Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot
It’s interesting that the contract is requiring a MINIMUM capacity of 70 on a single decker vehicle that’s less than 15 years of age and atleast euro 5.

This will limit most of the remaining local independents such as Ashcrofts.
If I’m not mistaken MP Travel have 4x single deckers that meet those requirements? (The 2x Eclipse, Eclipse Commuter and Evora) but don’t presently own a ‘spare’ that would also meet this requirements in the event of a breakdown? The MCV’s fall foul of capacity requirements.

Other potential operators could include Arriva, Warrington and Stagecoach who additionally all own large quantities of high capacity single deckers?