(15 Nov 2016, 5:12 pm)Michael wrote Like most things on here, stuff is put on here, months, even weeks before its released to the public, sites such as VOSA do that, no doubt every company use that feature, (well until now because they've wreaked it) to look for upcoming changes. Stagecoach revealed their orders in their handbook, so really its their own fault if competitors decide to buy new buses.


Oh right, the way he post on here, it sounded like he worked for them.

But sites like VOSA don't indicate there are new vehicles or new branding nor the specific routes. Just look at the X5, X6, X7 conversations throughout the GNE section to see the debates about possible allocations, routes and brand names.
ANE will have known something was coming, but until they got official information or someone leaked it, their hands were tied.
Now timetables are out and routes have been confirmed, they can act and possibly counter the competition.

Ditto with SNE and the X24.

Totally agree that the information regarding vehicle orders is in the public domain, but who knows where those vehicles are being used? 

I think every member of the forum has shared information they have heard from friends, family members, drivers or directly from the horses mouth so to speak. Some of it will be true and some of it not. Sometimes the plans change and what we thought was going to happen, didn't.


The point I think MurdnunoC was making was specific to Dicky Peppermint or whatever his name is these days. He has blathered his gums about confidentiality in that post and in the past, yet at the same time shared snippets of information whilst having a dig at someone who he has decided isn't a 'proper enthusiast'. Where is the the confidentiality there?
People often think knowledge is power...