Yup. He does have a lengthy break in afternoon. So it won't
breach the union's thing.
And unless the express bus he drives early in the morning is a
ghost bus, and the normal bus he drives during off-peak after that
also ghost bus, and then the evening express route also ghost bus,
then I am pretty sure it's him.
It's a rather strange question to ask.
Akin to saying: Are you sure it's 5 o'clock and not 5pm...?
Though to be fair, it's hard to believe.
Until you get a BC that drives you to work, and then drives you
home from work practically almost everyday, and then bump into him
even on Saturday mornings, I really don't think you have a sense of
how tough being a BC may well be.
I have taken his buses this way for 2 years already. But
according to him, he has been doing this routine already for 10
years. And I don't see why I should be cynical at that.
It's a split (S) shift. In other countries, a car would have
benefited him greatly in cutting traveling time to and from the
depot. There is no such luxury in Singapore.
Of course, one solution is to convert it into A/P shift and have
two drivers, but who would want to pay for 2 drivers when you can
pay 1.25 of a driver's wage to do something similar in fulfilling
demand?