(18 Nov 2013, 6:44 pm)andreos1 wrote The H&S at Work Act is almost 40 years old and even though there has been fine tuning of it and the introduction of endless amounts of red tape, handovers, swaps and even being parked in a depot when those have been happening, have gone on for years.
There have been mentions of it happening on this forum (me at Sunderland Road and Philly, Fozz at Philly and gmitchellhill at Washington).
I am aware of buses on Newcastle expresses at the Galleries diverting via Washington depot and changing vehicles after seeing it and hearing about it from friends/family too.
Whether it is right or wrong, who are we to judge.
It has happened and until someone states otherwise, it will keep happening.
It's happened on 2 occasions at Washington Depot, The First was when the Driver took ill while operating the old W3 to Coach Road in 2009 when I was on my way to College, and she was sick at the Wheel so we had no choice but to change inside the Depot. On the second occasion it was a Simple Driver Swap at Concord on the M1, Again on my way to College, And the other Driver hadn't turned up, So we went to the Depot where there was still no Driver, Turned out said Driver went to Washington Galleries as he thought he was doing the X1 rather than the M1, So we swapped Buses and continued our Journey, I would assume we swapped so the other Driver could get back on time.