CK’s school run moan!

CKhalvashi

I’m currently sat in a school car park having done the school run.

Time with engine on: 1h06
Average speed: 12mph
Average MPG: 17.4

This is in a diesel that will easily pull 50 on the motorway! (S-Max 2.2 TDCi Auto)

I know I’m only doing this once every 2 days (share with neighbour), but that’s bloomin’ ridiculous!

Anyone else have the same thing? :mad:

reeac

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I’m currently sat in a school car park having done the school run.

Time with engine on: 1h06
Average speed: 12mph
Average MPG: 17.4

This is in a diesel that will easily pull 50 on the motorway! (S-Max 2.2 TDCi Auto)

I know I’m only doing this once every 2 days (share with neighbour), but that’s bloomin’ ridiculous!

Anyone else have the same thing? :mad:

Too much traffic on the roads these days despite fuel prices - I blame the 4 car families.

CKhalvashi

reeac wrote: »

Too much traffic on the roads these days despite fuel prices - I blame the 4 car families.

We use no more than 2 of the cars at any one time. The ’11’ is essentially a company spare more than anything else; I think it’s done about 16000 miles (my S-Max has 37491 as I pull on the drive)

CK

CKhalvashi

TIME: 09.14
Time with engine on: 1h29
Average speed: 19mph
Average MPG: 29.8

That’s better, also!

epsilondraconis

Sell a couple of your cars and pay someone else to drive them to school.

CKhalvashi

epsilondraconis wrote: »

Sell a couple of your cars and pay someone else to drive them to school.

The black S-Max is a spare company car, and the SC is my bit of summer fun!

I see what you’re saying, but we have things as we like them here.

On the policy we have, it’s only around £200/year more expensive to insure the other 2 as well!

epsilondraconis

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I see what you’re saying, but we have things as we like them here.

Except for the school run...

As you say, at least it's only every other day.

jackyann

If this was on the "families" board we'd be wondering why you have to drive your kids so far?
Can't they go to their catchment school - if too far / unsafe to walk, transport provided?
If there are problems with school transport, are the local authority dealing with it?
Or is this the price you pay for choosing a school farther away and/or driving your kids yourself?

Incidentally, I heard that in Herts. morning traffic goes down by 33% in the holidays, so you are obviously not alone in making such choices in a populous county where most kids can easily get to school! Your county councillors should really be dealing with this - I know your problem is more short-term than that, but it is really ridiculous!

meer53

If you can afford to run and insure 4 cars, do you really have to worry about mpg ?

As for using no more than 2 cars at any one time, it would be pretty difficult to do anything else wouldn't it ?

mikey72

jackyann wrote: »

If this was on the "families" board we'd be wondering why you have to drive your kids so far?
Can't they go to their catchment school - if too far / unsafe to walk, transport provided?
If there are problems with school transport, are the local authority dealing with it?
Or is this the price you pay for choosing a school farther away and/or driving your kids yourself?

Incidentally, I heard that in Herts. morning traffic goes down by 33% in the holidays, so you are obviously not alone in making such choices in a populous county where most kids can easily get to school! Your county councillors should really be dealing with this - I know your problem is more short-term than that, but it is really ridiculous!

It certainly is.
Our local catchment school is 14 miles away, school transport stops at 16.
It costs us £400 a year for a bus pass to get ours in for sixth form.
(In the end, she drove her own car in when she passed her test, petrol worked out to be a similar cost, so she was one of the 33% as well)
If it took the op an hour to drive 12 miles, I don't think walking is going to be an option for them either.
Not everyone lives around the corner.

beetlebug1

i live in suffolk and the closest high school is 11 miles away