tim-b wrote:Hi...they are incentivised to drive between their set routes
Regulation (EC) 561/2006 "CHAPTER III LIABILITY OF TRANSPORT UNDERTAKINGS
Article 10
1.
A transport undertaking shall not give drivers it employs or who are put at its disposal any payment, even in the form of a bonus or wage supplement, related to distances travelled and/or the amount of goods carried if that payment is of such a kind as to endanger road safety and/or encourages infringement of this Regulation."
Articles 1 and 2 make it clear that it applies to either passengers or goods. If you suspect this to be happening then report it to the ATCs as I mentioned above
Regards
tim-b
yeah but I suspect they know that rule and know exactly how to word what they were doing to get around it, I dont know the full ins and outs of their deal obviously, I doubt the driver was paid any extra as such, but the coach company dispatcher who chatted with the driver seemed definitely to feel the number of coach loads of passengers they were able to send out and get a tick in the box for from the train company people, was a key metric for them, and the more ticks they got,the better, that might not count as an explicit or even implicit way of saying get back here as soon as you can so we can fill you up again, but that seemed to be the way it was working.
but it may have changed it was a few years back now, as the experience was enough to put me off travelling whenever bus replacements were likely, because the guy drove like a complete nut case, I actually was sitting there praying we didnt encounter any cyclists on the back roads, because I dont think theyd have stood much chance. Even on the dual carriageway the guy was tailgating cars at ludicrously close distances given the speed and trying to get them to speed up, even in average speed limit camera spots. I was quite glad to arrive in one piece frankly