(12 Sep 2023, 4:35 am)Dan wrote Happy to be corrected by any of the Stagecoach drivers on this forum, but my understanding is that their drivers are paid for dead runs but not for the time they drive a van to a relief point at the start or end of their shift, or before and after their break.
For example, Stagecoach services 10/11 in Sunderland relieve at the Winter Gardens. From the moment the driver is scheduled to arrive at the Winter Gardens, s/he is then ‘off the clock’ (whilst travelling back to the Wheatsheaf).
This is incorrect. For any route changing in the town you get paid extra travelling time, but it's not on the clock (so if you take an hour or 5 minutes, you'll get the same amount travel payment). We also get paid time to sign on, cash in and check the bus out in the yard.
You are correct though that we are paid the whole time we are in charge of the bus including dead runs and sitting time.