Stagecoach North East

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East

(15/08/2013 19:11)riverside motors Wrote:  

(15/08/2013 18:33)kuyoyo Wrote:  

(14/08/2013 23:36)mbonwick Wrote:  10 covering a PVR 8 is 25% spare, which is higher than SC generally operate to. Partly this is because there aren't quite enough spare singles, but with new ones on order that is no longer a problem.

9 replacing 10, reducing spares to 12.5% is perfectly doable.

So, we're replacing 10 highly reliably Volvo Olympians with just 9 Dennis Tridents of which we've already experienced their poor reliability? It's not less spares we'll need, it's more. Won't exactly be good for retaining the contracts in the future if we have days where Enviro300s are being pulled in off the 36 to go cover school runs.

Anyway, Olympian 16831 was on the 52 today, 16833 was on the 35 and 16835 started the day on the 58 before being replaced by 17032 while 16835 had the seal for the front nearside upper deck window repaired after which 16835 went onto the 13.

but its only a difference of one double decker, and it will only be for a few months, if Teesside get the same treatment as Sunderland have received next year, or even half their will be plenty of single spares which they can use before the usage of the ALX400's. I can't see stagecoach running any scholars after 2016 anyway.

The Macmillans are contracted until 2019 (contracted was renewed in 2009 for I believe 10 years) and likely beyond that unless another local operator can undercut a bid. The contracts at Macmillans are for a large capacity vehicle - hence the mention of Enviro300s as back up on the schools.