Notes from people who still mark the board at 05:15
These are named where the person agreed. They refer to a specific board, pack, or visit — not to a general impression of “the team”.
Helen spent the first hour on the apron with the night supervisor instead of asking for a slide deck. The board we use now has a column for vehicles that ran late from the washer, which was the thing our old whiteboard never captured.
The inspection window board is clearer than the diary we had. We still missed a safety inspection in the first fortnight because the vehicle card was in a driver’s bag; the board showed a blank row, which was honest, but I wish we had been told more bluntly to audit the card rack before the visit.
Marcus counted job cards against bay hours for a week when we were convinced the planned sheet was the whole story. Half the afternoon work was gate defects. I took his two-page note to the Friday meeting and nobody asked me to turn it into a presentation.
The spare cover pack covered a school-contract winter. It is not pretty. Cancelled duties are listed with dates. Finance stopped asking whether we were ‘just being cautious’ about a second spare.
The clipboard pack is what the relief supervisor actually carries. Headings match the wall. The first print run used a margin that clipped on our old copier; Priya reset it the same week.
Longer note: a school-contract winter in Fife
Lorraine McStay’s operations office kept cancellations in a carbon book that nobody bound at month end. The spare cover pack for thirteen weeks listed each date a second bus was needed and whether a coach was borrowed from a neighbouring depot. Two weeks were thin because the carbon copies had been used as scrap. We said so on page one rather than interpolating. Finance asked for the pack, not for a rewritten version.
Longer note: bay hours in West Yorkshire
Ibrahim Khan’s workshop planned inspections as if the sheet were the week. Marcus Adeyemi sat a Monday-to-Friday observation when gate defects took two bays each afternoon. The load sheet showed planned work occupying less than half the booked hours. The Friday meeting used that sheet. Nobody asked for a chart.
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