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the first tridents
i was one of the twats who volunteered to do the 44 rota, running with shiny t reg tridents. as was demonstrated when we were all taken out for training on them you had to have the handbrake on to get the exit door opened and vice versa. to tell you how bad they were the first sunday they were out, they'd all been changed over by 1300.
the following monday (which was a local holiday) i was trundling up to balerno when i had to stop, clunk! couldn't get the exit door shut. so one call for help later i got sent a bus up from longstone. knowing the hassle that only half the services were out i floored it going to balerno.i picked up a route manager and just at that point bang!wheeee! wtf wizzat? at that point i lost a lot of power, hmmm turbo charger maybe? so another call later stand at balerno driver, as if i was going anywhere with a dff bus!. patrol van turns up and yes one of the clips had come off the pipe leading to the charger. so what does the inspector try to fix it with ? PLASTIC TIE WIRE? F"£$ OFF YA BALOON two seconds down the road it'd dissapear!! in between all this the original trident turned up and the fitters having removed a few fuses and such right driver carry on have a nice day! i was supposed to have been changed over on the way down to wallyford however, thanks to all this carry on i w!
as mega late and the bus sent up got taken away for someone else. after all that bullshit with the fleas and this you wonder why i came off the rota a couple of days later? 

Psycho

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