Is it just around here?

[JoM]

Thanking the driver is certainly done around here and has been for as long as I can remember.

[Workingman]

Same here. It seems like the normal thing to do. "Cheers, mate, thank you"

[JoM]

Same here. It seems like the normal thing to do. "Cheers, mate, thank you"

Yep. I couldn't imagine walking past the driver and not saying thank you. To me it's just good manners, they've provided you with a service so you thank them.

[AliasAggers]

Just to put the matter straight, I say "Thank you" too, now.

I was brought up in a very isolated town, which had many queer customs. Hardly anyone travelled away from it,
and if they did they called their destination "out of town", which meant anywhere from Timbuctoo to Australia.


Footnote - Does anyone ever say "thank you" to a train driver?

[Kaz]

It wasn't where I grew up Aggers, on the borders of North Surrey/Greater London, but it definitely is around here in Gloucestershire. People are very friendly here, on the whole.

[victor]

We say thank you to the bus drivers and to the guys that work on the cross harbour ferry-not the driver/captain as he is too high up in his cabin,have said thank you to the pilot when he/she appears at the doorway of the cockpit as we are leaving the plane.

[TheOstrich]

Same here. It seems like the normal thing to do. "Cheers, mate, thank you"

Yep. I couldn't imagine walking past the driver and not saying thank you. To me it's just good manners, they've provided you with a service so you thank them.

ROFL, well down here, not only do we thank the driver, it's not unusual to have a two minute chat with them when both boarding and alighting, (and with some regular passengers, occasionally when in transit as well)!

West Midlands Travel it ain't!

It's a small local bus company; we know pretty much all the drivers by their first names, and as the company has a small coach fleet as well, I guess the drivers are pretty used to being chatty ......

[TheOstrich]

JFootnote - Does anyone ever say "thank you" to a train driver?

Thinking back to my childhood, we certainly used to in the days of steam locomotives, Aggers, such as Bournemouth Central or Birmingham Snow Hill! Usually accompanied with a request to "cab" the locomotive as well .....

[JoM]

JFootnote - Does anyone ever say "thank you" to a train driver?

It's not really something you can do now that drivers are closed off in their compartments, and the layout of some stations means that you don't even walk past the driver to exit the platform.

Ossie, that sounds nice actually

[cruiser2]

When I was young, the driver sat in a cab at the front of the bus and passengers got on at the back. This was in the days of "clippies who stood at the back of the bus.
This also applied to trams in Liverpool and trolley buses which went to St Helens and passed near were I lived when I was younger.
So no chance of saying thank you