Video: TfL investigating as cyclist films bus driver placing bets on mobile

The only appropriate action Arriva can take is to sack the driver and report him to the Police. Whether it will happen or not is another matter.

Quite apart from the road safety issue, I'd get fired if I was caught betting on company time

Given their drivers have deliberately tried to hit me on several occasions, I dont think increasing the chances of accidentally doing it will bother them much. 

Try and get the HSE interested in their lack of safe working systems that don't allow them to identify the driver? 

They won't identify the driver. They'll say they don't know who was driving the bus. Obviously bollocks, but what can you do?

Nothing will happen, nothing! Unless the guy crushed a pedestrian then maybe something but only maybe. Just look at that c*nt jailed today. Arriva will just have a laugh in the office, maybe cause their PR advisor to submit a few invoices and then they'll get back to doing nothing while TfL happily ignore the whole thing and push it back on Arriva. 

Class D vocational licence - and Conduct of Bus Drivers ...(&c) Regulations 1990 (SI 2015)  Technically I guess section 4 which has (since 1936) made mobile phone use illegal for bus drivers (forward thinking legislation then!).  Standard RTA legislation also applies.

No need for Court appearance Traffic Commissioner can revoke Class D licence for poor repute/conduct.

Rather than shout, driver is obliged to give details to any person reasonably requiring them Conduct Regs Section 5, or a Police Officer.  Really a pity that the rule requiring a bus driver to display their PSV licence at all times lapsed in 1960's then you only need to photograph the licence badge.

Bus operator details in 1" block lettering on left side of bus (legal requirement)

If driver resigns it make life easy all round - no sacking on his work history, no risk of the company getting hit post-sacking for any unfair dismissal claims (paperwork greatly simplified - all happy!)  You may recall that the driver of the Glasgow Bin Lorry worked this way to cover his medical issues, as unlike a masters certificate, pilot's or train driver's licence which has a record of every flight or voyage you've made, a driving licence carries no such history.

I wonder if the HSE might (maybe) be interested in this case? 

I know that they don't like to overlap with the Police, even where the legislation would allow, but if you were to emphasize the Police can handle the traffic offenses and that your HSE concern was with the corporate duties....... Company processes/monitoring/training/duty of care to passengers/lack of follow up once reported to them(if that's the case), maybe particularly with the recent case mentioned above and the high price lack of action there.

Normally this sort of thing is fine until he kills someone:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-37283994

about par for this country, 7 strikes and you are out.

wouldn't bother.....bored reporting 'First Bus' drivers...all that happens is a standard letter 2 months later saying we pride ourselves........serious matter..........investigate........blah blah blah. With hard evidence I would go straight to the Police

Frankly, that driver is literally insane, should never be allowed to drive again, let alone a bus.  The bus company has to sack him immediately, followed by prosecution, and incarceration at her majesty's pleasure and a lifetime ban.

To be honest, driving and using a mobile may be illegal, but it is now so frequent that it has become unremarkable.  After the death caused by the eight times caught van driver, the law has to be changed with immediate loss of licence for a minimum of a year, with a second offence attracting a lifetime ban, with no appeals for hardship.

Good god - I cant believe that the bus driver was so adamant he was doing no wrong? How is a person so moronic in such, or any, employment? Mind you I expect he wont be for long and can also soon expect a tap on the shoulder from the boys in blue of the MET!