Strict balance of Bus driving and Test readings?

[Johnny66]

I am a bus driver (south coast) with type 1.

I have to test every two hours or less, which is the law but awkward to achieve given that we follow tight duty rotas, without being late.

I currently wait until I arrive at a terminus/ stop location that I can discreetly take a reading (engine off, at the back/top of the bus)

How do any other bus drivers manage their day?

 

[mikeyB]

Hi Johnny, welcome to the forum.🙂

It may be worth just coping until the decision comes when the DVLA accept Libre readings. It may be quite soon. Switch to the Libre, then you can test while you are waiting for traffic lights to change. I’ve done it while using my road going mobility scooter.

I always give way to buses, honest. Bet the old gits on the South Coast don’t

 

[Johnny66]

Hi Mike, thanks, I'll wait and see, then.

Thanks for letting us go- most don't here, actually! Taxis and cars, usually! 😛

 

[Northerner]

Hi Johnny, welcome to the forum.🙂

It may be worth just coping until the decision comes when the DVLA accept Libre readings. It may be quite soon. Switch to the Libre, then you can test while you are waiting for traffic lights to change. I’ve done it while using my road going mobility scooter.

I always give way to buses, honest. Bet the old gits on the South Coast don’t

Doesn't look like buses will be included for Libre/CGMS:

https://www.parliament.uk/business/...s/written-question/Commons/2019-01-22/211118/

 

[mikeyB]

That seems an odd distinction. A car as as deadly as a bus if it strikes a pedestrian. Certainly, terrorists prefer cars to buses for mowing people down.

 

[trophywench]

Yeah but when you drive your double decker into Sainsbury's, you do tend to endanger, kill and damage a lot more people than you can carry in a car.

 

[Johnny66]

Yeah but when you drive your double decker into Sainsbury's, you do tend to endanger, kill and damage a lot more people than you can carry in a car.

Yes, awful and thankfully rare. Not the high CPC standard that most of us are trained to.

OAP drove double decker for 75-hours per week despite warnings

“He had been allowed to carry on driving but warned not to drive when he was tired."

 

[trophywench]

Yeah - Stagecoach are facing huge legal bills and since we live locally the bus service is important to us.

But, I fully appreciate that there have to be more stringent checks regarding drivers of buses or 44 ton artics whether it's re diabetes or anything else, having lost my own licence after a couple of hypos on the motorway which TG only involved 2 'firm's' cars and the central barrier. Both my lucky days - so I only have one left and hence have to protect it even better than I ever could on the rubbish insulin regime I was on then. Started off on the carpark at work with a BG of 7+ so started to drive home - 20 minutes later up the barrier with no prior warning - so I know full well it won't stop every accident and stopping and testing is such a simple thing to have to do in comparison to having 'that' accident, isn't it?

 

[HOBIE]

I am a bus driver (south coast) with type 1.

I have to test every two hours or less, which is the law but awkward to achieve given that we follow tight duty rotas, without being late.

I currently wait until I arrive at a terminus/ stop location that I can discreetly take a reading (engine off, at the back/top of the bus)

How do any other bus drivers manage their day?

Well well done for going to work Johnny66. That is good by itself 😎 Good luck.