Never too old to drive a bus if you’re healthy

Festive cheer: Hameed Mytheen (in baju Melayu) handing over a goody bag to Abu at the Melaka Sentral bus terminal while Muhammad Firdaus (second from left) looks on.

MELAKA: A 70-year-old was among the oldest express bus drivers that Melaka Road Transport Department (JPJ) director Muhammad Firdaus Shariff has ever come across in his line of duty.

“This is the first time I am hearing of an elderly man ferrying passengers on the long haul from Johor to Thailand,” he said during a road safety campaign in conjunction with Hari Raya at the Melaka Sentral bus terminal here on Wednesday night.