Does this wizardry take into account variables like city driving, hills A roads and B roads with bendy bits and general pebbyness from other drivers?
Shouldn’t make any difference to the overall score other than maybe getting a lower rate for braking. I did a multidrop in Leeds then a drop in Brighouse and two drops in Huddersfield in rush hour taking the hilly A road out of Brighouse and still got a B. I’ve got a score of A - 1.00 with all the runs involving going over the A66 every night. Braking is the one that’ll get you on days.
Perhaps it’s just me, but personally I’d rather that drivers of large hgv’s (and coaches) keep their eye on the road and what is happening around them out there, rather than keep looking down at the dashboard to see if they are ‘still in the green’.
But you don’t need to with an autobox. It’ll only go out of the green if you’re pressing the loud pedal harder than you need to or manually shifting. Even with a manual you get to know what the top of the green band sounds like.
If you drive the same truck week in week out as i have and many others.It’s easy enough to listen to the engine to know if she’s in the green band or not.No need to keep looking down at the rev counter at all.Also don’t floor the accelerator.It’s really not that hard once you get used too it.And change your driving style a bit.
Does this wizardry take into account variables like city driving, hills A roads and B roads with bendy bits and general pebbyness from other drivers?
Shouldn’t make any difference to the overall score other than maybe getting a lower rate for braking. I did a multidrop in Leeds then a drop in Brighouse and two drops in Huddersfield in rush hour taking the hilly A road out of Brighouse and still got a B. I’ve got a score of A - 1.00 with all the runs involving going over the A66 every night. Braking is the one that’ll get you on days.
Perhaps it’s just me, but personally I’d rather that drivers of large hgv’s (and coaches) keep their eye on the road and what is happening around them out there, rather than keep looking down at the dashboard to see if they are ‘still in the green’.
But you don’t need to with an autobox. It’ll only go out of the green if you’re pressing the loud pedal harder than you need to or manually shifting. Even with a manual you get to know what the top of the green band sounds like.
Even when pressing the loud pedal normally, my Renault will go out of the green band when changing up, not by much mind. Not that I care too much. When I’m empty I use the “power” option that revs it higher before changing. Its fun to beat cars off the line.
Plastic chicken:
My Scanny rigid has this system, & I try to score as high as I can, so I can wear a smug grin. I’ve got the progressive braking up to 87% & revs 97%. However the third score is supposed to rate performance up & over hills & I can’t get more than 55%, bringing the average of the three right down. Apparently you’re supposed to ease off the gas before you reach a crest & let momentum take you up & over, but doing that doesn’t improve the score…anybody got any suggestions? (Plus, how could the system possibly know you’re going uphill anyway?).
It knows that after you’ve gone over the crest and the vehicle speed up without accelerator-going above your set cruise or above 60 kills your score-took me a while to figure it out, I thought it quite a poor method of measure.
