“The battery boiled. And then everything burned to the ground "

Why exactly tourist buses are more likely to fall into terrible accidents: “new” was told by drivers

On the highway "Kola" in Karelia on January 11, a motor caught fire in a tourist bus. Passengers were saved, but for a long time they waited for another transport on the sidelines. On January fourth, the tourist bus completely burned down in the center of St. Petersburg. He was jamming on a tour of the artists of the children's theater who came to the festival from Barnaul. None of the children were injured, but the entire props burned. On the night of December 29-30, a bus with tourists from Minsk came from the highway to St. Petersburg near Pskov. 24 people were injured. On the first of December, in St. Petersburg, a bus caught fire on the go, traveling with passengers to the resort area.

The most sensational “bus” fire in St. Petersburg happened last summer - August 14 in Shushara. He felt, fortunately, not because of the number of victims, but simply because people went to the wedding. An exciting videos filmed by registrars appeared on the network: In puffs of smoke, elegant ladies with bouquets jump onto the road. No one was injured, but the bus burned to the ground. It belonged to the Travel Company "Aspect+".

And recently, a letter came to the “New”. The topic was indicated as follows: “Why are passenger buses overturning to the ditch, traveling into the oncoming lane, pressing people on the sidewalks and burning with passengers.” The driver who worked in the company "Aspect+" wrote on the very "wedding" bus. We will call him conditionally Sergey. And then the names of our few, frankly, interlocutors - bus drivers will be changed. Those few who agreed to meet showed documents confirming the work in travel agencies. Namely - copies of contracts, extracts from work books, if there were, if not, surviving route sheets or discs from tachographs. But everything as one asked not to call names, but it is better not to quote them at all. Everyone wanted to continue to work.

"Because everything rotted"

“A month before the“ wedding ”fire, I began to complain to the director of the wiring in the bus,” said Sergey from Aspect+. - They did not answer me. Somehow I took the people on a tour of Peter, and on the shooter of the Vasilievsky Island I had boiled batteries. And there, lead, acid, all this evaporates, goes outside and to the salon. The company sent another bus with the driver, and I drove this one for repairs. They set up new batteries - and go. After 3 days, the starter closed. Put a new one. Two days later, the generator burned down.

After the story of the wiring, Sergey left the "aspect". The driver who accepted the car managed to drive a week - and the bus burned to the skeleton, almost destroying the whole wedding. He burned along with new batteries, generators and starter.

“Once I was the children to the camp, I had to drive 120 kilometers,” Sergey recalls another incident. - At the exit from St. Petersburg, on a flat highway, the rear bumper with lanterns fell off at the car on the move.

Just because everything rotted, the rear plumage of the bus hid all this rot and rust, but no one examined it, did not wash, did not serve.

The repair was hanged on me, although I only accepted the car for two weeks. And somehow he returned at 6 in the morning from Pskov, he wanted to sleep off, and then they call me from the office: at 8 in the morning the next flight, take people and take it to Boxygorsk. Without sleeping, not Evshi.

According to SPARK, Aspect+LLC was registered in March 2016. As the drivers are made there - a riddle, because, as follows from the information in the SPARK database, all the staff consists of 1 person. At the same time, the companies hang enforcement proceedings for 390 thousand rubles: road fines not paid since 2018.

"Medical certificates were issued in packs"

According to the order of the Ministry of Transport No. 296 of August 8, 2018, before each long flight, mechanics in the park should check the condition of the bus. Upon returning to the park, check again. And the driver must undergo a pre -trip physical examination every morning.

The driver Igor worked for several months in the company "Turkholding Areal". For all the time, he says, neither medical, nor inspection before flights had never passed.

“I myself always checked the motor compartment, engine oil, brakes, steering,” he explains. - Located in order in the cabin. But before each departure, the bus should inspect the mechanics and sign. And we were simply given out stamped track sheets a month in advance. The same thing - with medical examinations: medical certificates with a doctor’s seals were given in packs for a month.

The owners of transport companies came up with a way to avoid pre -trip inspections so that they are not responsible for accidents: they take buses for private traders.

