(06 Jul 2021, 2:24 pm)GNE6312 wrote That's shocking. GNE should be held accountable for that. If they have enough money to pointlessly repaint & rebrand buses then they have enough to pay staff. Besides stagecoach have no brands and most their buses are bog standard yet they still get passengers. Arriva have a relatively old fleet with few liveries (only MAX, the 2 Sapphire liveries & their 3 corporate liveries) yet they get alot of passengers so they can't say branding brings passengers. Not to mention they could have saved the money to pay staff by not replacing the 15 plate buses on the red kite last year.
Not that it helps the bus drivers' lot, but new vehicles, refurbishment/repainting will be capital costs. Pay doesn't come from capital.
(06 Jul 2021, 2:36 pm)JP6004 wrote
I wouldnt turn my nose up at it. New starters at my current kind-of not anymore work place was only £17,500
For some people it they can make it work. Throw in a mortgage, couple of kids maybe and a bit of debt and it won't go far enough.