(26 Dec 2015, 9:21 pm)R852 PRG wrote From what I understand; Excels are horrific mechanically and awful to drive. A friend of mine who is an engineer at Chester-le-Street has said on more than one occasion that they are the worst buses he has ever worked on. Can't imagine it would be nice to train in one.
Excels are only basically Darts with a different body on.
Although I've been told by a friend who used to drive them that the driving position is different to most full size single decks so maybe they wouldn't make a good training bus after all. Blackpool have form in using awful buses as trainers though, what with the ELC Myllennium DAF they bought from Stagecoach Yorkshire