“They conclude a lease with such a private trader - and he is responsible for the car, not the company,” Igor explains. -Actually, the owner of the bus is obliged to conclude an agreement with a company who has a license for technical inspections, and to pass them on his own, but in fact no one does it. In the same way - with a medical examination.

In the "Areal" he saw at all only one bus owned by the company.

“But in the season and on the weekend, the owner hired 18 pieces per day,” Igor continues. - He did not care what condition the bus was in.

The cars are old, constantly stood right on the highway. I got to buses, which are 30 years old. They were tinted, trampled outside - and go.

Igor took daily examinations in only one company - Macertrel, established in Russia by a citizen of China named Zhao Zhui.

“Yeah, there were new buses from the factory,” his colleague Eugene confirms with a laugh. - We drove them from China through Novosibirsk. I shot cellophanes with seats with my own hands. Only they began to break already along the way from China, when the mileage was less than 10 thousand.

According to SPARK, there is no drivers at all in the company of Mr. Zhao at all, because there is only one employee - the general director. Buses, according to Spark, the company has neither property nor leasing. Drivers are talking about the monstrous schedule of trips without rest and sleep. So that the drivers do not spend time traveling home between flights, Mr. Zhao Zhui ordered to put beds in the common room right in the fleet. It was possible to sleep on the bus. Pokemaril an hour or two-and again on the road. With such loading in the company and the money turnover should be impressive. But for 2018, according to the SPARK, Macertrel paid all taxes, contributions to the Pension Fund, compulsory medical insurance and social insurance totaling 88 thousand 598 rubles.

"Why did my husband get into slavery?"

Galina is Igor's wife. She is a doctor, not a driver. But in the three years that the husband drove tourists so deeply plunged into orders, laws, instructions related to passenger transportation, which can go even to driver, even to lawyers.

“The husband changed four places of work, but everywhere the same thing,” she says.

- Drivers are silent, afraid to lose their earnings. They, as a rule, are not legally savvy, do not know laws and their rights.

While working at the Areal Tourholding, Igor returned from flights late at night. Somehow I did not have time to take off my house, they called from the office: one of the buses broke again, you need to choose tourists. There were 150 kilometers to drive. By this time, Igor had already spent 18 hours behind the wheel.

“I got up at 4 in the morning to get to the bus parking to six, and from there I went to the city center for passengers,” he describes his working day. -Departure at 6.45-6.50. We reached Priozersk, on the way stopped for 15-20 minutes. In Priozersk, tourists go on an excursion - I have half an hour to rest. Then the distillation is two hours to Sortavala. When the tourists have lunch, I have another half an hour. Then they have a tour for two hours. Then I would sleep, but passengers are returning, someone needs to take something out of the bus, leave someone. On the way back there is a stop at the store in Lahdenpokhier, this is for me another half an hour to rest. Then we hurry to Petersburg to be in time until the metro closes, and we go three or four hours without stops. Having landed passengers, I’m refueling, I’m going to the parking lot, I check the car and clean it in the cabin. At the second hour of the morning I am going home. Get up at 4 in the morning.

One morning, when her husband, as usual, was going to work, having slept for two hours, Galina looked at his face and ran after the tonometer. The pressure was 180. And it was necessary to take tourists to Karelia.

“I went to Karelia almost every day, passed 800 kilometers a day,” says Igor. - I slept two, if lucky - 4 hours.

And he shows his schedule of work in the “Areal Tourholding” in July 2017: July 1-2-2-day flight, July 3-4-2-day flight, July 5-Repair, July 6-7-2-day flight. And so on. Without a single weekend. This is confirmed by the order-orders.

"Orders of an authorized person"

Igor got a job in “Turkholding Areal” in June 2017. The only document that he was given for signature was a consistency agreement for the entrusted bus.

“Companies hire drivers without formal employment,” he explains. -If a person demands, they can give him some agreement. The text will have a bunch of violations that he still will not notice. And the norms of working time, salary, rest and sleep mode will not be indicated.

