(12 Mar 2020, 7:12 pm)scanialover wrote Further to my last you've gotta question the sanity of operating double deck vehicles on routes like the X9/10 in conditions as we experienced this afternoon. I just had to speak with the driver concerned as I alighted from the bus in Middlesbrough as, a) he did a quality job keeping his vehicle on the road and b) knowing full well that he wouldn't get any praise or understanding from his company. OK it's difficult given modern day operating practices pretty much impossible to substitute vehicles in conditions like this but then what happens if, as the man said, he'd lost it? His parting comment, "just like driving a kite", summed things up!

The X21 I was on, yesterday, was getting pulled around enough on the A1(M) with winds nowhere near as bad as today. 

It used to be that single deckers would be put on the X9/X10 in high winds.