11/09/2024
driver signed on at 3pm today just outside glasgow for a new bus operator had to travel to inverness to cover emergency rail replacement work driver is happy at £200 for the 15 hour shift as he has just left inverness 20 minuets ago to go back to the south of glasgow but this driver was not happy when he found out that abelloi who run the service on behalf of scotrail will pay the bus operator standard rate of £150 per hour and £5 per mile but as this was emegancy work that is 3 times these amounts total invoice is £9900 from scotrail for the job in a 16 seater. This shows how much operators will underpay their drivers for the obscene amounts of renenue they collect for rail replacement work and everyone wonders why the railway is in the state its in. im not a liberty to say who the bus operator is due to GDPR