As a last chauffeur car Fritz Hänni drove for 14 years across Europe. The rough handling on the street have never bothered. But what experienced Hänni in the last few years, to think of him. “Many of my colleagues can no longer switch off when you come home in the evening.”
Hänni is now working as a Chauffeur at the Freiburg’s public transport system (TPF). As a trade unionist, the 55-year-old bus driver also sits in the Staff Committee of his employer. And at the same time, he accompanied the new bus driver. So he gets, like his colleagues suffer.
A still unpublished survey by the trade Union of transport personnel (SEV) for the health of the Buschauffeure shows how it is to the industry. The result is striking: Each of the second driver suffers from symptoms of Stress. This is twice as much as in the rest of the population, according to the health promotion Switzerland just referred to each Fourth as “emotionally exhausted”.
The bus driver reports of hasardier ends Cyclists, careless Car drivers, rowdy passengers to and from Central, who have their chauffeurs via GPS, always with an eye on the punctuality on the Radar.
The drivers feel so stressed out that around a third of them say that they already went to work, without being in full possession of his powers. “This is troubling,” says SEV-Union Secretary, Christian Fankhauser.
The survey was sent to 2500 a bus driver in Switzerland, sent – 500, you have answered. On the question of what drivers led to a visit to the doctor, they reported symptoms such as anxiety, irritability and fatigue. And in the last few years, the Situation has worsened even more, as an older comparison survey shows. In 2010, only 12 percent of all drivers listed between 56 and 65 years of age, that you would suffer from sleep disorders. This value has doubled in the same age group today.
In the questionnaires, the bus driver to indicate the aggressiveness of the car – and cyclists as one of the main reasons for the Stress. Almost every second a bus driver between the ages of 46 and 55 years of age indicates that he regards these traffic participants as “very annoying”.
“respect for the bus drivers disappeared in the last few years,” says Chauffeur Hänni. Especially cyclists would overtake the buses, “left and right”. Also E-Bikes be problematic. With articulated buses, you have access to Overland routes, hardly any overtaking because they were so fast. “The Bus must travel at the same speed afterwards and the driver comes under some time pressure.”
The increasing hustle and bustle in the traffic complain about others. Rolf Meyer, speaker of the Bernese Transport company, Bernmobil, says: “We assess the carelessness and lack of consideration of other road users as the biggest burden on our drivers.” In the training and development of bus services in the management of Stress is therefore an ongoing issue.
unrest spread but also the passengers, depending on the age category, two-thirds of all drivers in the health survey that you feel the aggression of the passengers as “annoying” or “very troublesome”.
The control center turns on in the event of delays
The Chauffeur Hänni noticed. In Freiburg, for example, there are buses recently re-inspections. For the passengers a reason to complain because they have to scrape out the subscription. Hänni don’t understand – “since it is to protect the passengers that have paid for”.
The TPF-Chauffeur observed, but also, as in the tone of the complaints has increased. Today, the reactions of the passengers would be because Smartphones usually by return of post. “In the Letter all the anger inside.” Hännis operation is begun, such claims are mostly not the drivers. Often the insults are just too hard, “bottom drawer,” says Hänni.
For the chauffeurs is also pressure from the companies. Almost every second driver feels the delays as a hardship at work. In fact, the control centers have to register each additional Minute. At bernmobil, for example, the MRP can see the ducks in the Central thanks to GPS, always, where, which Bus is on the road – and whether it is too late. The vehicle is in the Plan, gets the Status green. It is too late, he will be orange or even red. The Central can occur in the case of a delay even with the driver via radio to contact him and ask why.
but That would be “no Monitoring,” says Bern mobile-speaker Meyer. The target is a stable operation. The control centre will offer support – in case of an accident on the track or in the case of a fault on the Bus. Meyer also stressed that the delays would only be evaluated at the regularly occurring problems of line – specific – “but not personalized”.
Today, every major operation has according to the trade Union Secretary Fankhauser such a GPS or a similar System. He says: “young drivers feel stressed.”
The new technology does not change the fact that the buses tend to have more delays than in the past. In the case of the Zurich public transport VBZ), for example, operated (according to the spokeswoman Daniela Tobler “in the punctuality of the buses in the VBZ urban network in the last years have seen a slight downward trend”. Tobler calls for a number of reasons: more sites and more traffic.
bus drivers are always older women, there is hardly
How unattractive the bus is now, shows the age distribution of the drivers. So there was from 2010 to 2018, an increase of drivers between the ages of 56 and 65 years, and from 16 percent to 22 percent. At the same time, the young and the women are missing. Even today, 90 percent of all bus drivers are men.
in Spite of everything, Chauffeur Hänni says he’ll do his Job very much. This Friday afternoon, for example, he drives the course to Gletterens, FR, on the lake of neuchâtel. “A very nice track,” says Hänni. But the people would now accept that the public transport simply as a matter of course – “and he is not”.
(Sunday newspaper)
Created: 03.03.2019, 00:05 Uhr
