(20 Nov 2015, 11:59 pm)Stuartphin1639 wrote One of the members on here work for Darlington depot which is operated by Arriva and will probably agree with me here, there's quite a few drivers at Darlington that go slow, yeah they've maybe had a accident or 2 or a incident, but the people higher up in Darlington depot are complete k***s, it feels that if you sneeze the wrong way you'll end up getting suspended or sacked, there's one driver that got suspended the other day for not knowing a route, so basically if any Darlington service is running late it's because there probably doing the job by the book, no point in rushing around its just a excuse for you to end up sacked or suspended, there's 101 reasons for being late but none for being early
That's a bit ridiculous that, sacked for sneezing the wrong way. And knowing a route, aren't all drivers given adequate familiarisation? I understand the role of the Unions to be there and protect the drivers in the event of such things, but deliberately running late (doing 40 on a clear NSL single carriageway and doing 25-30 in a 40 as I've seen before) is unfair on:
- The lead drivers who have to cover the next outbound.
- Passengers who are delayed who could've got there on time but ended up running avoidably late.
I remember one driver going so slow (I won't name the route but you'll probably know by the description), that 2x competing GNE services overtook him and the sister Arriva service also did.