National Express West Midlands on hunt for 150 new bus drivers
National Express West Midlands is creating 150 bus driver jobs - and holding a recruitment drive for them this weekend.
Potential drivers are invited to a recruitment day on Saturday in Birmingham.
National Express spokesman Jack Kelly said that the vast majority of the jobs were in South Birmingham.
The recruitment day is taking place from 9am to 3pm on Saturday at the company's Acocks Green depot in Fox Hollies Road, Acocks Green.
Potential drivers will be able to look around the depot and bus displays and talk to staff members about working for National Express and find out what they need to do to apply for a job as a trainee bus driver.
Free return travel tickets to get to the depot, where car parking will not be available, are available from local job centres.
National Express West Midlands has just launched a £4 million fleet of new luxurious buses which will give passengers extra leg room, free wifi, high backed leather seats and next stop announcements as well as faster journeys.
The 18 new vehicles are operating on the 900 and 957 services passing Birmingham Airport.
The buses are ultra low emission and have an eye catching grey exterior with flashes of brilliant red – unlike anything currently on the roads of the West Midlands.
The buses are part of a record £34 million investment in 171 new vehicles by National Express West Midlands during 2015.
Another new bus is arriving every day and by September all 171 of the new vehicles will be carrying passengers.
The investment will mean that National Express West Midlands deliver on its Transforming Bus Travel pledge with public transport co-ordinator Centro to deliver 300 new buses over a two-year period.
