Private sector: Transport and warehouse

Male wearing suit and tie: Literacy and numeracy are critical to the role of anyone working in the transport sector.

Numeracy is really important to the role of, for example, a bus driver.

On the boards in the driver sign on area is all the information about the rosta, the duty, and the type of route that you're operating.

Male wearing hi-vis jacket: This is the grid pattern for each bus driver, and that is his rosta.

Each rosta is different.

So Monday, I would've been on 20 duty, signs on at 5:25, finishes at 13:17, and the duty value is seven hours and 17 minutes.

Male wearing zip up top: If they're doing roadworks and it's gonna be an extended roadworks, they're gonna be on for, say, a month or two months, they'll produce a map for Manchester showing you where your new diversion is gonna be.

Male wearing suit and tie: We are collecting fares and it's obviously important that we make sure we give people the correct change.

It's very important that we know the height, the width, the length of the vehicle.

Male wearing zip up top: Because if they send you on a diversion and you've got a low bridge, we have instances where the double deckers turned into a single decker cause blokes have just gone bowling down the street and took the top off the bus.

Male wearing suit and tie: We have a lot of legal obligations upon us all, and one of the ones that, for example, a bus driver has, is that they have to do a daily safety check of their vehicle to ensure that it's completely roadworthy, reporting any defects that they may have with the vehicle.

It's very important that the driver can clearly write and clearly describe the particular item that's gone so that the engineer who's then reading it later on in the day can understand it and then effect that repair.

Warehouse worker: Working in the warehouse, we have various different things that I'll be doing today to do with like literacy and numeracy.

When getting orders from deliveries, we have to bring them in and make sure that they're corresponding with the delivery notes that we get, i.e. the weight, the packaging, making sure it's matching the invoice ready for putting away then.

Male wearing suit and tie: I would recommend to anyone who wants to join the bus sector, that they are brushed up on their numeracy and literacy, you know, we're all tested on it, and, you know, you won't get by in this sector without it.