(09 Nov 2022, 5:59 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Another reason why this may not happen is because some in upper managerial positions see bus driving as some sort of vocational role, a role that you'll want to do full-time, probably for the rest of your life, which, in the past, might have been true. However, nowadays, unless you're a bus enthusiast, driving a bus is, for most, a means to an end until something better comes along. Not unlike shop-work or other jobs that some people dismiss as being 'menial'.

I dont think that is true. Why would a company pay somebody a full time wage if they are only needed to cover 2 hours in the morning  and 2 hours in the afternoon, both for schools? If they can pay somebody 25 hours a week instead of 39. I know which one they'll choose.

Also, if a number of late turns are set aside in a dedicated rota, that's fewer for the daytime drivers, that like to complain about lates. So an operator should be doing that.