Ok, from what i hear.
Private Bus Drivers who work for touring companies earn more
money. Plus, some of them can park their buses at heavy vehicle
parks near to their home and use their buses as means of private
usage.
Private buses can also opt to park inside schools. (One B10M
MK-IV PSV parks at Canberra Primary School)
If you wanna be a public bus captain, you need to stick to perm
routes and drive for 9 - 12 hrs daily. Do note that you only have 1
off day per week. They can opt for public holiday leave if the
holiday is of religious nature (e.g Ching Ming or Thaipusam). Do
note that these holiday leaves is thru bidding and you may fail to
obtain the public holiday leave.
The shift that would give a lower income would be standby.
Standby BCs are BCs who would replace perm drivers if they are on
leave or MC. They would be deployed to drive Chartered buses and so
on. Do note that if the Standby driver is not assigned a duty on a
particular day, the wage would be flat at $20 per day.
Depots offer entertainment for BCs during swing breaks at
depots. Depots have lounges that have computers (these computers
have games in them that BCs can play), TVs and sofas. One
particular depot is WLDEP.
1 off day per week? Lol...
SMRT goes by 5-day work week. If the SLs choose to drive 1 more
day = get more wages, as simple as that.
If I'm not wrong the basic pay for both an SMRT and an SBST
driver is the same, but the only difference is that SMRT goes by
5-day work week and SBST, 6-day work week. If you bother to
calculate then, an SMRT driver who drives 6 days a week will
obviously get more pay then an SBST driver who drives 6 days a
week.
Which is why there are so many ex-SBST BCs who jumped ship to
SMRT to become SLs.