Corona
For the last 14 months, or so, we've been having to contend with the effects of a worldwide pandemic. This has manifested itself in the real bus/coach industry in differing ways. Coaches have been utterly decimated by a collapse of private hire work, tour work and all the 'in between' jobs that come a coach operator's way alongside traditional school contract work. All the while, the outgoings remain the same. Coaches are expensive items of equipment and usually are on finance, so that bill is paid whether or not the vehicle moves. I have seen these effects as a coach driver and for the last 14 months, my work has been in the home to school category, after a 6 month hiatus from mid March 2020 when the schools closed. That was complicated by a house move to Yorkshire, so it allowed me time to reflect on what I want from life, added with the benefit of loads of free time, but no funds with which to do things. The bus industry has also had it's issues during t...