The blonde at the wheel of a yellow MAZ

"On the bus ride harder, although they are run almost only women," - says Elena Budai. Along with this charming girl, having a 12-year driving experience and the category B, C, D and I went on a voyage to the suburban route.



You come into the cabin MAZ-103 and once you understand: behind the wheel of this car goes woman. On the dashboard - rubber mats, hand calculator, cash register. All neat and in place. The panel is rubbed to a shine, while the bus goes on the suburban route, that is the most that neither is pylischa. We are, in fact, just go to the village Olden (Minsk region) through Kolodishchi.



- Sophisticated route. We often work without a conductor and sell tickets itself (in shuttle buses are not set validators). That is wasting time at the expense of the schedule. A stowaways are caught - with me as first asked - brings us up to date Helen, hurrying: it's time to leave. - However, now you see for yourself.
In no buildup. We sit in the MAZ and touches. Bus seamlessly integrated into the flow, steadily moving out of the city, picking up passengers early-summer residents. If you do not know who is behind the wheel, you can decide what carries the typical driver 40-50. But in the cockpit - a fragile girl with a manicure and makeup (when only managed to - in fact an early flight?).







- Well, yes, you need to frequently update manicure than office workers. But generally there spetsovochki-perchatochki. Nothing - and antifreeze me, and fuses when required - Elena grins. - Before the work required to get around the bus, look around everything - from the wheels to the interior. Well we have to know in what condition I had left changer. Bus I love it I have little yellow, merry. Just right for me - I'm blonde!



Early in the morning to go Kolodishchi few distractions from the management accounts not often. Please note how cleverly our driver pulls away from stops and takes place in the band. Never would not want, no one replaced. But still you need to make sure that the cabin did not happen! It can be seen that the girl knows the route by heart, although buses rides a year. Behind the six years of management by trolley. Elena says that the last control is even more difficult - you have to follow immediately after the two roads: the roadway and wires.
- Actually, I handed over the rights 12 years ago, and unbeknown to his father. He was my driver, like his grandfather. My sister also works behind the wheel in one of the factories. In short, the family dynasty. But I, as the youngest daughter, dad once said, do not even think - says the girl. - So I go on driving courses in secret. Then he had to, of course, admit ... He thought that can not handle, I guess. Now it has become a more serious concern. Seeing asks, well, how are you, fellow? But still, apparently he believes that a woman should cook borscht and raise a family, to be the guardian of the hearth. Well, or what there still have stamps?



- So many people actually think.
- Well yes. Sometimes even by the reaction of the passengers can understand that a woman - a bus driver for them this is nonsense. People come to the salon, looking at me in surprise and asked me what was on a bus? And when she was an intern, one grandmother began to reproach my mentor (certain time of departure is obliged to intern with a more experienced driver), they say, what are you doing, friend sat behind the wheel? This is a typical view for society. Well, what can you do, I love big cars! Passenger car is not. That's when you sit down at the MAZ, then you feel the force, something.



The bus park №4 Minsk are several women drivers. One moved from the tram, the other - with the trolley, and the third - the wagon, fourth in general was a driving instructor. Nothing, manage to him least of all claims and complaints, saying the park.
- At first it was difficult, did not know the routes, even falling asleep bad - I think that tomorrow will be the same? - Continues our heroine. - Once all drove the wrong way ... Nothing - orient, turned around and returned to the route. Gradually accustomed. Now I know almost all the major routes of the park, there are about 40. I love commuter. You go on the road - well, roomy, nature. In villages all my grandparents friends go, granddaughter called me, even trying to feed: yet to sell tickets, forcibly vsuchat who biscuits, apple one.



Ticketing passengers as transporters say, that even darkness. After the driver is obliged not only to control travel costs, but also to comply with the timetable. But what if you went directly to 20 people, and at the next stop you have to be in two minutes?



- Why late? - Outraged elderly woman, going to the salon in Kolodishchi. Then more people: all in a hurry to work in Minsk, nervous.
Elena was silent: what to say something? Explain that honestly went for passengers? What had to sell tickets and check travel expenses? What if auditors discover "hare", the penalty will be discharged including it? The bus fleet know about the problem, "agro Kolodishchi - virtually the only town near Minsk, where there is no city bus. In Gatovo, Borovliany, Drazdova and so on, they already go. Virtually all of Kolodishchi go to the metro station "Uruchcha." At different levels, it raises the issue of the transfer of an agro-town service buses, which have already installed the automated system and operates metropolitan tariff ».
In the meantime, a cabin built an entire queue. On the dashboard - a fan of banknotes. But still everyone has to surrender the right to count!







- Here is the grandmother goes to the metro station "Uruchcha" she's asking for alms - says the driver, as in the interior give birth decrepit old woman.



During the trip, Elena and then someone says hello. Passengers have already recognized it as his own. It is noticeable that this is the route it and that all she really likes. Very much.
- Local guys came so seriously asked offends who? Well you say, we understand, - she laughs. - No insults, although on night routes work! All is well. On the contrary, still trying to get acquainted. Once on the road I stuck right machine. Look, slowed to a stop, the guy jumped out of it and to me, they say, sell a ticket, and he let's get acquainted. Drove a couple of stops, and went out there was already one in the same car was waiting.
- Well, the hardest part of the work that? - Ask.
- Get up at three in the morning for work. (Laughs.) At the alarm clock mode is selected, in which he calls every minute. Four times refuse, on the fifth stand up, because I know - this is an extreme ... But seriously, I had one winter voyage. Left - everyone noticed ahead of the continuous veil of snow. I do not understand where the field, and where the road. It was a little scary even came late, but passengers safely brought, and this is important.
Subject suburban local roads and private patients. But Elena could not touch it. At the last stop in the village of Olden she could not even drive to the stopping point close. In the park we were told that many times appealed to the road builders, but they give the standard answers - or "refurbished" or "no money." According to his passport regular bus route to the final point means "turning circle". De jure, it is, but a de facto separate conversation ... about stopping points, which also is on the balance of local traffic organization.



- Once in the park, many complain about the drivers of cars. Well, all sorts of across. Sometimes you turn blinker, and he not only allowed, but also adds gazku that you could not be reconstructed - continues Helen. - It is rather puzzling: most cars are usually 1-2 people go, and in my cabin - 50-70. There must be some respect - if not to me as a driver, the passengers? Even before these maneuvers I have learned to predict the behavior of drivers: their reaction is easy to predict the style of driving. One would not miss the other - always slow down, and even lights will flicker, they say, go. People are different, but I do not for one do not hold grudges, and not angry. Otherwise, you can easily slide to the driver's "Harmony" - the stars YouTube. But counter motorists I usually smile, it's nice. Traffic policemen do not stop, but also escorted with a smile.



Our heroine believes that the best solution would be to allocate bandwidth for buses and trolleybuses. It would have increased the speed of communication and emphasized the importance of public transport across the city. For a single form, which plans to put all the drivers suburban buses, Helen Buday refers feminine demanded: "And it will be only the blue? Because synthetics? But the front is provided? We girls want to look every day in different ways ».



... Probably, during the lyase in the radiator which has poured the water, and had to change a punctured tire himself on the side of the bus driver could only be a man. But now everything has changed, and the shuttle bus is different from passenger cars except that size and purpose. So why go to the office on the Toyota Yaris that's fine, but to manage a scheduled MAZ - no? Helen Buday by example answers this question. Is not it great when you are lucky a nice driver!



Source: auto.onliner.by