22 Aug 2014, 9:44 pm
#124
(22 Aug 2014, 9:40 pm)Tom Yesterday was a mess then?
Three boards on the X70/X71 were allocated Volvo B10BLE's.
One board on the X30/X31 was allocated a B7TL, another a Olympian.
One board on the Diamond was allocated a Dennis Trident, two others B10BLE's.
One board on the Red Kite was allocated a Red Omnicity.
Welcome to the world of Stanley allocations.
They might not put branded vehicles out on the wrong services too frequently, but their corporate liveried vehicle allocations are just dreadful.
Stanley are like Percy Main. They like to put red OmniCitys out to cover for branded vehicles to maintain the level of service, but this comes at the detriment of services X70/X71 and 9 respectively - and then the allocations for every other service are affected as a result. These depots treat corporate liveried vehicles as red spares, and they shouldn't because management has decided that they want those red buses to be allocated to a specfic service and not to act as a spare for every service at that depot.
