(17 May 2014, 10:21 pm)Marcus wrote I was talking to a Chester driver this morning while waiting for my X2 to Durham, and we spoke about the route learning. We moved onto the new vehicles for the year, and when I mentioned the Citaro's for the Lime, he told me he had driven them before.
I asked him how come, and he told me he had driven them along at Gateshead (when Sunderland Road was still open). I asked him what he had done there, and he said he had done overtime there on The Loops at Gateshead and The Fab56 at Deptford.
So, this thread is to discuss why overtime is at different depots to where the drivers are from, obviously considering that overtime must be available at their Home Depots anyway.
Most overtime is at the drivers home depot, there are times when another depot is short of drivers on a short term basis and drivers from other locations can go there to work, but this is not the norm.