(17 May 2014, 7:10 pm)Jimmi wrote The worst I had was a sour faced woman driving the 5A which was running about 5 minutes late then when we got to Newton Aycliffe Town Centre she got out the bus for a fag and played with her phone for another 5 minutes, meaning the service ended up running over 10 minutes late, then when we got to Harrowgate Hill roundabout I saw the X66 I wanted to catch go past so I then kicked right off with her, so I ended up waiting 20 minutes in the rain
I think a lot of Arriva Durham's older drivers have continued on with the firm having been employed during United's tenure (in my opinion, I think United, although before my time, were an excellent company, and I prefer the name United to Arriva), but a lot of the younger drivers are probably just doing it because they want extra money for further education etc, while I think a lot of the middle aged drivers can be quite rude.
I don't want to sound hypocritical, but a lot of the slightly more overweight Arriva drivers have been ignorant with me in the past. A few that are the exact opposite have even pulled the ticket out of the machine for me. In my opinion, the ex-United drivers are the best ones.
I don't know what it's like at Darlington or Stockton, but that's what I think of Arriva Durham's drivers. I'm glad I got that off my chest
