(31 Jan 2021, 3:58 pm)Malarkey wrote No wonder when their drivers stand not socially distanced from one another at the top of Haymarket smoking/vaping which to me shows a lack a care for not just themselves, but shows a lack of for their respective families, the company the work for and the passengers they provide a service to. I honestly think their depot management need to look into this further as clearly they are not following the rules.

Makes you wonder what measures have been put in place in the meal rooms at Haymarket/Durham along with at the depots, As I don't see a spare bus being used for meal breaks like Go North East have at various Bus Stations across the region.

(31 Jan 2021, 7:35 pm)Malarkey wrote Then the company should be putting further measures in place to ensure all members of staff are working within a safe working environment which from what you have just posted is not the case, again as noted in my previous post Go North East have placed their Driver Training Fleet at various Bus Station to provide extra space to ensure staff are kept within a safe environment whilst on a meal break.

As for having breaks sat in your car in the car park, why not if it ensures your and your families safety along with that of your work colleagues.

I work in a Call Centre which when fully staffed pre-covid had 800 people working within the office, now we are probably at 50% of that due to those working from home and our Canteen isn't the biggest either however we have managed to make that area socially distanced with all tables which would normally seat 6 seating 2 and are all 2 metres apart, on the call floor everyone is sat 2 metres apart to ensure it is covid secure and with those measures in place along with regular cleaning of the office throughout the day we have had 0 cases of covid-19 in the 10 months we have been in this awful pandemic, seems to me the company you work for are not doing enough to protect it's staff.

To be honest in any see any similarities between your call centre analogy and driving a bus, do you get random member of the public dropping into your call centre every three or four minutes, handing you cash that’s been god knows where before they hand it over. Do you have the same said members of the public coughing all over the place and if they are wearing a face covering 99% of the time it’s incorrectly. No I thought not. The problem here is that the company aren’t interested in driver’s safety and and well-being it’s all about lining the pockets of the shareholders. I could give you numerous examples on request of the pure idiocy of the general travelling public. I’ll give you this one as a starter for ten. The service I was driving this morning has a terminus loop at both ends, my bus was empty, one passenger boarded at a stop around the loop. At the terminus timing point a lady boarded with her exemption card round her neck like a medal of achievement. Where did she sit ?? That’s right of the other 38 seats on the bus she chose the one directly behind the bloke who had gotten on two stops earlier. This is the kind of stupidity we as drivers are having to deal with on a daily basis.