Stagecoach South offers to train students and arrange shift patterns around their studies.
A bus company in Portsmouth is using TikTok and Snapchat videos to persuade university students to become part-time bus drivers.It wants a pool of skilled drivers who can work early, late and weekend shifts to ease the burden on full-time staff.
Jamie Watson has been driving buses for a year as a way to fund his way through a media degree in Portsmouth."I felt so happy, being able to work flexibly part-time with Stagecoach, while studying, which is something I don't think I could have got anywhere else."Along the A27 in Chichester, 86-year-old Royston Shaw still works full time. He has been a driver for 67 years."It's the camaraderie. It's meeting people.
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