Any more fares
I worked at a branch of the now-defunct - thank fuck - National Bus Company many years ago. The "management" got very close to implementing a bonus scheme which meant, essentially, that if passengers were waiting along a route and a bus went along and picked them up, there was no driver's bonus. If, however, two buses went out and picked them up, bonus time! I can't work out how they always managed to run at a loss, can you?
(The Jannie, Sat 12 Jun 2010, 15:04, 2 replies)

I remember our local bus company
In Stoke-on-Trent, the bus company used to be known as Potteries Motor Traction - yes, PMT, for short.
It achieved the rare accolade of an appearance in The Book of Heroic Failures after city councillor Arthur Chollerton defended the practice of empty buses sailing past people waiting at bus stops by saying something like: If the drivers stopped to pick up passengers, it would disrupt the timetable.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sat 12 Jun 2010, 16:16, closed)

i can vouch for that.
i remember hearing that read to me from a newspaper when i wuz a student in Nottingham circa '88/'89 at the height of the devolved bus thingy.

an utter pillock.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 12 Jun 2010, 19:04, closed)