Bus Company Training Vehicles

Larger bus operators have traditionally trained their own new drivers using older vehicles from their fleets, often with colorful liveries and invitational recruitment slogans. Companies often bought in buses for training from other companies rather than converting their own, and this book explores a variety of training vehicles from around the country over the last fifty years, including examples that have survived into preservation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2021
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

The larger bus operators, whether municipal or company-owned, have traditionally trained their own new drivers. Typically, older vehicles from the fleet were retained and adapted for training, adorned with 'L plates. In earlier days, they would usually just retain fleet livery. Sometimes, they might receive a separate livery to warn other road users. When the National Bus Company introduced corporate liveries of red or green for its fleets, many of their constituent companies used yellow for their training and service vehicles. Then, as recruitment became more difficult from around the 1980s, colorful liveries with invitational recruitment slogans tended to appear and this has continued since. Surprisingly, companies often bought in buses for training from other companies rather than converting their own, and these might be types not otherwise represented in their fleet. This book looks at a variety of training vehicles from around the country over the last fifty years, including examples that have survived into preservation.

Weight: 278g
Dimension: 166 x 232 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398100978