another home made single decker in Stockport looked on Google maps and the signs are clear enough
And they run the same routes every day!how would they go on doing different runs every day?
Here is a cracker from just the other day from the famous cook street lorry basher bridge. It was a stalkers that done. That bridge gets hit more than i get hot dinners 
See when i sat an interview with firstbus years and years ago they paid double decker drivers like a £1 more. Do they still do this?
merc0447:
See when i sat an interview with firstbus years and years ago they paid double decker drivers like a £1 more. Do they still do this?
Not heard of that down south. We didn’t have single and double drivers though. You just drive what was allocated to your run. We did get an induction booklet with all the low bridges in our area.
The most common culprits for doing this were fitters on road test. Used to happen 1-2 times a year in a fleet of 400 buses.
Perhaps there’s a new series of on the buses coming out soon lol!
I can’t believe he was off-route if he had passengers on. Two things suggest themselves to me - either it’s normally a single-decker route and a double deck was substituted, and the driver just forgot - or, if you look at the bridge markings, if they normally come through but in the centre of the road. I don’t think he’s had time to pull over and park neatly on the left in the few yards since the bridge, so I think he’s come under the bridge in the left hand lane.
Agency driver?
If a bridge gets struck a lot why cant they put one of those warning devices up further down the road like they have at the drive-thru t McDonalds?
merc0447:
See when i sat an interview with firstbus years and years ago they paid double decker drivers like a £1 more. Do they still do this?
These days, you get £1 an hour extra for getting umbrella, rather than losing your roof. It’s not all it’s cracked out to be either way. 
Has that bus got leather seats on the top deck. WTH??
He’s done em a favour it was an 2007 model probably due for replacement at that age. 
Probably thought he was James Bond in Live And Let Die 
ETA: he’s not the only one to do it
dailymail.co.uk/news/article … ridge.html
ROOM ON TOP.
A bus isnt old til its 20.Its often the case that the driver is younger than the jalopy he drives.
When I was at school, the buses had a thing like a periscope so the driver could catch us smoking, maybe they need to bring those back, it may remind him or her that there is another deck above him.
Wheel Nut:
When I was at school, the buses had a thing like a periscope so the driver could catch us smoking, maybe they need to bring those back, it may remind him or her that there is another deck above him.
They were replaced with cameras and monitors around 1999
Having a stairwell behind your head was usually clue enough you were in a double decker.
I used to drive 06 plate Dennis Alexander D/D bus with good old periscope
This is on a regular route, can only assume that the driver is usually on a single decker. This bridge is well know in Stockport,and also bloody well signed too. Think there is now a vacancy on the trans peak route.