Through the eye of the driver

15/09/2017 WebSupport Bus News, Features, Insight
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Above: This year Jonathan drove a Stagecoach Manchester Enviro 400MMC double-decker. Buses are allocated at random based on the order they arrive at the start line, and competitors normally don’t drive their own company’s vehicles in order to level the playing field and give everyone a fairer chance. Here, competitor number 17, Go-Ahead London’s Saverio Santulli is concentrating as he takes the same bus through the chicane. JONATHAN WELCH

This year’s Bus Driver of the Year competition was held in Blackpool on the first weekend in September. Previous winner and CBW friend Jonathan Welch took part, and tells us more about the weekend

Regular readers of CBW will remember that I wrote a few years ago about my experiences at the Bus Driver of the Year (BDoY) competition. You might remember too, that by coincidence, I won that year. So it was with a little trepidation that I said yes when CBW’s Editor asked if I might like to write something again this year. After all, I didn’t want to write the same story again! Thankfully, from CBW’s point of view at least, this year’s story will be a very different one. This year, it will not be a nice bedtime story with a happy ending.[…]

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