(20 Nov 2015, 8:48 pm)DaveyBowyer wrote Agree about the statement regarding being run by the Unions. Here is an example and this is NOT ALL DRIVERS by the way, but a very small minority:
Driver goes deliberately slow and makes no safe or legal effort to keep the service running to time.
Arriva: Lead driver or reserve sent out, driver rarely faces action, management dare to implenent intervention measures in the event of the unions jumping in and do nothing more than send out a message asking drivers to run to time.
GNE: Driver monitored closely, very active control room, driver sent for redemial training if needed, clear zero tolerance message sent out warning drivers of the consequences of deliberately 'toading'.
One of the members on here work for Darlington depot which is operated by Arriva and will probably agree with me here, there's quite a few drivers at Darlington that go slow, yeah they've maybe had a accident or 2 or a incident, but the people higher up in Darlington depot are complete k***s, it feels that if you sneeze the wrong way you'll end up getting suspended or sacked, there's one driver that got suspended the other day for not knowing a route, so basically if any Darlington service is running late it's because there probably doing the job by the book, no point in rushing around its just a excuse for you to end up sacked or suspended, there's 101 reasons for being late but none for being early