(18 Nov 2013, 9:17 pm)aureolin wrote Back to the topic in hand though. I'd be surprised if a depot was paying for public liability insurance when it's not actually open to the public? Surely they'd stick with the bare legal minimum and just have employee liability cover? I mean come on. Insuring for public to have access to a working bus depot is not going to be cheap. As Dan has said, anything could happen to someone inside a bus depot. Even someone slipping.
Storing fireworks in the smokers room comes to mind.
I would imagine GNE have a pretty airtight and highly expensive and extensive PL insurance policy that covers the company and its workplaces.
For example, an airplane hanger is off limits to the public. Yet BA still pay a fortune in insurance policies for it. After all GNE aren't some backwater little provincial company, they are part of one massive global entity.
If there was no insurance etc, there'd be no chance control or a senior manager would authorise a depot changeover. At the end of the day here we're talking about 10 seconds as person steps off a bus onto another. They aren't been taken on a guided tour of Saltmeadows or running through the pits at Chester
The thing with Bazza, safety aside is that he illegally enters private property. That is bad enough. But whilst a driver or staff are aware of the big red bus with the passengers they aren't aware of someone with a camera ogling for a view of a new livery. So I don't accept it being as black and white as that