Tea And Coffee Etc. On A Coach

[kenny1234]

Has anyone heard of a new regulation that states that brewing-up whilst the coach is moving ---is now illegal??

[EDDIE51]

How do you 'brew up' on a moving coach?
Boiling water on a moving coach would be dangerous.

[Buenchico]

Probably only if you happen to be driving the coach at the same time!

It's always hard to prove a negative but I'm quite proud of my research skills but I can't find any reference at all to the 'new regulation' on Google. Plenty of coach operators are still advertising that hot drinks are available on their vehicles, National Express's Conditions of Carriage specifically state that customers are free to take hot drinks on board (as long as the cups have got safety lids on them) and Drinkmaster is still selling machines to prepare hot drinks on the move:
http://www.drinkmaster.co.uk/drink-machines/machines-on-board-vehicles.html

If I was a betting man my money would be on the information you've apparently been given turning out to be false!

[Zacs-Master]

National express tea coffee

[EDDIE51]

I know they have hot drinks on a coach but I assumed the question was about brewing up your own drinks not the ones supplied by the coach operator. I remember a plane fire on a PIA flight that was caused by a passenger lighting up a camping stove to cook food! The plane crashed in Saudi Arabia with over 200 dead!

[Bathsheba]

Couldn't help but think of this.......;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3NVPOedkEk

[maggiebee]

I do know that you are not allowed to carry hot drinks on to Stagecoach buses for safety reasons so would imagine "brewing up" would be a complete no no.

[weecalf]

So all brews are a no no then .it would be dangerous if you were going over a lump back bridge .

[EDDIE51]

maggiebee, you can take a flask but not carry on an open cup of hot drink.

[mushroom25]

Eddie, PIA740 was a Hajj flight and although consumed by a cabin fire shortly after take off from Jeddah, the cause was never determined.

The crew flying Saudi163 the following year declared a fire emergency after taking off from Riyadh, and although the plane made it back to the airport with no visible external fire, the plane was completely destroyed by a fire that erupted 3 minutes after the doors were opened and some 23mins after it landed. in the remains of the cabin, 2 butane stoves were found.

[aelmpvw]

//brewing-up whilst the coach is moving ---is now illegal??//

only if you're the driver

[aelmpvw]

sorry, just spotted buenchico's opening line

[EDDIE51]

Mushroom25
Yes I know, I was living in Saudi Arabia at the time.
The story was officially 'hushed up' but I lived with British ex-pat airport workers who knew the truth.

[kenny1234]

I was referring to a private coach trip where a regular volunteer agrees to make a brew for anyone on the coach wanting one .(using the equipment installed on the coach)

[EDDIE51]

^^ Then it will be health and safety . They can't risk the volunteer scalding themselves and claiming damages off the coach company. Not actually illegal just against H & S advice.

[ubasses]

Last time I was on a coach (many moons ago) it was a machine and you just went and pushed the button and helped yourself.

[EDDIE51]

^^ Same principle,passenger goes to get a hot drink just as the coach hits a bump in the road. Result passenger claims damages for a scald.
Remember someone successfully sued a coffee shop for selling hot coffee !!
They spilled it and got a scald so they sued the coffee shop for selling them hot coffee and won!

[lilacben]

Buses and coaches haven't done it for years now. Same as the tv's you used to get. x