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0925 is the actual start point of passes, as it allows 5 minutes for boarding time to depart at 0930. Faffing around, imo, will only annoy the driver enough to get them to report you and potentially refuse you service next time.

I can verify that the driver was correct, I was a driver for TB for a few years recently, it's in the drivers handbook, I'm not sure whether it's a term of the bus pass or not, but the driver was definitely correct. I even had to show the handbook page to another driver once as they didn't...

I'm sure the X38 night buses run by Trent Barton used to have music playing through speakers on the bus, it was stopped and passengers wanted it to return but I don't travel on them and don't think it did come back, from what I saw on social media.

The most unbelievably stupid kind of human being.

Re double deckers on TB, its partly to do with passenger safety, if there's only a single deck, the driver can have an idea of what's happening, not just a view on a camera screen. Which makes sense in my view.

Trent Barton buses have certain concessionary passes that aren't accepted by the machines so the drivers have to manually log the journey. More an inconvenience than anything. I can't remember which areas of the country the passes are from that aren't accepted.

The company I worked for did have a button on the INIT MACHINE to notify the office that the bus was full, but that was removed. No destination board message as far as I can recall during my time there.

I can verify that stopping usually results in an argument, after stopping a few times and everything being hunky dory, waiting customers being accepting of the bus being full, I stopped and did it for the final time before I started driving past shaking my head, as a customer boarded despite me...

Just looked at the Black Cat (Derby to Mansfield), that says 1 hr 52 departing 0830. Can't be many longer than that surely? Edit - 2hr 07 min departing 1530

I'd think most people don't want a potential drink driving arrest to deal with if they fancy a few bevvies during the nice weather.

On the buses being busy, it's mainly because concessionary passes aren't accepted on the Red Arrow now, as I'm sure everyone knows, it's pushed those people onto the next fastest bus between Derby and Nottingham, the i4. They don't like using double deckers, based on passenger safety, the...

Goes light out of there.

Indigo is operated out of Loughborough as well

The ones I drive don't cut out at the lights, but at the bus stops when the doors have been opened with the handbrake on. Maybe there's 2 different types, but I'd have thought buses cutting out at traffic lights, or potentially a junction if using the handbrake, is dangerous, if not...

If there's a fault with the system, then it can cut out at traffic lights. But it's meant to only cut out when the handbrake is on, and the doors have been opened. Cutting out with just the handbrake on is very very rare, and usually results in the bus restarting itself within a couple of...

The engine cuts out when the parking brake is on, and doors are opened. Then restarts automatically when the doors are closed. Imagine it cutting out at traffic lights with just the parking brake on. Then the driver racing to get going again.

No idea, sorry. I also think it's the last bus back to Derby, as the Red Arrow and Indigo go before. The Indigo definitely does, but I'm not 100% on the Red Arrow, I know it's not 24 hour on Sunday nights though.

The issues with giving an explanation when it's eventually turned up, is that that takes extra time, which puts drivers even more behind schedule. I literally say sorry I'm late, and if I get chance I'll shout down the bus the reason to tell more than one person at the same time but it's not...

I4 in Derby /Nottingham, the last Sunday night journey leaves Nottingham for Derby at 2320. In the week it's 2300.