(22 Jul 2020, 10:20 pm)tyresmoke wrote Yes, have been for coming up 10 years now. Still enjoy it, even though I’m mainly on coaches now we do the same work ie school services every day - some services hopefully coming soon. I stand by my comment of its as easy or as hard as you want to make it.

Fair enough, but I disagree with your comment in bold. Turning a blind eye to an 18 year old asking for a child fare is one thing but letting gangs of teenagers or drunks act like idiots and not getting involved as it's the easy thing to do is quite another. Obviously if you're mainly driving coaches for a private operator you won't get much bother like that I'd imagine. Yes I may be on a quid or so more an hour than you but it hardly makes up for some of the crap and abuse we face nearly every day.

And before you say "Why don't you leave then?", I'd love to but the jobs market is on its arse for obvious reasons at the moment so not much scope of a new employer for the forseeable future......