(23 Feb 2014, 12:19 pm)Davey Bowyer wrote Why don't Arriva install radios on their buses for? It would massively help the reliability of some services and would stop bunching. I was going down the Coast Road yesterday and two 308's were bunching past Holy Cross towards Newcastle. If they had radios installed, the driver infront could've simply put an RTS through for the one behind to take all his passengers and he would've been able to run dry to Newcastle and leave almost on time.

We used to have a radio system at Durham, but the vast majority of the time buses were out of range and therefore the radios wouldn't work, simply because of the amount of countryside and rural routes that we ran, so we were left to use phones anyway.

With regards to sending a bus empty after transferring passengers, this would increase lost mileage, something which the company is trying to crack down on as much as possible. All it takes is for buses to 'bunnyhop' each other and its amazing how much difference it makes to making up time.