23 Aug 2014, 9:33 am
#131
(23 Aug 2014, 5:53 am)Dan 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...
Service 822 was always a President and headed up to Consett. Wasnt always but it was very rare that it was an Olympian. Again, i just cant find that putting the same sort of bus on the same route for weeks on end, just like the omnicity. Doubt Percy Main (or any other depot) could do it so why can Stanley? Sorry for all this but as im saying in these posts, its very coincidental that the same thing keeps happening over and over again which could (and does (to me)) suggest that its a normal working and does run onto services X70/X71. Same with the Omnicity, the amount of consecutive weeks one has appeared on the same board it may aswell be classed as a normal working.
