400 yards, your kidding right?

No, I'm not. And mum drives past the school at the same time that we pick up. You can't make this stuff up.

Ive seen quite a few cases where I wonder how they get away with it

like free transport when the parents own 2 x £500K houses, a factory, 2 beemers, motorbikes and a Caterham sports car...

just scum mate who have zero respect for themselves

plus the school fees paid....£15K a year

when they could afford it themselves

I had (on the same run) the 1 kid form the minted family and 2 from families of - shall we say - our sort (council housing), these families were polite and gracious the ones with money couldnt get the kid ready on on time and on 1 occasion after the car waiting 10 minutes and leaving they rang demanding the car came back

come on then ( although i probably know )did you ????

Seriously?.....no

and by the time i got to the school office to say he hadnt come out his mum had rung him in sick

I have had a call today from County Hall asking if we can put a larger vehicle on the same run because they want to add another 2 students. They told me the pick up pointand I said that we could but the larger vehicle would cost 50% more. They agreed the price. The daft thing here is that there is a bus runs from the top of the road to the school. We used to run this service ourselves. The cost of the bus is £1.00 each way so £4.00 per day. I am getting an extra £17.00 per day.