(23 May 2021, 7:31 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote Aha I'm gonna admit this. I've had that on tons of drivers. Especially when I used to get the 53 to Palmersvill then the metro to town then the 25 to Eighton Banks. The 25 driver would always say that I couldn't get on.
Another case being using a day rover on the 308 to Whitly Bay and then the 42 from Benton Asda to Wallsend. Yea I've had a few times the driver have said its not valid. All because of the "who issued" the ticket
All of this would be easily solved by having an ‘Explorer’ logo (or whatever other ticket it is) rather than the operator logo at the top of such tickets. That would cut out 90% of these misunderstandings with drivers.
As a driver myself half of the problem is simply the amount of tickets they have to sell and accept, all with differing rules over times, zones and whatever else you can find to add in!
When I was at Arriva Stockton for example I worked out we sold 27 different weekly tickets on our network. It’s simply impossible to remember all of the different rules for each one!
A simple conversation with most will point out that it’s not an operator specific ticket though. Even better would be to remove the paper ticket completely which is what they have done in West Yorkshire where you can get a day ticket on smartcard which instantly scans on all operators machines with no problem (so far!).
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