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WAS MOST interested in the .1tter from David Lock (Dear Sir, une 15) who has been trying to in London Transport as a bus rive-.
l, loo, tried to do this and was accepted for training after a short test-drive in a Ford Escort Estate car.
After two weeks drivertraining shared with another trainee, I was dismissed after a senior instructor on a "progress check" decided that I needed a few more days" training to reach psv test standard that "someone high up" had decreed was necessary.
The person who insisted I had to leave actually admitted that he was not saying that I was not good enough but that he could not give any more than a set time for training. I was far from the only person treated this way too. All this was after wasting the first three weeks at LT doing nothing, as there were more trainees than the instructors could cope with.
Admittedly, my experience was four years ago and now maybe LT has improved its training systems, but after my experience and that of Mr Lock, is it a surprise that LT is short of bus drivers? .What a contrast between the LT training scheme and the COMS as described in the same issue of CM.
I passed my hgv 3 test in 1978 at the first attempt, so I can't have been a hopeless case.
C. P. NIXON, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol