Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(18/01/2020 20:44)M113 YKC Wrote:  At Bootle, part timers work 3 days a week on a roster with a selection of duties off the other rosters (so a variety of earlies/middles/splits/lates). The only exception to the rostered duties is if you want permanent lates or are on a facility for a reason AFAIK. Could be different at each depot though.

Its the same here. Majority of drivers work full time ie the 4 day rota/5day rota average 37hours per week. Some work 6 day rota. There are a number of part timers, most are on the 3 day rota however there is a special 'Facility' rota, ie a couple of drivers only work Friday/Saturday night same shift every week etc.

As previously mentioned, there are also full time late rotas for 4 day and 5 day, for those wishing to do lates only. All other rotas are mixed and have lates every 5 weeks roughly.

There is also a 'Spare to allocation' rota, where you know your rest days, but you have to check your duties each week as its basically random shifts for holiday cover etc.

If you want to be assigned a specific type of shift (say for example you are on the 5day rota but dont really want any early shifts) you can ask the allocator if he can try and give your duties away to spare to allocation drivers and try and replace them all with middles where possible - they try to accomodate as best they can.

Some 5 day drivers prefer to work longer shifts (ie 10hour shifts from the 4 day rota to get a few extra hours in) , so they sometimes help with this too.

In our depot there are a few couples, ie Mr and Mrs work in the same place,I believe a number of these are on spare to allocation and where possible given shifts with similar times to eachother so they can share a car and also match rest days but of course not always possible.

You can of course swop shifts and rest days with other drivers if you need to start after a certain time on a certain day, have an appointment etc.

Hope this helps!