Greater Manchester Tenders

[Mayneway]

RE: Greater Manchester Tenders
I don't see why age is such a factor anyway if the buses are low floor.
TFGM has an age limit in place for tenders so as long as the vehicles used are within the limit then it's not really an issue.
It's interesting that Liam mentions Bluebird and new vehicles. I can say that in the last few weeks Stagecoach have had no less than 3 breakdowns on evening 236's which are TFGM tenders and its taken them up to half an hour to send a replacement bus out and thier using practically new Enviro200's!

JPT seem to have the attitude to just drop a service if they suffer a breakdown.
I know when Stotts won the Glossop tenders there was a lot of critisum with people saying they wouldn't be able to recover a service if there was a breakdown but to be fair I've only ever seen this happen once and a replacement bus was up in Glossop within 15 minutes.
Stotts also have an alliance with Mistral and in the past have picked up emergency tenders with no more than a days notice and had vehicles available to run them so I don't think their small number of Solos putting them off going for tenders.