Brake defects, faulty seatbelts, broken doors – the allegations made against a major bus operator

Photograph: Barry Cronin.Nico Holloway arrived in Ireland in September 2023 to drive for Citi Bus Limited, which trades as Dublin Coach but is better known as “The Big Green Bus”, the words emblazoned on its distinctive green livery.

Mr Holloway has taken on the company and turned whistleblower, making complaints under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and legislation protecting employees. He wasn’t the only one making note of the defects, he claims. Those “logbooks showed that the same complaints were regularly made by drivers in respect of seriously dangerous and defective vehicles,” the filings state.

Another set of recorded defects relate to the bus’s retarders, a kind of secondary braking system. One log entry notes that “retarders activate while driving and decelerates the bus”, while another entry shows a driver recording that “retarder does not work”. There are also references to errors on some buses’ tachograph device, which records the amount of time drivers spend driving and resting, as well as capturing data about the vehicle, while another vehicle defect form mentions that one bus’s speedometer is faulty.

He was sacked by Citi Bus on January 5, 2024, by way of a letter. He says he was also approached “in the company’s canteen and advised were going to take him to the airport, where he had been booked on a flight to return to South Africa”.

Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)

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