Mike’s three million miles at the wheel
BRITAIN’S most travelled coach driver has racked up three million miles and 40 years behind the wheel.
Veteran Mike Davies, 68, has driven National Express’s longest direct service – 580 miles from Edinburgh to Plymouth – for the past eight years.
He started in transport as a bus conductor in 1970.
The grandad-of-five from Kirkcaldy, Fife, said: “National Express is a British institution and it’s impossible to travel any distance on motorways without spotting one.
“Coaches have really changed – scratchy velvet seats went out years ago – it’s all leather now and technology has been a real game changer.”
National Express turns 45 this year and its coaches have done 3.5 billion miles.