Go North West

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RE: Go North West - FLEETNEWS ONLY - NO STRIKE TALK!

(15/03/2021 20:12)Mrboo Wrote:  Route Branding works and you can keep the right buses on the right route but you have to stop staff breaking the golden rules. just like when people took wrong buses for routes like 415 you should not need to put a warning sticker in the cab.

Each route with Branding has to be parked up in right order at end of service. And each Branded route has togo out on right duty. and if a bus interworks it has to have a non branded bus or a bus that has hybrd branding. and a branded bus is never used as a spare no matter how temping it but really that bus should be out in service anyway. you should never have more then needed anyway so they should be out in service anyway so you should swap it with a non branded doing that route anyway. Buses on Tenders for TFGM should be in a pool and should be TFGM branded or owned by them. and the unbranded route free city buses should be used more.

Yet more nonsense.
TFGM started supplying their own buses on tendered routes but didn’t want to pay for maintenance so they ended up being virtually unusable, hence the large number of TFGM owned buses sat rotting in Stockport until recently rusting away.

As for the 415. It’s strictly an Enviro200 route, problem is not all the Enviro200’s will fit under the bridge on Grimshaw lane because they have pods on the roof so while all drivers know to only use an Enviro200, most wouldn’t know which have pods and which don’t ......hence the stickers.