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Originally Posted by snapper2
My first thought was that the driver probably regularly drives single deckers. Imo reading the signs and being aware of surroundings important as that is wouldn't be relevant if your mind set at the time was in the wrong vehicle . Driver returning to depot empty, regularly using single deck vehicle, mind set dis engaged, possibly thinking of other things, auto pilot, I could visualise that.
Not very professional, but understandable.
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As a bus engineer I often worked anything up to 25 days without a break, coming off late shift at 01.30 and going back to start early shift at 05.30 with just a few hours sleep. Some times I would sit on the end of the bed after an hour of so of sleep and try to remember if I was supposed to be getting up to go to work or if I had just finished. Once or twice when driving home in the early hours I tried to drive my manual transmission car like an automatic, wondering why it was stalling as I drove round corners in top gear - this was after spending the night moving and shunting auto box buses. It was very common to do what was known as a 'double ' that's an early shift followed by a middle shift, staring at 05.30 and finishing at 22.30, then back the next morning to start all over again again. So yes I must admit to driving on auto some times, both in a bus as well as a car, but with a mortgage and bills to pay - extra money earned with overtime was always needed.