(30 Dec 2014, 10:07 pm)mb134 wrote Yeah I'd agree it would be quicker, it's just I was thinking more along the lines that if I was a driver in a freezing cold bus the last thing I'd want is somebody coming up to me telling me it was cold because there'd be pretty much nothing I could do?
Just thought actually, do drivers have a heater in the cab, or do they rely on the rest of the bus? If they do have one it'd probably change my thinking as then they'd have no way of knowing.
Yes drivers have their own 'heating' (demisters) - at my depot if a bus is cold we can ring up and request a changeover after a set amount of time. One time I had a freezing cold Cadet on 17s and inspector told me to ring engineering and sure enough they met me in Thornaby with another bus (1753!)