Buses can be a delivery service too

Chris_533976

A bus driver took passengers on a detour to deliver and unload a cooker and a chest of drawers for friends.

The items were loaded into the space reserved for prams on the Glasgow to Wishaw service run by Coakley buses.

Passenger Margaret Dymond, 28, said she was stunned and took pictures of the goods which were unloaded during a 10-minute detour in Motherwell.

Bus firm owner Eddie Coakley said the Polish bus driver had been given a warning and lost his bonus.

"It shouldn't have happened," Mr Coakley said.

"We brought in an interpreter who spoke to the Polish driver and explained that his behaviour was not acceptable."

The driver made the detour at about 1000 GMT on Monday.

Ms Dymond, a mother-of-four, from Viewpark, Lanarkshire, captured the scene on her mobile phone.

"There was a couple on the bus with a pushchair and a young child and they were having a job getting past," she said.

"That was bad enough but I was stunned when the driver took a right turn off the route and actually took them right to the door of the flat."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6457907.stm

patrickc

thats hilarious:D

SickCert

Isnt that our new heating system?:D

AlekSmart

Quote [Mr Coakley]

"We brought in an interpreter who spoke to the Polish driver and explained that his behaviour was not acceptable."

Hmmmmm....How did they manage to interview the lad for the job in the first instance....?

Wishbone Ash

Do the rural buses still deliver newspapers and day-old chicks?

I was on a Bus Eireann service in the 1980s and the driver stopped off to buy a new coat from a gents outfitters who were having a sale. When he returned, he even stood up and modeled it for us!

patrickc

I've often been on buses and the driver has stopped at a shop for himself, don't mind that too much

ballooba

The Bus Eireann bus I used to get home from school delivered the Evening Heralds to the shops along the way. That was 1995.

KC61

ballooba wrote:

The Bus Eireann bus I used to get home from school delivered the Evening Heralds to the shops along the way. That was 1995.

Some early morning Dublin Bus services (usually the garage ghost bus) also delivered papers until relatively recently!!!

Victor

Bue Eireann stopped its parcels service a few months ago.

KC61 wrote:

Some early morning Dublin Bus services (usually the garage ghost bus) also delivered papers until relatively recently!!!

Ghost Bus = bus drivers only?

Wishbone Ash

Victor wrote:

Ghost Bus = bus drivers only?

Years ago, they used to pick up ordinary passengers even though the particular service was not included in the timetable. I'm not sure about nowadays.

KC61

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Years ago, they used to pick up ordinary passengers even though the particular service was not included in the timetable. I'm not sure about nowadays.

Sorry Victor, I should have spoken in plain english!!!

There are a variety of buses that operate at the crack of dawn from various parts of the city (some in the timetable, some not) that meet in the city centre and then continue to the various Dublin Bus depots. Their main purpose was to bring drivers to work, but this need has diminished as most drivers now have their own car. However many still operate, but not delivering newspapers as far as I know!

dowlingm

Does Bus Eireann still have a parcel service? I'm pretty sure they used to - I think you had to collect it from the stop though.

(note BE sitemap refers to Coach Hire and Parcels but the link is broken and now there's only Coach Hire in the top menu. See also here:)
http://www.buseireann.ie/site/news_centre/press_centre.asp?action=view&news_id=189

Victor

dowlingm wrote:

Does Bus Eireann still have a parcel service? I'm pretty sure they used to - I think you had to collect it from the stop though.

(note BE sitemap refers to Coach Hire and Parcels but the link is broken and now there's only Coach Hire in the top menu. See also here:)
http://www.buseireann.ie/site/news_centre/press_centre.asp?action=view&news_id=189

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=52938813&postcount=9

SickCert

Victor wrote:

Bue Eireann stopped its parcels service a few months ago.Ghost Bus = bus drivers only?

Some are service cars now that go 'VIA' the depot, the first couple of 7's being an example.
At night there is a Dalkey ghost serving Dun laoghaire - drivers only.
Also a Bray ghost going straight down the N11, Clondalkin and two City bound from Donnybrook. Dont know about the other garages.