To be very impressed by this coach drivers zero tolerance stance?

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The driver was a woman, I recall.

Incredible

Our local bus company now has these announcements, was surprised to hear, some one was playing videos without headphones and next minute this announcement said please be courteous and wear headphones or something like that. Same voice as bus stop announcements so obviously added this for the driver to press. Also heard another one asking not to vape. Also now announce when last stop, or if stop is closed or diverting. Bus drivers must have a long list to pressand things they can announce.

I was on a coach trip in California many years ago. At the start the driver announced that at every stop he would tell us what time to be back at the coach and he would not wait for latecomers. He was true to his word and as we pulled away from the first stop, two couples could be seen running after the coach, frantically shouting and waving their hands. He ignored them and drove on. It was a beautiful moment for the rest of us who had been on time.

I am with @sidebirds , which man are you talking about ?
Before you get sarky perhaps you should read @SmellsLikeTeenArmpit 1st post.

@SmellsLikeTeenArmpit I agree with other pp , definitely send a email to NX praising the driver for standing up to inconsiderate passengers and her upholding NX policies.

Ok no solids, but what about diarrhoeic liquids that come out of your arse?

And the award for strangest boast of the day goes to….

Good on her! Recently I plucked up courage to ask someone on a train who was on loud speaker phone conversation ( apparently with his wife) to not be so loud, surprisingly he complied immediately . I think we are often too timid.

It's great until someone's earphones are leaking a horrible repetitive, tinny bumf bumf bumf the whole way.

Haha brilliant! NannyNoDumps 😆

If this is not company policy you could get the driver into trouble. I would email them without including the details of the journey and tell them how much you appreciated the drivers stance. I would also tell them why you have withheld the details of the journey.

Oh at least read the thread if you're going to try and be sarky 🙄

which 'man'? 🤔

👏 👏 👏 to the driver

I've had this before on a national express coach and it is one of the many reasons I've decided to travel by coach instead of train nowadays.

Definitely, definately contact them. First off the driver will appreciate it but secondly it will enforce that most people hate the selfish twats who are too stupid to figure out how headphones work and maybe it will encourage NX to make it an enforceable policy.

I commute by train and almost daily get annoyed by people watching videos/listening to music with either no headphones or shit "leaky" headphones where you can still hear the albeit slightly muffled noise from 5 rows away. Or having loud phone conversations. Despite the fact that a large proportion of the journey is over ground, the wifi/phone connection is patchy....so often you get someone repeating - multiple times - parts of the convo the other person couldn't hear.
But no way of monitoring passengers on a train

I would definitely email but not go into too much detail, just mentioning how the driving ensured the comfort of passengers for the duration.

Re using the toilet, if you're a regular coach goer for football aways you know it's an absolute cardinal rule not to shit on the bus. Nobody is talking about people who have issues out with the norm, but the vast, vast majority people who are perfectly capable of waiting until a stop.

Don’t email! Although I agree with everything this driver is doing , if she’s acted out of policy some young gen z manager might take offence and fire her.

Crikey, it seems Nanny No Dumps from Viz has travelled from the past to grace us with her faeces free presence. That takes me back. Your medal's waiting for you.

Sounds amazing! 🤩

Brilliant driver! Yes please do contact National Express and commend her.

What a wonderful driver (and also quite brave).

Section 12.1b - prohibited behaviour

"Play any music players, musical instruments or electronic devices that are audible and distracting or annoying to any person on any Coach, or which interfere with, or render less audible, any public address system or other equipment;"

12.3

If you fail to comply with this Condition 12, we shall be entitled to restrain you, remove you from any Coach or Station owned or managed by us, refuse you further carriage, cancel your Ticket without refund and take any other measures as we consider necessary, including to involve law enforcement authorities if we consider that there are any security or safety issues.

Furthermore, we reserve the right to refuse travel, either on a one-off or permanent basis, to anyone who has failed to comply with this Condition 12 or who we consider to be a nuisance or danger to our passengers, customers, drivers or National Express Representatives.

^ This.
Not everyone has the benefit of being perfect in body and mind, and its not a whole life experience for anyone.
Hopefully it is just a lack of thought causing some to suggest those who can't hold it for hours shouldn't be allowed to travel in public.

I went on a coach trip to France some years back and the drivers did have to clean out the loo.

They got rather annoyed - someone kept blocking it with nappies, but they didn't confront the culprit.