Geordie driver
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Watching the local coaches picking up the kids in my village this morning, it is clear most of the have a manual gearbox. I learned in a manual Bristol Lodekka as my company still had a number of manual buses, mostly stottie boxes and some coaches used on rail replacement by local service drivers. Pre dereg they wouldn't employ anyone with an automatic licence. This went out the window post dereg as they were short of drivers, it meant those of us with full licences would have a nice new oympian taken off us and given a dreaded LH, caused no end of bad feeling.
According to a mate of mine who had an automatic licence they no longer differentiate and he can now drive a manual PCV, seems a bit unlikely to me? I don't imagine many people take their test in a manual vehicle now as most service buses appear to be full auto and that is what the big companies want.
According to a mate of mine who had an automatic licence they no longer differentiate and he can now drive a manual PCV, seems a bit unlikely to me? I don't imagine many people take their test in a manual vehicle now as most service buses appear to be full auto and that is what the big companies want.