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

[SmellsLikeTeenArmpit]

Travelling home on a National Express coach this morning.

When we had all boarded, the driver did a couple of safety announcements and then she said "Headphones must be used if you're watching or listening to anything on this coach, nobody else wants to hear your music, and believe me I won't hesitate to stop at a service station and make you get off if you ignore this".

Someone near the front just started having a conversation on loudspeaker and the driver immediately yelled "turn that off please, you all heard what I said before we departed Victoria" Loudspeaker was switched off and peace reigns again.

I might actually email NX and tell them how much I appreciate her, in the hope that they encourage all their drivers to take the same stance.

@angelos02 this started after the harmful over use of a mobile, on the brain was discovered.

Ah - I didn't realise. I'm not glued to mine like some people are so hopefully my brain isn't fried.

Yes they do. On my last trip the driver announced that he would be buying a toilet brush as someone had made a big mess in the loo. It stunk out the coach, too. Most people can wait to use the services. This was a kid in a hurry.

You can't force it, it's bad for you.

Mumsnet expects people to be able to control when they do and don't poo. I have bowel issues and certainly can't control when I need to go to the toilet and it can be quite urgent.

Love that!

Just to confirm this driver said nothing at all about the toilet other than to point at back of the coach and say where it is!

Pooing in a toilet is far less antisocial and more necessary than playing shitty mobile games at full volume or having loud video calls with your sister etc.

good on her wish normal bus drivers would do the same dont need to hear othe rpeoples cconversations/music

What if you desperately need a dump? 😅

Perfect example of my post above. How are you supposed to go on demand? If I don't need to go I cant force it out.

What the fuck are you meant to do on a ten hour journey if you need to take a shit at some point? Considering the average age of a lot of cruise passengers, I'd say the likelihood of being able to hold on for hours would be slim. Fucking idiot (the driver).

Awesome legend driver! All bus drivers, train drivers and pilots should do this

You are wrong, my DH is a coach driver and he had the right to set out the rules of transit and stop to remove anybody that doesn’t comply. Much like a bar tender had the right to refuse service. If 5 Pele were having a loudspeaker conversation at the same time and somebody else had music on and dignity rises kids were playing games, how do you expect the driver to concentrate? A low babble of background conversation is very very different. My DH tells the school teachers he’s got zero problem with school kids singing to the same song if they want to do that, he will even have the music subtraction playing for them. But he won’t tolerate noisy games/tablets/music unless he’s on his own and it’s his music.

Perfect example of my post above. How are you supposed to go on demand? If I don't need to go I cant force it out.

That’s made me want to travel via national Express now !

Excellent, well done that man 👏🏻😊

Good on the driver. Last coach trip I went on, the driver did the safety briefing bit and asked for any questions. I asked her to turn the annoying radio off - yes the drivers radio 😂

Coaches never used to have toilets and people managed fine. Just like people don’t tend to soil themself in the car. I get that in very rare circumstances a medical condition may prohibit someone having control of their bowels but most people should be fine. Those toilets really do stink to high heaven if someone passes a solid.

No I didn’t understand the link it was too much information for me to read which is why I asked if it was listed. Thank you for clarifying. In that case I definitely would email some praise!

Brilliant driver, this is how to manage things, set your expectations high and at the beginning then there’s no argument.

i was on a standard city bus in Germany a couple of weeks ago and realised the driver was saying something pretty sharpish, clearly an instruction (I don’t know German) and as a phone playing music without headphones was then turned off abruptly I imagine this was a very clear command to passengers to stop with the loud music. Very refreshing and I wish all public transport operators would do this. Is there any reason they can’t?!

And most people are fine.

It's those who aren't who are important here.

It'll be one of the reasons they chose a coach with a toilet in the first place.

I wasn’t able to check so I asked. I didn’t know what OP meant with the numbers/letters. It’s ok to ask further if you don’t know something, surely that’s how we learn? It was a lot of information on the link, far too much for me to process.

Definitely send them an appreciation email. We need more people like her calling the shots for decent behaviour 💪

I guess train drivers don't actually know what's going on in the rest of the train so can't enforce it. And bus drivers are already subject to far too much abuse, plus passengers get on and off every few minutes so they'd never stop saying it. On a coach, stops are limited and so it's more of a captive audience. Plus the threat of being chucked off at a service station in the middle of nowhere is quite powerful!

Are you sure about that? I don't know about NE but my ex was a coach driver for a couple of different companies and they very much did have to clean them.