Or Bus Driver

[Sarahh2014]

Just got on a bus in my village with a £10 note the fare i was getting was £4 not ideal but it was genuinely all i had on me ( no time to change it in a shop) bus driver stated had no change and could issue a credit note for the money owed to me.I said I'm sorry but I need the changeplus I have no need to travel on any more buses to use up the credit pls could you let me on? he refused resulting me in being late for an appointment

OP - YABU. There is no right to travel for free, unless you have the appropriate pass.
you were not refused travel on the bus. You had four options - be organised and have change, agree to the credit note, get off and get the next bus or offer to pay £10 for the fare. (The driver may not be allowed to do the last as tickets sold will not then equal money taken.)

I travel pretty regularly by bus so have change, but now can pay using contactless payment.

PickAChew yes that's exactly what I thought I hardly use them

He should have let you on for free

Why would he let her on for free? Then all anyone would need to do to get on for free is to claim to only have large notes?

He should have let you on for free

Why?

He offered you a solution, which you turned down. You could presumably exchange the credit note for cash with them at a later point. If they let people on for free, nobody will have the right change, why pay when you can wave a note and say sorry instead.

I’m baffled by this thread, never realised there were so many awkward bus companies in this country .

I too live in an area where they’d not bat an eyelid at giving change and if they didn’t have the correct change, they’d invite you to sit down until they did (from other passengers) or let you off if they couldn’t do it (happened to me just the once).

We’re talking £6 change here - a fiver and £1, maybe? Hardly the most outrageous transaction in the history of public transport.

A credit note is no use for someone who hardly ever catches the bus.

It doesn't matter if its outrageous or not, if he didn't have the change then he didn't have it, simple as that.

It makes me irate that bus drivers never have any change. This doesn't happen in shops!

But he’d probably have the change within a few stops.

Couldn't you have paid using contactless?

It makes me irate that bus drivers never have any change. This doesn't happen in shops!
That's because shops are buildings that can store plenty of change. A bus driver is on his own in a bus and has to physically carry his money/float around with them. They have to change buses many times a day and cannot carry an infinite amount of change with them.
They can't just call on a manager to refill the till with change like they can in shops.

It makes me irate that bus drivers never have any change. This doesn't happen in shops!

Shops don't consist of one person driving people around, anyone of whom could rob them of their float?

It makes me irate that bus drivers never have any change. This doesn't happen in shops!

Because that's a fair comparison

Sarahh2014
WhiteCoyote er no I mentioned it to him when got on.No hissy fit needed thanks and I could have only got him into trouble if I had chose to complain. I knew I was partly in the wrong as I've said upthread

you weren't partly wrong, you were completely wrong and can't accept it either.

You weren't refused travel at all, you should stop saying that and you should certainly not tell such a lie to a senior busdriver.

Our buses don't give change. End of

Why didn't you just leave earlier and go to the shop?

I also want to know what outcome you were hoping for after learning the driver didn't have change

YABU. You can take most change vouchers on to other buses or to the bus depot(?) and get them swapped for actual money without having to travel on the bus. He's not gonna let you on for free that's just stupid

I once persuaded a bus driver to stop at a shop so I could get some change! This was back in the 90s though. Other passengers were furious with me. Belated apologies!

I’ve known drivers to refund the credit note as cash before you even leave the bus! If ppl after you getting on paid with coins he might then have been able to give you your change after all.

Happens more often than you’d think, especially since many buses start to use RFID payment...

So glad I drive a London bus. They are cashless.

Bus companies are generally large - but you would t go into your corner shop and expect the one man band shop not to have change so why would you not expect a bus not to carry change - would your local shop tell you they could only give you a credit note -no - do bus company is in the wrong not to equip the driver with the tools to provide the service!