Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West

(24/09/2020 09:58)WhiteVanMan Wrote:  Trying to keep any vehicle clean at this time of year, is near impossible, due to the spray from dirty road surfaces.


It is the driver legal responsibility, to ensure that the vehicle s/he is driving has oil and water in it. If drivers are not checking they vehicles, which is a condition of their LGV/PCV driving licence, then the management need to crackdown on this.

Just to clarify. Normally your right but I have several former colleagues who now work at Diamond and the supervisors do regularly instruct drivers to continue driving with bus faults. One at Eccles on the 217 back in May. Low coolant light flashing constantly, informed the depot supervisor and was told to carry on as there was nobody to bring another bus out to him.

Another working at Bolton was informed by another driver that a large pool of oil was forming under his bus in Piccadilly. Again he was told to continue until ‘the wheels stopped turning’. Yes it’s the drivers licence but when your given an instruction by your superior what do you do.