(08 Jun 2014, 4:56 pm)G-CPTN wrote I don't think it's as simple as that - I have known transport depots where the drivers have had the final say as to whether a vehicle was acceptable.

You might think that was unhealthy, but drivers have standards - and if those are allowed to slip then who knows what rubbish would be fended off onto the depot?

One transport manager said that his drivers would break the interior door handle resulting in an unsafe exit possibility if the vehicle didn't match up to their standards elsewhere.

I can completely understand a driver not wanting to drive a mechanically unfit vehicle, and I'd strongly urge them not to if I had any say. It's up to Arriva as a company to ensure that their engineering teams are maintaining vehicles to an acceptable standard in the first place. It doesn't matter if you have 4 depots or 50. You're part of one company and it should be fixed.

Drivers dictating to management what they're going and not going to do though is unhealthy, and shows a lack of organisational discipline. As for drivers deliberately vandalising company property... well... I thought we left that sort of thing in school?