Trainee Bus Driver

Torry_Quine

patman99 wrote: »

Down here in Essex they use some ancient buses that are 25+ years old. Not sure if they are manual as don't take much notice.

You are correct about the training costs. You only repay them if you pass your test (you get 2 goes with First) and then leave within 2 years.

You only get a second test if they think that you were very close to passing as it costs First for each test. My cousin wasn't even allowed once! :mad:

patman99

Christ!!, he must have been bad.

OP, if you do become a bus driver, don't do what a mate of mine does. If he sees an aggressive-looking person standing at the bus stop, he pretends to not see them and drives past.

Kimberley

I've been doing a bit of research on the Internet and apparently you have to take the eye test without your glasses on if you wear them :eek: I've failed already

Torry_Quine

patman99 wrote: »

Christ!!, he must have been bad.

OP, if you do become a bus driver, don't do what a mate of mine does. If he sees an aggressive-looking person standing at the bus stop, he pretends to not see them and drives past.

Thanks for that.

As I said he really wasn't given a chance and only actually got once chance to drive the bus for a couple of hours which we didn't think was much at all. It's a big change from a car to a bus. :eek:

Kimberley wrote: »

I've been doing a bit of research on the Internet and apparently you have to take the eye test without your glasses on if you wear them :eek: I've failed already

Not true. If you normally wear glasses then you have to wear them, it would be very wrong otherwise.

Kimberley

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Not true. If you normally wear glasses then you have to wear them, it would be very wrong otherwise.

On the DVLA website under Medical Examination Report D4 it says you must have a visual acuity of at least 6/9 in the better eye
• a visual acuity of at least 6/12 in the worse eye, and
• if these are achieved by wearing glasses or contact lenses the uncorrected visual acuity in each eye must be no less than 3/60.

I cannot see a Snellen chart without my glasses on from 3 metres and 3/60 is what is calculated at 3 metres from the chart.

kizkiz

Kimberley wrote: »

On the DVLA website under Medical Examination Report D4 it says you must have a visual acuity of at least 6/9 in the better eye
• a visual acuity of at least 6/12 in the worse eye, and
• if these are achieved by wearing glasses or contact lenses the uncorrected visual acuity in each eye must be no less than 3/60.

I cannot see a Snellen chart without my glasses on from 3 metres and 3/60 is what is calculated at 3 metres from the chart.

Exactly right
I'm studying for my C1/D1 right now, and that is even a question on the theory test (the 3/60 uncorrected)

patman99

What happens if you only have one working eye?.

Can I assume that 3/60 indicates that at 3 metres you should be able to read 60-point font?.

kizkiz

patman99 wrote: »

What happens if you only have one working eye?.

Can I assume that 3/60 indicates that at 3 metres you should be able to read 60-point font?.

Apparently
"visual acuity is recorded as e.g. 3/60 the patient sees at three meters what a 'normally' sighted person should see at 60 meters"

I struggled to read any numbers without my glasses, but apparently had 6/9 unaided! No chance i'd ever drive without glasses, but you may be surprised when you take the test

patman99

Found a website that explains it and has an onscreen chart. Only trouble is, it doesn't ask for the size of the monitor, so you have no real idea of how big the chart is supposed to be.
I can do way below 6/9 without glasses since my cataract op on my good eye. However, I cannot even see the chart clearly with my bad one.
Crazily, the test is done one eye at a time, so if you have a photographic memory, then you can simply repeat the same line again.
A better test would be to use a different chart for each eye and for both corrected and uncorrected vision.


Just been reading the DVLA guidelines for applying for PCV/LGV licenses (inc. 3.5 - 7.5 Tonne categories). Makes me glad I passed my test back in '87. No need to form-fill or take any more tests in order to drive a 7.5 Tonner, I can hop right into the cab and drive away. Looks like the DVLA idea of 6/9 is the ability to read a number plate at 20 Ft (3m).

ohreally

patman99 wrote: »

Looks like the DVLA idea of 6/9 is the ability to read a number plate at 20 Ft (3m).

3m is less than 10ft.