Rotala - Prestonbus

[gilesbus1]

RE: Rotala - Prestonbus

(11/07/2019 23:44)Winston Wrote:  Your wasting your time asking the original poster, they're just copying what's been posted/discussed under the Flickr image (some of it by me).

Rotala HQ decide what goes where, not Preston.

The Scania's were only ever on the 'potential cascade' list along with the B7RLE's that are transferring in to DBNW. It make sense to transfer the Scania's to Preston, as they already operate a number of single & double decker's. The majority of the buses being sourced by Rotala over & above those leased from First will be Euro 6 complaint, hence why the Streetlites are heading there, this isn't currently an issue in Preston.

How many additional vehicles then are being sourced as the figure we were given on take-over was 160 were required and a 125 being leased, but is that 160 including most of Atherton's existing fleet or is that additional in order to keep the figure at Bolton at about 200?

So far there only appears evidence of about 12 additional vehicles having been sourced all from within Rotala so a lot of work to do me thinks over the next few weeks if the figure is an allocation of circa 200 vehicles!

As for follow on new vehicles that's another story that won't see much action I suspect till around Christmas. Ex Lease Stock might provide some leeway, I guess e.g. all the Streetlite's sent back of lease could be leased again or bought back!

If I was Rotala though Ii wouldn't use it as an opportunity to neglect Preston, that needs vehicles as well to come in, as the age profile there is already bad whether it requires new buses or not through legislation or local policy?