Historically there was a bit of mutual respect between drivers and depot fitters - especially if it wasn’t a super depot.  Those were the days when you could call your own depot for advice.  There was also more experience in drivers knowing their vehicles.  To give an example on a scania solar, if you have an abs light (depending on the age it could be a yellow or red one), the vehicle is still drive able even if it won’t reset, you just have to bear in mind that with the light on it also disables the retarder so braking is a little more elongated.  Most experienced drivers would have no issue with finishing the journey and it getting taken off at the end of the trip.  But then as super depots appeared the that relationship was diluted, and as another example, cold buses rarely got took off and addressed often if it got taken off at the metro it was driven straight to blaydon and replaced another fault without the cold bus being fixed.  This sort of issue could go on the days or weeks, passing buses between depots where shared services so that the other depot gets the problem bus.  So in the end you end up having to get stroppy and saying I’m parking the bus at the metro - up to you whether you want to replace it or not.  You then get the fitter coming with a right arse on because he’s been told a completely different story to the one you’ve already relayed to control, and suddenly you’re the problem.  I wonder how long the fitters from the then defunct shearings lasted after they were taken on?