City Bus Drivers in Guwahati -An observation

I’m a regular bus traveller in Guwahati but I usually avoid the seats near the driver because it’s hot in there and secondly the noise inside the cabin is intolerable to my ears.

Never the less, I had to sit in one of the seat near the driver’s cabin while returning from a market in Guwahati and following are my observations of the bus driver.

1. Horns from behind, horns from side and horns from left side too. I guess there is no one compared to these Bus drivers who has to hear irritating and continues honks each time they are on the driver’s seat.
2. Beside horns, they are used to hear those voices from behind like ‘rokhai diok’ or ‘rokhabo’ meaning ‘please stop (the bus)’.  Now the bus cannot be stopped at the middle of the road but errant passengers won’t understand it, they just want the bus to stop wherever they want, in case it does not happen then the driver is verbally abused.
3. The policeman comes in at the third. In this city, traffic police personnel (or any other police) can stop a bus wherever they want and fine the driver for being this and that. There are various ways (guess it) in which the bus driver has to get rid of it.
4.  Traffic Jams?? Everyone on the street will blame buses for this, passing by drivers of bikes and cars will pass lewd comment to the bus driver and drive away.

So much they bear and we never indemnify them. We also say the conductors are ill mannered, but ever realized how frustrated they remain doing the only task of collecting money and counting it the entire day?  

Be honest at the bus, pay the right fare always and don’t argue unnecessarily with the conductor or the driver. Let us live up to our virtue 