to the bus parking lot, get on the bus and leave
don't need to talk to anyone or scan anything
its all on an app

You're like me,I ride my 900cc bike to work...I drive articulate and double decker buses beside the normal 12m bus.

how do you become a bus driver in london

swr i seen this guy when i take 121

Southbury road bus garage I see can you tell me whether you get paid for training

So ... your working day was from 4am to 1am the following morning ? so are you working 3 days a week ? or am I misunderstanding ?

I love your voice. Where are you from

do you always drive the 121 route ?

What you upto these days? How Do you have another source of income? How do you maintain while doing different jobs?

Hello I want to get a job as a bus driver anglan

Wow Arriva doesn't pay you enough man 😭 I'm from Edinburgh and Lothian pay £36.5k a year 💀

Bro you still driving ?

As a '' trainee '', what was your hourly rate - in training ?

Is it paid training?

It’s really interesting to see how different your garage works to our First Bus depot in West of England.

I’ve driven this DW516 bus when we had the route 106. Was a fast bus 👌🏽🤣🤣🤣

I drive buses in Norway, and my salary is 265.62 Kroner an hour ( about 20 pounds)... plus split shift compensation if your break is more than 1 hour, which is 324,55 kroner ( about 24 pounds each day) and I get more than 1 hour break every day, making my hourly pay 308.89 Kroner an hour. (about 23 pounds ) This is at a time when the Norwegian Krone, has lost big value to the British pound, so not long ago, this pay would be at about 25 pounds an hour when the currency was more in our favor. But that is what it is... On top of that, we get Ekstra for evenings, night, and weekend shifts... Now, people say it is expensive in Norway, but compared to London, it is not!! So that makes your pay for that responsibility way less than it should be... Remember, You can't close your eyes for 3 seconds, you have to be very focused all day long. Even pilots can close their eyes for a short moment without the plane crashing... You need to see when people run straight out crossing the road, car drivers cut you off, etc etc... But we have a lot more schooling before we can be a bus driver here in Norway... Stay safe!

Full props bro, I'm wondering which trainee package is better, I have interview for abbelio and go head for south London depots, abbelio apprenticeship is 6-8 weeks but go-head 52 week apprenticeship, both have depot near to me, any advice appreciated bro.

this is cool man, how come you chose to do buses over something like uber for example?

Bro amazing video

If the bus is dirty do you have to clean the bus like brush/sweep. and throw away all rubbish

Could not imagine a worse driving job !!
Driving around south London all day ?
NAAR !!

Such a dangerous job and they pay new drivers a mcdonalds wage

Route 51 without any overtime 45k year

I earnt just over £47000 last year doing rest days and taking my holiday strategically

The maths test for me at Brighton was tougher than i expected! But relatively straightforward and I passed and start training soon!

The Best time to joined buses back in 80s LT era.

Do london bus drivers get paid throughout their duty time including mandatory break times?

I started in London as a bus driver at 26 years of age driving a route Master for a year, great fun it was I got away with murder.Then onto one man buses,Christ I met so many great hook ups back then as a driver it was something else.i was going to stay for about a year, I stayed for twelve amazing years it was the best time in the eighty's and nightys I wish I could turn back time.anr I won awards for 12 years no accidents besdy times .

Fellow driver here. Working for first bus and driving in north somerset around the bristol area, country routes mostly.
It's got good and bad things about it. Not too busy with passengers and traffic jams are rare too. But u have to have steel nerves driving a double deck on narrow lanes while the quarry boys flying down towards u.
Salary wise we just went up to £16/hr since dec-24 ,that comes out about £500/week after tax without any extra, so not too bad.

I'm a bus enthusiast from Australia and I find this fascinating. Your garage (depot in our language) is very different and the driver's room is huge! There's so many differences despite it being the same job - for example your duties and duty cards (shifts and shift batts or journals to us) are just a single route all shift. For us, you usually do several routes split into two halves generally which are roughly 4-5 hours each. For example one shift may go from 0530 to 1650. Roughly 5-10 minutes is allocated before departing the depot to do the pre-checks in the yard then the bus goes out to where its first run is. For example it may do the 0549 route 162 service to Manly then do the 0618 service back up to Seaforth on the 162. Then the bus may run not in service to Warringah Mall where it would operate a 173X to Wynyard (Sydney). Being AM peak hour it would likely run direct from the city not in service back up to North Balgowlah where it would operate a 171X back to Wynyard. It may then run direct not in service to Skyline Shops, operate a 142 to Manly then do another 162 to Seaforth. Then it could do a 167 to Warringah Mall via the scenic route where by now it would probably be about 1000, time for a break. The break could be from 30 minutes to 2 hours. After the break it may go up to Palm Beach and operate a 199 to Manly then perhaps a 144 to Chatswood. It may then go on a 160X to Dee Why shops. From there it may run direct to the city and operate a 173X to Warringah Mall, run direct to Taronga Zoo and run a 100 to the city and back then run direct to the city, run a 172X to Warringah Mall and terminate there around 1635 where it would return to the depot and finish for the day. As for buses, the driver may be allocated bus 1611 for the first half however 1611 may go out into service while the driver has a break, so he could be put into bus 1952.

Two very different lifestyles in one job and I found this a fascinating insight into how different operations in London are compared to Australia.

a bus so dirty would be used only after beeing cleaned here.

What if you really need go to the toilet while you are driving a bus?

Bro could you advise me on app or book for bus cpc? Please
I failed my cpc theory test 3 times 😢

Yes

They didn’t even ask what 5-6 or 7x8 they only ask me on literacy is what time you will be at next bus stop. The things you said it wasn’t