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Recent content by baz962

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    EWR, Universal and Wixams

    They stop some of the ic at Luton airport parkway. Not a lot admittedly.
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    Motorway Driving - too many idiots

    Does that apply/are they fitted to non UK vehicles.
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    GTR- Depot Operations Controller Mobile - Bedford Depot (14/04/24)

    Not a bad package for a depot driver , I'm almost tempted.
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    Motorway Driving - too many idiots

    Also with you bringing up vans. A van can have a speed limit ten miles an hour less than cars , unless car derived and also over two tonnes laden. Most transit drivers seem oblivious to that.
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    Motorway Driving - too many idiots

    I agree. Pretty much every taxi I get to or from London does it and it amuses me. I do wonder if I should say something.
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    Shortest UK car number plate you've seen

    I'm putting that plate on my 360 :D
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    EMR MML services on Sundays too crowded - what should be done?

    Well perhaps if the government wakes up or hands the reigns back. Or maybe a change of government , but who knows.
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    EMR MML services on Sundays too crowded - what should be done?

    Probably not. Quite a fair chance they might not enter service until the driver pay and terms and conditions dispute is resolved either.
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    Once a train driver can you relocate?

    Very much changing back we believe. Adverts for qualified very recently include Hull trains, OAO of course. Avanti , Thameslink/Great Northern , Northern , Lner , EMR , Wmt , TFW , Chiltern , ScotRail. I don't know if it's true but rumours around our mess are that with the added time of street...
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    Eurotunnel recruiting Drivers/Train Captains for Folkestone

    If it goes above 60 , although that's less than many TOCs it's also better than a fair few.
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    Chiltern - Apprentice Train Driver - Bletchley (06/03/24)

    Sometimes the mmi is first and other times the dmi.
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    Shortest UK car number plate you've seen

    I saw that reg. Believe it used to be owned by an ex racing driver.
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    Shortest UK car number plate you've seen

    I know the owner of the reg CR1 1712172101 Most definitely regular. See it all the time.
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    Starting in the railway industry

    I started as a trainee driver one month before my 48th birthday. I had done many years of just temporary work or self employed and had virtually no people for references. My then current job gave me a reference and they accepted one from my old accountant. Plenty of time for you yet bud. Good...

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