A DRIVER’S EXPERIENCE
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Bob Rust, BRS driver “When I came out of the army in 1955, I tried to get a job with BRS, but, to quote the gate man, ‘Conditions here are so good you have to wait for someone to die to create a vacancy’.
Eventually Bob got a holiday relief job at the Hampstead depot. “After six years of ‘private enterprise’, BRS was a revelation. Vehicles were serviced regularly, all the tyres had treads, and defects were repaired almost on demand. No more trekking from garage to garage to get DERV, trying to find one where your firm was not on the blacklist. Whatever went wrong, there was always help. Be it accident, breakdown, puncture or shot load.” Bob then got a job as a checker-loader with BRS at its Coppetts Road depot (formerly Fisher Renwick, home to the legendary ‘Showboats’).
Later, at Kentish Town, he was back on night trunk duty, then at Grays. “I went on day tramp [and discovered] this security extended to always having a bed booked in decent digs, being able to park without worry even in Liverpool and no longer being at the mercy of clearing house sharks.”