(14 Aug 2016, 9:41 am)South Tyne Lad wrote I understand where your coming from, But this driver was stood outside having his Cig while talking to me at the same time.
Once I was aloud on the bus we were sat in Eldon Square for a good 7 Mins before we left.
In this case he would've had a lot of time to do what GX03 posted.
Thats happened to me before at Eldon Square on the old 74A i had to get one of the people from eldon Square to double check and he told the driver the ticket i had was valid for travel