“Face it, Padsta, we've all done it!”

“Well done Aidan!”

“first off i have to say (cat and sk) thanks for your posts most entertaining, secondly well done to the young man on passing his tests, BUT as an experienced bus driver with nigh on ten years experience i think 18 is just too young for someone to take on that kind of responsibility, he may well be a great lad, of this i will not argue, but at some stage he will come across irate passengers this can so easily change a drivers mood, hence his driving actions change, harsh breaking, speeding, rudeness, even mounting pavements, Ive seen this happen to younger drivers Ive worked with, for one so young i just think it will prove too much for his young shoulders.”

“i,m 19 passed my psv test at 18 working stagecoach and hold a full licence to drive you have to stick to 51km but then that's eu and domestic rules”

“congratulations aidan im very proud of jaa hope you have fun getting lost in your little bus and getting your good money your lucker than daniel he lost his job in city bus hope you keep your job good luck and enjoy yourself
from chloe king xx
ps:take a map with you if you get lost on the way!
(dont forget)”

“Firstly, I'd like to say well done Bro on getting it all done.

Charlie, about going to University. He has chosen to do this, and he has chosen not to go to university. 90% of my friends are at Uni, the life is just a bum life while there getting drunk every night and squeezing in the studying time after hangovers and going out. I know of people who have finished uni and are then looking for a job for ages, and most of them have jobs like being a waiter/waitress or in a supermarket. They're amazing jobs with life prospects aren't they! They've left uni and thought, right I've got my degree, now what can I do with it, and most have very vague degrees which are useless for specific jobs so they dont gain anything.

There's so many people going to university at the moment because everyone is saying oh its the in thing to do, everyones getting the qualifications and then when out, theres no guaranteed placement with a company. When I ask people what courses they are doing at Uni they reply with things like business, environment, music development and social care. These are just subjects to fill in the time because they're unsure what they want to do after it they just want to go with the norm and be with their friends partying it up, instead of looking at a specific guaranteed future job with possible training. People who do apprenticeships and things like this, which need licences are the people who want to, and know, what they want to do with their life; they're the ones who have gone out and looked for what they want to do and thought oh I'll be in a job after I get this. They're the ones who should be respected for their decisions and achievements (hence a well done bro)

He's gone on and done something that he has wanted to do, you cant stop someone from doing that and you cant have a dig at someone and call their parents "twits" for letting them do that. Its not dead end, if he wants to in the future after this, go into HGV driving (after getting the licence, and a well paid job) the bus driving experience will count as driving something of a similar size. As you can get a HGV licence, but not be let on to a job for that reason. I know you may try to rip this idea apart, but the HGV licence is something with an age limit doing something different, and more dangerous, 3 years older than Aidan anyway. I just mention it as a prospect to oppose your "condemning a life of.." attitude.

I bet you sit there at home with a useless degree with no job gained from it, thinking you've been successful in life, thinking that everyone who hasn't 'chosen' to do what you have done, is lower than you.

Lay off it, and let people go their own directions in life as they well wish.”

“Dominic, i've never spatat or abused a bus driver even though they are a bunch of twits. Who the hell would want to drive a bus all day anyway. why didn't his parents put him through university if they think tht highly of him, but no, they have condemned him to a life "on the buses". Stupid twits.”

“Sorry but that stuff about you having to be 21 to get a PSV (bus drivers) licence is rubbish.
At 18 you can get a PSV, but you can't drive longer distance routes.
Do you muppets really think that Plymouth Citybus would employ someone without a licence and then make a fanfare of it??? VOSA would have a field day with that!!!
Also being around his age (and holding a PSV myself) I really hate the way your all so quick to blame us. Yes it is true and worrying about the number of young idiots on the roads, but they are a MINORITY, just like these drugged up alcoholic thugs that are branded by the general public and the press as WHAT EVERY TEENAGER IS LiKE. Once again they are only a MINORITIY!!! Maybe the reason bus drivers are so grumpy towards you is because no-one is polite or friendly to them!!! I mean how would you like it if In you job you had to put up with 5+ hours of being verbally abused, assaulted and being spat on???
I personally think Aidan will do a FANTASTIC job. WELL DONE MATE!!”

“So you can't drive a bus until you're 21 .... phew ..... relief. Sorry Aidan, but you are too young and the rest of you on here are a load of twits.”

“Join the Services then drive the Rhino in Iraq ..now thats a bus to drive along the Airport road......ahh well........when I grow up I want to !!!”