23 Aug 2014, 5:53 am
#128
(22 Aug 2014, 10:01 pm)Robert So, how come the 08:17 X30 departure from Stanley was ALWAYS operated by an omnicity (and could still be, havent seen that working lately for obvious reasons)? Seems a bit too coincidental that the same board gets the 'spare' for weeks on end. (And that bus stays on aswell).
Also forgot to add that before the Schools broke up 1 President (Trident, not a B7) used to do scholars then head back up to Consett, presumably to operate services X70/X71.
Things may be different now its School Holidays but on School Days that is what occurred.
I don't know why it happened, but all I can tell you is that it shouldn't have happened (and you'll just have to take my word on that one as I can't prove this to you). I'm not sure what systems are in place to monitor odd workings (especially corporate liveried vehicles at that), but as soon as management are made aware that Stanley are doing what they like instead of going by the allocations management has set, they will have words.
Aureolin has said this before: who is in charge of the company? Not those on depot level...
The scholar services, so far as I can remember, do not interwork with services X70/X71. Buses are scheduled to head to Consett to act as spare buses, and I'm inclined to suggest this has happened here too - but again, this should have been a Volvo Olympian (won't be in a week's time) and this is showing Stanley's poor allocations.
Percy Main should not have been allocating the Centurion Volvo B10BLEs to service 9, but they did... So much so, enthusiasts deemed it a normal working and customerd ended up referring to the 9's allocation on GNE's Social Media pages as the 'yellow buses'. Management had to go to the cost of repainting these buses as a result, after more than a few complaints...
