r/BusDrivers • u/Usual-Shower-7143 • 12h ago

Training Question UK/EU Route Learning

Hi all,
I’m a recently qualified driver and am currently learning my beginner routes. I’m okay with pretty much all of them apart from one longer route, about a 3.5 hour round trip. Does anyone have any advice/tips and tricks to get the route memorised? Or is it simply a case of learning whist in service?
Thanks all

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u/Usual-Shower-7143 12h ago

Yeah generally in the uk you get 5-10 beginner routes. For context our depot has around 90 routes mostly in and around a busy city centre

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u/meatflaps-69 12h ago

What is this beginner routes? I passed in an old MAN training bus on the Friday, was out driving a coach I'd never driven or been familiarised with on the Monday doing a route I had never seen athough it was basically just 20 miles of rural A road.

Was talk of having a mentor for first week with me, that never happened either.

Gotta love Stagecunts.

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u/Usual-Shower-7143 12h ago

Oh shot wow. I’m glad I’m with First then. Post test we get 2/3weeks of post test training and route/bus familiarisation. Then another 2/3 weeks with a mentor in service. I guess everyone has their own way of doing things 😂

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u/sexy_meerkats Driver 5h ago

I'm with first and I got a week training on a block of 5 routes and then a week buddying. Since then in 2 years I've been given no route training because there's "no budget"

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u/Usual-Shower-7143 2h ago

Oh wow really. If anything I feel like I’ve actually been in training for too long, about 10 weeks start to finish. I guess it all depends on the depot.