Season 1
8 episodes
43 min. per episode
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Amidst summer chaos, a dedicated bus driver struggles to unite a diverse community while facing personal and professional challenges.
Episodes
Summer Holidays cause chaos in Hull and a jackknifed lorry brings the seafront buses to a standstill.
Hull's bus drivers are facing the hottest summer for seven years and in the control room in East Yorkshire Motor Services the heat is on as they struggle to cope with a breakdown in the air-conditioning. An air-conditioning breakdown is not the only thing getting Hull's busmen hot under the collar - a forthcoming charity football match means company pride is at stake.
It's the start of the school term and every bus in East Yorkshire Motor Services fleet is needed on the road for the school runs. Meanwhile in Scarborough, they too have every bus out on the road for the start of school term but it's not long before the Fast Action Response Team of engineers, or F.A.R.T as the bus drivers affectionately call them, are called out to deal with a poorly bus.
After a difficult start to the new school term where East Yorkshire Motor Services faced a perfect storm of bus breakdowns and road closures. But at East Yorkshire's second biggest depot in the seaside resort of Scarborough, it's a different story.
Life in the bus lane starts early at East Yorkshire Motor Services and the drivers are never sure what lies around the corner. Camaraderie in the face of adversity is key to keeping the show on the road but the family run company isn't without it's squabbles and a disagreement over pay has reached crisis point.
The humble British bus accounts for two thirds of all journeys by public transport in the UK today. Now, this bold series meets the likeable army of men and women who face a daily battle to keep the show on the road. Set over an entire summer season the series captures the day-to-day running of the UK's largest family-owned bus company for an entertaining look at life On The Yorkshire Buses.