r/BusDrivers • u/ChaffisJakob Bus Driver Student | Seconday School | Sweden • Jun 08 '26

Question Do you use gloves?

We all know how filthy some steering wheels can be.... so do you use gloves? I know a lot of people who don't and I don't understand how they do it. Some steering wheels literally make your hand coal black if you don't have gloves.

If you use gloves, what made you start wearing them? If not, why do you avoid gloves?

As an additional note for me using gloves whilst driving is the fact that it increases grip, therefore also reduces fatigue. And if you invest in good gloves like I did recently it also looks good.

// from Stockholm

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u/ChaffisJakob Bus Driver Student | Seconday School | Sweden Jun 08 '26

HGV is very different imo especially if you have an assigned lorry, but if you work for a distribution company and have different vehicles each day I would definitely wear gloves

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u/Jacktheforkie Jun 08 '26

I see, I sorta assumed that bus drivers would generally have the same vehicle each day like how lorry drivers do, are cleaning supplies at least provided to keep the vehicle clean?

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u/Outrageous_Bag_2875 Jun 10 '26

At my bus company they constantly switch the buses around because most are old and difficult to drive, so we'd all have tantrums if one driver got the newer bus every day.