(09 Aug 2015, 4:25 pm)Dan wrote The vehicle is fitted with a tachograph, so makes sense to trial it on one of the most demanding routes the company operates..!
You don't know how suitable the vehicle is going to be until you trial it.
I'd imagine the X9/X10 may receive investment within the next two years as I don't think they'd want a repeat of the last days and months of the B7s suffering breakdowns somewhere along the route so I imagine trialing the StreetDeck will give them a chance to see how it copes for if they do decide to invest in new stock for this service in future.
My theory of the TTX receiving investment is down to the fact that GNE normally like to fully repaint their buses around every 5 years and how long the B7s were on the X10 then later the X9.
I am not going to give much of the way of an opinion on how I think it will perform on the TTX until I can sample it on the service and see how it actually performs rather than just sit on here and say it's going to be crap on the X9/X10, I'll give an opinion after riding it on the X9/X10 (providing they actually trial it on TTX).