Igor is not quite right. For example, the Aspect+company (remember the Wedding Bus?) With his colleague Sergey, the employment contract concluded. The "new" has a copy. The section “Working time” section is very well written there: “The time and end time of the working day, breaks for relaxation and meals, as well as the weekends are determined by the rules of the internal routine of the enterprise and orders of the authorized person.”

There is an order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation No. 15 of August 20, 2004, where the “Features of the working time and rest time regime” are described more specifically than in the Aspect agreement. With mandatory stops for relaxation, the total time behind the wheel should not exceed 10 hours a day. Two drivers should go on flights of the longer duration. So that the work schedule and rest is not violated, government decree No. 153 prescribes to equip buses with tachographs.

“The tachograph counts time and signals: it's time to rest,” Sergey explains. - The second driver should drive behind the wheel. But the second driver is not given in such companies.

What to do? You turn off the tachograph and go on. The traffic police cannot control this: the traffic cops themselves told me that they did not know how to decipher the notes of the tachograph.

Such a device in St. Petersburg has a transport police only on Palace, on the Strelka of Vasilyevsky Island, at the blood Savior and even in a pair of tourist places. If they get caught there that the driver violated the regime, then he pays the fine himself, not the company.

Recognized unreliable

When Igor nevertheless went to work with jumping pressure, Galina could not stand it and called the owner of the company "Turholding Areal" to Sergey Dunaevsky.

- Literally I said this: “Why do I have the feeling that my husband is in slavery? You promised to give him a reputable driver, but he still works alone, ”the woman says. -And Dunaevsky answered me: “Do you like something? Your husband is fired. "

- What is the dismissal? - picks up Igor. “It's not that you just lose your work.” You are left without a last salary. Absolutely everywhere the salary is “gray”, if not “black”.

You will receive only the scanty that is indicated in the contract.

The agreement between Sergey and Aspect+indicates a salary of 8 thousand rubles per month. Igor says that he was usually promised a “white” part of more: 15-16 thousand. The rest was called a "bonus." She was paid or did not pay at the discretion of the employer.

“The“ premium ”was transferred to the card, as it were, from a private person,” says Igor. - Upon dismissal, you simply did not receive them.

He shows statements from the bank account and from the pension fund. If you believe the second document, then in 2017 Igor did not work at all, and in 2018 for only a month and a half he worked in Macertrel and received 25904 rubles 76 kopecks for this. Of which 4144 rubles went for a future pension.

Upon dismissal from the Areal, he was not paid. On the last working day, says Igor, the owner of the company Dunaevsky invited him to come for the calculation, but certainly grab his copy of the contract. The same is about liability. This was the main evidence that Igor worked for the company. The request was alerted by Galina - and she made a notarial copy of the document. Thanks to this, the family managed to sue 126 thousand rubles for 2 months of work. True, it was not possible to get money from the "area". Enforcement proceedings against the company are still opened open, but the payer is no longer there.

According to SPARK, LLC Turholding Areal was registered in January 2017 not from scratch. Before it was the Hood Life company, the same Dunaevsky was listed as its only founder and general director. During registration, he indicated the address, which the Federal Tax Service then recognized as invalid. For the whole of 2017, the company, where buses hired dozens for excursions, paid taxes for 2605 rubles. In June 2018, she was checked by the labor inspectorate for “compliance by the employer with the requirements of labor legislation”. The audit lasted 2 hours, the auditors did not find violations. In October 2019, Rostransnadzor answered Igor that the company "does not carry out entrepreneurial activity." It is excluded from the register of legal entities.

In the "Areal", which replaced the "Guide Life", the director was the closest relative of the owner Svetlana Dunaevskaya. She, according to the SPARK, was the only full -time unit in the company. The address of this office, specified in the documents, the Federal Tax Service also recognized him inaccurate. According to the results of 2017, the net profit shown by the "Areal" amounted to 28 thousand rubles. The total amount of taxes is 44075 rubles. In July 2017, a new company of Dunaevsky appeared-Gid Life Tour LLC. And she also indicated the address at which neither potential creditors nor tax could find it. The company's annual profit amounted to 34 thousand rubles. Then it was excluded from the register of legal entities.

