In fact, he’s right in the middle of them - on the bus.

As a South West Coach Lines bus driver, Daniel has been driving the leavers bus route for the last three years. During this year’s Leavers Week, which started on Monday, he is doing only evening shifts, driving leavers to and from the new leavers-only zone on Vasse-Yallingup Siding Road, Quindalup.

His shift starts at 7.30pm and finishes at 2am.

Last year he carried 25,000 passengers and this year he is anticipating a few more, with the transport system being more extensive than previous years.

When meeting up with the Mail he said he found the bus service better organised this year and because the event was further away from town, leavers were not out walking the streets at night like they were in previous years, which was dangerous.

Now they could only get there by bus, “so all of them will be on the bus instead of just walking around aimlessly”.

So what is it really like to spend that much time with leavers at night?

“It’s not as bad as most people think,” he said.

“They are fairly noisy and singing most of the time, and they cause a bit of a mess, but at the end of the day they are just having a bit of fun and they don’t cause much more trouble than that.”

According to Daniel, he hasn’t experienced any “abnormal incidents”, but some leavers have been sick on the bus and haven’t even got to the event or where they wanted to go.

Despite the late hours and the noise, Daniel stays concentrated on the road and lets the kids do their thing.

“I never get really tired at that time of the night. Because you are picking up young kids, you don’t really have the chance or time to get tired.”

And if there’s no-one on the bus, he always has the security guard to talk to.

Daniel thinks it is better to have the event from Monday to Thursday, rather than over the weekend, because that’s when the older people come along, and they have caused arguments in the past. Only leavers are allowed on the buses, though.