Job Summary

Island Express Bus Inc. also known as Islandlink has been providing transportation services from Victoria to Campbell River starting in 1998.  Islandlink caters to the Departure Bay ferry out of Horseshoe Bay.

Islandlink is a connector bus picking up passengers and taking them to Departure Bay and in turn, boarding passengers in Departure Bay taking them to points north and south to Campbell River, Tofino and Victoria.  Departure Bay is our one and only stop in Nanaimo.

We are a small private company and all drivers require a home computer with printer and cellular telephone for work from home as well as on the road.  All drivers are to be based in Port Alberni.

The planned schedule will be 4 days on then 4 days off with one part-time driver.

Responsibilities and Duties

Each working day, your day will start with printing your manifest from our website www.islandlinkbus.com .  Details of the day will be posted and emailed for you to follow.  Become familiar with your day, stops to be made, special requests noted and know your number of passengers each trip.

You are to pre-trip your vehicle thoroughly and ensure your vehicle and all papers are in order for the day.

Your manifest will dictate how your day will go.

Each trip, you will be meeting and greeting reserved passengers on your manifest and selling vacant seats to those unreserved passengers.  There is cash handling involved.

You are expected to drive the speed limit as the schedule is based on the speed limit, there is no need to speed.

Upon arrival in Departure Bay, ensure all passengers have their luggage and belongings and ensure no items have been left behind.

On your next trip, you start again to board your passengers as noted on your manifest and if space is available, cash sales are welcome.  From Departure Bay, you drop off the passengers as needed and finish your trip by again ensuring no items have been left behind and passengers all have their baggage.

At the end of your day, you will fuel and clean the vehicle.  We operate clean buses.  Our drivers take pride in having clean buses.  At the end of your working day the bus is washed, swept, cleared of head grime on the windows and wipe down hard surfaces.   To finish our day, the bus is sprayed with Lysol, the doors shut and locked.

Once home, you are to again go to your computer and report your day’s events.  This task will take 5 to 10 minutes if you have good notes.  You will enter your bus details and passenger details and expenses for the day.  This is to be done prior to midnight each working day.

Available Positions and Salary

We are now actively seeking to hire drivers based in Port Alberni:

• Unrestricted class 4 licence with clean abstract and driving record,
• 'Clean' police check,
• 3 permanent full-time; 10.5 hours/day, 4 days/week @ $258.50 + 4%/day + applicable stats, to start.
• 1 permanent part-time; 10.5 hours/day, 2 days/week @ $258.50 + 4%/day + applicable stats, to start.
• Payroll is semi-monthly,
• Approximate start/finish work hours: either 8:15am - 6:45pm or 7:00am - 5:30pm (full & part-time).
• To commence May 11 - May 18, 2023. N.B. we operate every day of the year except Dec 25.
• Must reside in Port Alberni.