In our concluding look at the life and travelling times of Glasgow based Michael Fallone, we turn back the clock to the day when our man was invited up the stairs to the office of Donald Malcolm. And, of course, that introduction, back in ’89, led to him taking a job for life, as Bob Tuck tells his story – the Busman’s Holiday. Images by Michael Fallone.
NAILED IT! In the grand old scheme of things, I suppose it doesn’t matter if you need two, three or even more attempts to pass your test but of course Michael was well chuffed in being able to sail through his Class 1 (C+E/artic) HGV driving test at the very first try.
In fairness, he had spent the previous nine years piloting a big Glasgow PTE double decker backwards and forwards through the city, so busy traffic was never going to faze him.
True, the buses were semi-automatics, so he had to get used to changing gear again and he had to learn how to reverse something which always bends in the middle. But the week long driving course (he had paid for) behind the wheel of an ex-Tennent’s Brewery TL Bedford artic brought success. So now what?