No more enterprises are listed on Dunaev. Meanwhile, the site "Guide Life" continues to advertise "Tours to Karelia from St. Petersburg." If you dial a phone number, they will tell you how actively the company "does not operate". Every Saturday at 7 am from the Zvenigorodskaya metro station in St. Petersburg, regular buses with tourists are sent on a two -day tour to Karelia. Cost - 5590 rubles per person. There are other fascinating "tours in Russia" lasting from one to three days.

"Can't serve as a basis"

Igor stubbornly searched for a company where one could not risk killing and killing passengers. A month and a half sat without work.

“The city is large, the influx of tourists is huge, the buses are not enough catastrophically, and it is difficult to get a driver,” he explains. -

As soon as you ask about the official employment, about the official salary, you are asked to wait for a bell - and that’s it.

Some simply said that it is unprofitable to draw up a bunch of papers, pay them to the pension fund, or get so - or look for another place. One company openly said: we must wait until they receive information from the labor inspectorate if I once complained. And then, they say, we take a person, and he begins to download the rights. Is this legal if the labor inspectorate gives them such information?

Igor found a company where outwardly everything seemed to be satisfied, Igor found 100 kilometers from St. Petersburg. IP Svetlana Father's impression made a solid impression. Every year, according to the data on the public procurement website, the company received from local authorities a contract for the transportation of delegations. But in the end, the only confirmation of the fact that Igor generally worked for Luga IP was the excellent characteristic issued to him upon dismissal. Recently, the company was checked by the tax, but they did not want to tell about the results of the “new” there.

The family of Galina and Igor really wanted to pay taxes to live calmly. Not afraid that from the next work you will again have to leave without money. They wrote to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Federal Tax Service, Rostransnadzor, Rospotrebnadzor, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the UK, the Rostrud ... It seems that there was no instance where Galina would not send the answer: the appeal was accepted, thanks.

“The answers from all instances were stated clearly on time,” Galina grins. - Not a single official violated the deadlines. But the answers are reduced to send my letter somewhere.

She took a sheet A4 and made a scheme with arrows: who sent it and where. It turned out 11 arrow. The official in Rosstandart turned out to be the most touching: he personally called Galina and asked to quickly provide such and such papers so that he could send her to the right address on time. And then, he added, for violation of the deadlines, his bosses will punish.

But the winner in the answer competition can be considered the St. Petersburg Labor Inspectorate. Galina and Igor wrote to them that bus drivers want to sleep the due number of hours and pay taxes on salaries, and for this they need to be made to work officially. Ответ пришел такой: ваши отношения с работодателями не оформлены официально, поэтому «обращение не может служить основанием для внеплановой проверки».

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PS «Новая» попыталась связаться с представителями компаний, названных нашими собеседниками. Для этого у нас были номера телефонов, указанные ими при регистрации. Но ни один не ответил. Тогда мы спросили у водителей, как они связывались с работодателями. И получили два сотовых: владельца «куста», в который входили «Гид лайф» и еще две компании, и некоего директора, работающего в Петербурге от лужского ИП Погожей. По первому мужчина в ответ на «Здравствуйте, Сергей Анатольевич!» любезно поздоровался, но, услышав вопросы, сказал, что это ошибка, телефон уже принадлежит другому человеку. По второму «директор» не отрицал, что ИП Погожей ему знакомо, но на вопросы отвечать не стал. По телефонам, указанным на сайте gidlife.ru, «Новой» сообщили, что прежних компаний действительно не существует и теперь сайт работает совсем с другими юрлицами. Какими — секрет. На письменный запрос ответили так: «Сайт не имеет никого отношения ни к одной из перечисленных организаций. Собственники сменились, нынешнее юридическое лицо и его руководство не несет ответственности за действия других лиц. Мы не располагаем своим автопарком, а пользуемся услугами лицензированных перевозчиков. Поэтому никаких комментариев дать не можем».

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