FOI request detail

Bus Driver Mobile Phone Policy

Request ID: FOI-2264-1920
Date published: 20 November 2019

You asked

TfL can you please send me TfL's policy for bus drivers who have a mobile phone attached to the windscreen while the driver is driving/working and whether TfL permit bus drivers to fix a mobile phone to their windscreen while driving?

We answered

Our Ref:         FOI-2264-1920

Thank you for your request received on 29 October 2019 asking for information about the policy for bus drivers’ mobile phones attached to windscreens.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require.

No driver should use an electronic device (including a mobile phone) while driving or in charge of a vehicle. Please refer to point two from the attached page of the latest edition of the Big Red Book that is provided to all bus drivers.

If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for some reason, please feel free to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.

Yours sincerely

Gemma Jacob
Senior FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London

[email protected]

 

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