to report this bus driver

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for using a hand held phone while driving the bus, in the dark and icy conditions, not that a clear sunny day would make it any better

DH has said he will report him to the company and the police, would you?

just to make it clear, i do agree with DH !

Absolutely! That is disgraceful conduct

yes report him. its not just his life he puts in danger but his passengers and everyone he passes whilst on the phone. yanbu.

yes but doubt they will do anything. bus drivers seem to live by a different code compared to other road users.

YANBU. Bloody idiot could kill someone.

ah, but SEA (gawd, this will now sound like AIBU by stealth)DH works in management for their nearest competitor bus company, and hence knows the drivers boss personally, so told him "I will tell X and report you to the police" - bet the driver IS bothered - it is a sacking offense in DHs firm.

DH got very cross with him, feeling he needed the "shock" factor of a member of the publics anger at his idiocy, rather than just finding out later that he had been seen and reported IYSWIM

the guy is probably driving in his car on the phone all the time too

I have no words for people like that

I have made quite a habit of reporting bus drivers. I reported one for swearing at a woman who took 'too long' to fold her pram.

I reported another for telling a woman that if her baby didn't stop crying she would have to leave the bus.

And the last one I reported for pulling out while an ancient old woman was 6still trying to board^ the bus. Dickhead. He could have killed her!

Report him.

report him fecking idiot (the driver, not you wink

one day I will get the smiley think right - LOL

I reported a bus driver for a comment he made to a teenager (in school uniform, so obviously under 16). He turned round to her and went "you're a stunner, fancy letting me see what's under that mini skirt" . I have a DD who must only be 2-3 yrs younger than this girl was...The bus company did nothing, driver is still driving for them, despite being an obvious pervert. I won't let my DD get on the bus if he's driving now...

YANBU. Please report this selfish idiot.

I remember watching one of those UK cops reality TV programmes which involved an accident in which a young woman lost her life. It focussed on the police officer who was tasked to tell her family. On the way, he was in slow-moving traffic and spotted some drivers using their mobile phones. One of them was a young woman, not much older than the victim. The officer just about barely kept his act together when talking to that woman.

The young woman who died was completely innocent; the young woman who was talking on her mobile seemed clueless about the risks posed to other people by her behaviour.

If that bus driver isn't held to account then there's the risk of another police officer going to another family with all the consequent anguish.

YANBU, DH has reported a bus driver for pulling out on him and then swearing at DH, even though it wasn't DH's fault.

I don't think bus companies usually follow up unless they have to - I reported a bus driver for missing me by inches going through a red light on a pelican crossing - they did absolutely nothing. Wished I'd gone to the police instead.

loudlass - DH has sacked drivers for that sort of conduct before, if it is a school contract bus report to council and school too

chick - they should have followed up, let the driver know there had been a complaint -but that scenario sounds like it would have been your word against his/hers, without CCTV or other witnesses, they would not be able to do anything

I think the thing that pissed me off the most was that the person I spoke to didn't even apologise or say they would follow up. To be honest, I was so shaken up by it that I didn't really know what to do at the time.