Re: [Melb] Odd ticket

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

The bus driver takes your money and then keys in the info, and the passenger
puts it in the validator to print the details on it. If it doesn't print,
the driver can pocket the money as the ticket hasn't been issued. Sometimes
the validator misfunctions fully printing the ticket, but printing out a
failed to issue slip. Again the bus driver can pocket the cash. A driver
with a faulty validator on his regular bus can make a lot of money in weeks
before the faulty validator is repaired (if someone reports it!)

Cheers
John wayman

"Rail Roamer" <leadscout@one.net.au> wrote in message
3a95d8bf_4@news01.one.net.au">news:3a95d8bf_4@news01.one.net.au...
> Something also running around my mind (scarey huh?) about metcards from
> buses being blank and not having any details on them until placed into the
> drivers machine. If not validated within 2-3mins of running through
drivers
> machine card will not validate and become useless. During my Report of
> Offence course we had a few bus drivers telling us about it.
>
> Anyone able to clarify????
>
> "Chris Gordon" <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3A951B5C.98A31063@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au...
> > > Just walking down the street and found a Metcard which is completely
> blank
> > > except that on the side where expiry dates etc are printed in the
middle
> it
> > > says "***INVALID***" and the message about remembering to validate it.
> > >
> > > How could a Metcard get into such a state? If it was prepurchased off
> the
> > > system it should say the type of ticket on the front, but it doesn't.
If
> it
> > > was purchased out of a machine it should have the ticket type printed
on
> the
> > > back.
> >
> > It would have been pre-loaded inside a machine (either tram, or train
> > station) and because it wasn't used in 10 minutes, printed
> > "***INVALID***" and dumped in the back.  Then once the machine was
> > serviced it must have got free....
> >
> > (Reason for this is after 10 minutes the ticket will curl up, and it is
> > pre-loaded and printed with the slogan to save time)
> >
> > > Dropped/stolen from a ticket machine or a bus perhaps?
> >
> > Dropped as rubbish from inside a machine.
> >
> > > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
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