A passenger on a Nakedbus journey last weekend says she was stunned when the bus ran out of fuel.
The Wellington to Auckland service came to a halt outside a Cambridge service station on Saturday.
The driver, who had slept in that morning and will face extra safety training after the fuel gaffe, then informed travellers he couldn't fill up there because he had a fuel card for another gas company in the town.
He had to dig into his pocket to put enough fuel into the bus to get them to the other service station so he could then use his company fuel card.
Melanie Blood, a media and information systems student at Victoria University, was travelling with a friend to Hamilton on Saturday morning for a 21st birthday party.