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It has happened to me before, but the worst that happened was a half hour walk from a 24 hour supermarket back home again.
But has anyone here ever been in a situation where they, for example, intended to get the last bus back from one town or city to their home town or city late in the evening, from the bus station, stand waiting at the appropriate stand their bus departs from but it never turns up and because the enquires office is closed until the morning, the only people they can ask about it are the other drivers nearby who cannot help in any way?
Or the bus turns up, but halfway home, out in a rural setting, the bus breaks down and the driver simply says you'll have to make arrangements to make your own way home ie a taxi?
When I've used the last bus of the evening from Hull to Scunthorpe, the driver once said because it's the last one, if it breaks down, arrangements would be made to get another one out to get everyone back, there's no way they would leave everyone stranded, but I know that each company or opco's policy can vary wildly.
But has anyone here ever been in a situation where they, for example, intended to get the last bus back from one town or city to their home town or city late in the evening, from the bus station, stand waiting at the appropriate stand their bus departs from but it never turns up and because the enquires office is closed until the morning, the only people they can ask about it are the other drivers nearby who cannot help in any way?
Or the bus turns up, but halfway home, out in a rural setting, the bus breaks down and the driver simply says you'll have to make arrangements to make your own way home ie a taxi?
When I've used the last bus of the evening from Hull to Scunthorpe, the driver once said because it's the last one, if it breaks down, arrangements would be made to get another one out to get everyone back, there's no way they would leave everyone stranded, but I know that each company or opco's policy can vary wildly.