PCL Travel
PCL Travel
(17 Aug 2018, 7:06 pm)James101 So say they receive £170 per day. If they used a small conventional bus and 15MPG from it, that would be around £50 in fuel alone. Plus say £90 on 10 hours labour for the driver? £30 to cover overheads of running a bus, I doubt that would even come close to covering a lease on something like the E200 Spirit were using. Is it any wonder the service is in the state it's in?They were supposedly on a subsidy of £75 a day for service 808 which consisted of one journey a day in each direction from Otterburn to Newcastle typically using a van interworking with some of their other supported runs on some days such as the 882 between Colwell and Hexham on Saturdays, this seemingly wasn't enough for them to continue operating the service, so they dropped the contract and it got put out for tender again with Phoenix now running it. If they are on about £170 a day for the 15/16, I fear there is little in the way of profit being made on the service.
(17 Aug 2018, 7:06 pm)James101 So say they receive £170 per day. If they used a small conventional bus and 15MPG from it, that would be around £50 in fuel alone. Plus say £90 on 10 hours labour for the driver? £30 to cover overheads of running a bus, I doubt that would even come close to covering a lease on something like the E200 Spirit were using. Is it any wonder the service is in the state it's in?They were supposedly on a subsidy of £75 a day for service 808 which consisted of one journey a day in each direction from Otterburn to Newcastle typically using a van interworking with some of their other supported runs on some days such as the 882 between Colwell and Hexham on Saturdays, this seemingly wasn't enough for them to continue operating the service, so they dropped the contract and it got put out for tender again with Phoenix now running it. If they are on about £170 a day for the 15/16, I fear there is little in the way of profit being made on the service.