bus drivers remain on one bus route?-

[tali1]

How long in general do bus drivers remain on one bus route?-, daily? week?, fortnight? months ?

[SlackAlice]

Depends on the Garage and how many routes they operate from the garage. My garage operates 15 routes and has 240 drivers. The routes are split in to 3 Rotas. Generally a driver would stay on one route for that weeks shift, have 2 days off then start the next shift on a different route. Occasionally, you might work 2 days on one route and 3 days on another route. A lot depends on how long the days work is because they have to fit it in to our weekly working hours.
As an aside it takes about 3 yrs to work a complete Rota from top to bottom.

[sarumite]

In some areas a driver may operate several routes during the same day, as this leads to more efficient scheduling. Similarly, the bus may of course also run over a number of inter-worked routes.
Drivers will be allocated to rotas that may vary in length from just one week (i.e. a permanent duty) up to more than one hundred working weeks. A smaller rota comprising fewer routes should of course enable drivers to become more efficient with the routes they operate.
However, different companies have very different working practices.

[busno808]

I do the same thing every day, school run then bath runs then some more schools, others in the depot go on tours 3,4,5, days and others do private hires to theme parks museums etc, operational requirements dictate who does what but we all generaly do what we are used to.