seat belts

[mrspirite]

can anyone tell me if coach drivers are exempt from wearing a seat belt.

[Panic Button]

No they are not.

Bus drivers are, because they are not fitted.

[TWR]

If there are seat belts fitted they have to be used. unless the bus is a vintage model.

[Panic Button]

No bus I have ever driven has had seat belts fitted for the driver.

Perhaps it is felt the driver should feel as vulnerable as his or her standing passengers.

[TWR]

Panic Button, Did you ever see on your routes the Chassis & Driver getting delivered? the driver was in a make shift box & was vulnerable to be thrown out of the make shift seating! No, I am not joking, I used to travel the M1 Daily + other parts of the country, I often used to pick up Platers that had delivered these Chassis ready for the assembly of the body of the coach.

[Panic Button]

I've seen chassis on the back of a flatbed, going to have bodywork fitted- I don't think H & S would allow them to be driven these days. It must have looked comical.

Considering all the current Health and Safety law, how come we can still have standing passengers on a vehicle doing 50 mph?

If the car was only invented now, it would be banned as too dangerous.

[bob57]

the reason that bus drivers do not wear seatbelts is for attending to passengers and collection of fares as with taxi drivers
if the bus driver were to wear seatbelts he wouldnt have the manouverability required to do his job properly in the seat
as for coach drivers they are required by law to wear seatbelts whilst driving except for reversing

[bob57]

panic button
its not the cars that should be banned if it were newly invented its the idiotic drivers that are around