trentbarton land Reviews 

Worst experience I ever had.
Late for pick Up 30mim, late for drop of 1h. Driver did not know how to read a road , dumbest driver I ever drove with. If you can,swap him for someone with IQ and Bus dutys experience. Next bus x38 even chatch Us and drove pass... and still driver of our bus Not making any adjustments...
Registration number- MX09JHO

I have had enough!!! The bus never shows up on time!!!!!! When the bus is late it doesn’t tell you in advance so you end up being stranded for another half an hour until the other bus decides to show up another 10 minutes late!!!!! The MD Mr Morgan needs to up his game!!!!

In my experience, most Trent Barton drivers are thoroughly professional and helpful – including the guy on the Keyworth this morning who had to make another diversion following more roadworks in the village that he said they hadn’t been made aware of. Sure, it's never great when things go wrong. The test is how the company responds and I have always found the customer service staff helpful and willing to address problems. The buses are clean and most timetable issues appear to be down to issues such as congestion and a creaking roads system that the drivers can't control. It's a stressful job for them much of the time and I don't underestimate how difficult it is providing a public transport service in the Internet age. I don't criticise those who have legitimate complaints and it's right to expect those to be resolved. I also think it's important to recognise when things go right because people appear to go online rarely to say something positive.

Absolutely shocking service especially the comet bus.. always late or never turns up no information to say its cancelled.. to say this company been running for over 90 years and all the buses they have they still cant provide a reliable bus service....

World’s most unreliable bus company! If you’re lucky for them to turn up, which is rare. I’ve had 3 buses cancelled in a day, particularly on the sixes route. There’s no communication for the fact that they’ve been cancelled, just have to ring and find out. They’ll overcharge you a lot, often ill be charged on my mango and my card, I know someone who was sent into 20 pounds of overdraft when they wasn’t even in the country by this company! Disgusting, sort it out. Drivers don’t know what’s happening with the machines, they’ll say your cards declined and kick you off the bus, but you’ll be charged later on!

Cancelled buses on the 6’s route is the norm leading to over crowding amid rising prises. Nationalise without delay. The service is terrible.

TrentBarton is appalling. Very unreliable. Extremely disappointing service.

3 buses going in the opposite direction… none coming the way I was going!! Waiting for a bus from Nottingham to heanor is an absolute joke… never on time! Buses missing! Live times on the website might as well not exist as there never true to how long theses buses are going to be! I would not recommend this service to anyone!!

Yet again waiting for a late bus then wouldn't let me on because of your useless card swipe machine declined, even though I have plenty of money in. 3rd time stuck with other people with the same problem, he told me to nip to a bank and get money, then why have them, what is the point of these machines if people keep facing the same problem daily, just change them for ones with a key pad if you know it's a problem, or remove them simple, now we have to be late again because he has gone, it's just worked fine now I'm on a stagecoach.

Trentbartonland just isn't a reliable service for public transportation. I take the fact you get accidents on the road ,traffic ,road works but this isn't just a one off it'd all the time and always the same service and expected time. As a regular user I experience this alot

Even at 6am the bus is 5-10 minutes late . The Hugo app doesn't work so you resort to bustimes and find the bus you are waiting for is running 20 minutes late with the next one now just a couple of minutes behind. Many times 2 or 3 buses were run together there is no contingency plan

Some of the drivers aren't friendly and can be quite rude

right, whoever that was driving my last bus needs to sort himself out, the bus was so full to the point i was sat on the luggage area, people were getting smacked with the doors and people could barely even pay for their ticket NOT TO MENTION SOMEONE WAS SICK IN THE BACK OF THE BUS i dont blame her bc of how full it was and how hot it was, but fk me, im still 20 mins away from home and i just got off bc hes pissed me right off and its hot and it smells like shi, FIRE THAT BASTARD

Two buses showed up at the same time. One was early and one was late. They are the most unreliable bus company ever!!

Very rude driver on the 1600 6s to Matlock

10 30am,The flyer,near the general Havelock. My husband and myself were about 10ft from the bus stop (running as fast as we could ,being pensioners and my husband with a walking stick) I put my hand out to stop the bus, the bus stops, then she looked at me ,indicates and drives off. We were on our way to the Royal Derby hospital to visit our son, who is incidentally a driver with Trent Barton. I personally don't know how this blonde haired woman sleeps at night. I could have understood it if she was running late, but she actually drove off 1 minute early.

Please do not use Skylink for a commute Derby - East Midlands Gateway. The bus that is scheduled to arrive at 4.18 at EMG is there maybe one a week if lucky which leaves people waiting for a bus for over 40 minutes every day! The morning service is usually couple of minutes late which makes me late to work every day. Nightmare!

It absolutely criminal that this company advertise themselves with the ‘really good bus company’ they are literally the polar opposite!

I am convinced their timetables are just for show and you just have to turn up at a bus stop and hope for the best and attempt to use their awful tracking app.

It doesn’t help they run services that serve several towns and villages which some routes take 1+ hours which are all served by single decks!!!

Keep seeing advertisements saying they have the best drivers in the land - I think 1 or 2 deserve this praise but the other 90% are just so rude!

The buses they keep ordering are just awful - very loud and whiny, lots of rattles and someone clever decided to put 3 skylights in which turns the bus into a greenhouse during the summer - talking of heat -also this company has a high record of bus fires so I don’t feel safe sat at the back of the bus - although to be honest I don’t get that far as never have a seat !

Their lack of communication is absolutely dreadful when it comes to roadworks or breakdowns or missing buses.
You literally have to hope for the best - other bus operators seem to know well in advance and provide diversion maps.
Trentbarton on a good day will post on Facebook that a service is diverting - no indication of where and what stops are missed ! Pot luck.

Unfortunately they have a monopoly of the areas they cover and people are forced to pay their £8+ a day tickets, about 10 years ago they had competition but Trentbarton ran them aground by lowering prices and launching a new bus service in a sisters company name (bargain bus) and offering £1 a journey.
Once the competition disappeared the low fares and extra buses also disappeared!

Customer service is none existent, they just seem to blame the depot for not telling them- so no communication or integration exists in the company.

The Rainbow One bus service is terrible. There is only 1 bus an hour where I am and it’s always late, yesterday it was 30 mins late. You absolutely cannot rely on them.

Worst company ever ! Always late and many times not even showing up. Yesterday after waiting for 20 minutes when finally the bus show off the driver was driving so fast that he didn't bother to stop , even though I showed that I was asking for stop with plenty of time , he passed through the bus stop without excitation. Today once again after waiting for the bus , it did not come. I really need to find a way to get to work with another company.

We are selling the flat to move onto a Nottingham City transport route Indigo bus's 05:48 veery unreliable I called customer services for the fourth time regarding this service. All you get in response is it was taken out of service for a safety issue I asked what the safety issue was they replied its just a safety issue. So I believe the driver never turned up for their duty or they failed the breatherlizer. When Premier buses where in service every Trent barton ran. They seriously need compatisoin this company has lost all what they used to stand for now days the drivers are also unwelcomeing and can be rude not how it use to be. Congratulations yet again to this awful company on not winning bus operator of the year.

get a car, this company is insane and the timings are completely unprofessional and crazy!!!