Free Bus Services
If you’re going to get
involved with running free bus services you really do need to read this
excellent booklet produced by the National Association
of Road Transport Museums which was drawn to my attention by Peter Osborn.
It is a mine of up to date information on the requirements for insurance, driver’s
licences, drivers’ hours, MOT certificates,
conductors and attendants, training, definitions of hire and reward, risk assessment
as well as a vehicle inspection check list. The guidance notice is written in a
sensible, authoritative and no-nonsense style with details of all the documents
used to compile it.
If anything went wrong on a
free bus service I would feel much happier if I had documentary evidence that I’d
followed this detailed guidance note. Anyone who hadn’t followed the guidance
would have difficulty proving to a subsequent enquiry that they had exercised due
diligence.
The guidance note is
available for £2 (plus A5 SAE) from NARTM,