Maghull Coaches

[Quackdave]

RE: Maghull Coaches

(08/04/2015 20:30)Quackdave Wrote:  In which case, you'd have thought that a Monday-Friday, peak-hours only service would be the last thing they'd want to add to their portfolio.

(08/04/2015 21:41)YJ59 AZA Wrote:  I'd think that it'd be the other way around? They mainly do Monday to Friday peak-time work (schools and other education transport like college buses) and the 103 runs on Mondays to Fridays during peak-time only. Plus, the service is practically on their doorstep. With it not being a full-time service, just like the other work that they do, I'd say that it looks the most suitable out of the selection of services (apart from the 8-- services and schools).

My point was meant to be that if they take on additional work at the same times as their existing work, then they'd likely need to increase their fleet of buses (as well as the number of O-licence discs) to be able to operate it; whereas if they took on (say for example) evening or weekend work, then they could potentially use some of the same buses and licences that they already have, which would otherwise be sitting idle, thereby creating efficiencies.

Obviously, that partly depends on the suitability of the same type of bus for both sets of work; but I would have thought there would be suitable work for low-floor Tridents and Spectras outside of schoolday daytimes.