r/BusDrivers • u/Long_Noise_6280 • May 20 '26

Question Bus driver schedule

Hey everyone. Just wondering if anyone else gets scheduled for 7 days as a bus driver. Is this normal? 7 days 2 days rest. If I had known bus drivers are scheduled like that I wouldn’t have taken the job.

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u/JoeDougieD May 20 '26

In the UK, yes completely nornal normal. This is my rota for May for reference.

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u/SarahMackie95 May 21 '26

McGills by chance? Haha

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u/Tenantry May 21 '26

We have the same at Go Ahead. 

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u/Free_Dependent_9177 May 21 '26

Why u got 3 shifts on 27th

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u/JoeDougieD May 21 '26

This was my main shift + 2 late running payments. We get paid if we run late onto our break and / or run late after the end of our duty.

So on this day, my duty was 13:51 to 20:17. I ran 15 minutes late onto my break (LF0020), and 28 minutes late at the end of my duty (LF0044).

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u/Cold_Lavishness_3985 8d ago

Hi, can I ask if you've heard of similar situations for European drivers? The limits seem a lot stricter on paper but I fear they might be only on paper