25 Jul 2018, 7:04 pm
#231
(25 Jul 2018, 6:56 pm)Michael Like the deckers from East Yorkshire, are the presidents only temporary, are they down for replacement already?
No plans to replace the '54' plate ex-London B7s as of yet - but as these contracts are only for one year, it doesn't make a lot of sense to go to a lot of cost to repaint all 34 of the ex-London B7s, and from a time perspective, there's only a 6-week gap to get these buses up to specification which isn't really a lot of time to begin with.
Should Go North East be as successful in winning all of these contracts again next year, I'd say it's likely that the '54' plate ones will be repainted then. Until that time comes, the bodywork condition of the '06' plate ones is much worse so really they needed a repaint.
If Go North East aren't as successful in winning these contracts in 12 months time, then it's quite likely that the '06' plate ones would be retained in the fleet anyway (there's V-reg, 02-reg and 54-reg to withdraw before any 06-reg!)
