Is Drive Green a load of rubbish?

I'm beginning to strongly suspect that it is serious crap. If you have a Volvo then you'll probably get a good driving score, but if you have a Scania then you can guarantee that you'll get an amber or red flashing light at every roundabout or bend you go round, no matter how smoothly or gently you turn. So it's more of a reflection of what bus you drove that day than your driving style or skills.

Of course it is a load of bollocks. Scanias are thirsty bastards. You should see Arriva's DAF Snails, slight touch on the throttle and the whole lot light up. A waste of money, but Worst are good at doing that..FTR anyone?

Drive green is rubbish and i think First are losing interest in it too.

Arriva have got bored with it too by the looks. I was on 1 bus recently and it was disconnected, because it was faulty.

K1YRL wrote:Drive green is rubbish and i think First are losing interest in it too.

Had two buses in one day that had non functioning Drive Green on them. Which was brilliant!!

It is only good in the states where roads go on for 50 miles without junctions or bends. They need it cos a lot of vehicles still have stupid big V8 petrols!

Your right daisy, its basically a reflection of what bus you drove that day. Even that, we have 9 09 plate Volvo B7RLE's. If you floor 6 of them from standing start you wont get an amber for accleration, other 3 you get an amber. All on exactly the same gearbox/power setting. Its just not consistant enough to function properly, especially when they are giving away money through it. Also, if you brake, but dont quite stop then acclerate away away quite gently, i find you nearly always get either a red or amber flashing light for it. Its a joke!

Our don't like roundabouts and there is plenty of them up in East Kibride

Looks like the poor sods at Frogdevolia Coastliner have it too

We're getting it too

Just when companies like First and Arriva are looking at dropping it because it doesn't work

Bristol LH wrote:Just when companies like First and Arriva are looking at dropping it because it doesn't work

My boss is adamant that the Pink F are not giving it up!!

Daisy Dart wrote:

Bristol LH wrote:Just when companies like First and Arriva are looking at dropping it because it doesn't work

My boss is adamant that the Pink F are not giving it up!!

Wondered what he was doing now

Daft bugger lol

Well i am led to believe that as of this saturday there will be no green road system in Leeds because they are taking them out of all the buses.

Hopefully it will be the same for us lot.

K1YRL wrote:Well i am led to believe that as of this saturday there will be no green road system in Leeds because they are taking them out of all the buses.

Well that was a total bloody waste of money then!!

Maybe Wirst would like to try a different money saving method next time, decent and actual preventative maintenance perhaps?

I have heard some Metrobuses have turned up at Hunslet Park!

Bristol LH wrote:I have heard some Metrobuses have turned up at Hunslet Park!

Well they have closed Cherry Row,so the school buses which were based there are now at Hunslet and will be based there from now on.

Erm, that will make parking even tighter! You can barely get a fag paper between the buses there on a night already.

You know, I've never actually noticed them on any of our vehicles. Maybe they'd just be useless and not worth using around here due to the nature of the routes and area in general (constantly changing terrain therefore often needing harshly changing braking and acceleration, etc). I assume they'd be quite noticable from outside the cab, from what I've seen on that video about them the lights are mounted in quite a visible position on the top of the dashboard or thereabouts.

Mind you, on the other hand, FC can't afford to spend a penny on anything at the moment and can't even keep up what they already have, so...