Most Auckland buses will be off the road this morning but back in time for the evening peak.

The disruption to services is so NZ Bus drivers and cleaners can meet to discuss a new pay-offer.

NZ Bus runs 70 per cent of Auckland's bus network including Metrolink, North Star, Waka Pacific, Go West, Link and City Circuit services. All of the services will be off the road between 10am and 1.30pm while the meeting takes place.

The 900 drivers and cleaners will meet to discuss a revised pay offer from the company which is being backed by unions.

NZ Bus and the unions representing drivers reached an agreement last week but neither side have revealed what the final figure is.

The new deal is understood to be an improvement on a previous company offer of increases amounting to $1.80 an hour by the final stage of a three-year document.

NZ Bus services were off the road for a week last month when Infratil-owned NZ Bus locked out drivers after they decided to work strictly to the rulebook.

That meant 80,000 workers and 10,000 students had to find other ways to and from work and school.

The lockout cost the bus company more than $1 million in lost subsidies after the Auckland Regional Council stopped paying the company and threatened to cancel contracts.

- NZ HERALD STAFF