F Great Eastern
Established Member
On a slightly different subject, do any operators have to provide vehicle location data for the entire journey or is it up to them? What about those who do not want to do it and are simply only turning on their ticket machines connection to the outside world when they need to process a card and then turning it off again just after?
I've seen buses not tracking on Bustimes that I've been on, someone goes to pay with a card on a Ticketer machine and gets the error beep, the driver turns the connection on, the card gets processed, the vehicle suddenly comes to live on Bustimes mid-journey etc. That's happened mostly on independent operators both in East Anglia and beyond.
Is that drivers who are deliberately trying to stop them being tracked by their employers, poorly trained employees who are starting a journey with something disabled, or an operational decisions being made by bus companies?
I've seen buses not tracking on Bustimes that I've been on, someone goes to pay with a card on a Ticketer machine and gets the error beep, the driver turns the connection on, the card gets processed, the vehicle suddenly comes to live on Bustimes mid-journey etc. That's happened mostly on independent operators both in East Anglia and beyond.
Is that drivers who are deliberately trying to stop them being tracked by their employers, poorly trained employees who are starting a journey with something disabled, or an operational decisions being made by bus companies?