(20 Aug 2023, 8:14 pm)nova347 wrote So are the buses kept at Alnwick? Plus do drivers change between Alnwick and Ashington? Can you refuse to do the X15/X18 and just do like 35, the 1 etc?

Yes about 5 or 6 buses are kept at Alnwick overnight. Alnwick and Ashington based drivers may drive the same buses at stages across the day, but am Alnwick driver will always finish their duty in Alnwick and vice versa for an Ashington driver.

No, you can't 'refuse' to do a duty, it doesn't work like that.

If a rota exists that is made up of just services that you prefer, you can request to go onto that rota, but in most cases it is more efficient to build rotas with everything the depot runs within them, so most likely you need to route learn pretty much everything.

You can swap duties with another driver if they agree, that is permissible and is probably the best way to get around doing things you like rather than what you don't.