(25 Jan 2021, 10:44 pm)Storx wrote Definitely an interesting discussion mind, I know I regular mention them - probably too much, but one of the Solo's has obviously had a window put out quite recently and the new one looks like it's been fitted by a 10 year old with literal gaps where they've missed the sealing which is just a mess at best and isn't straight at all looks like a quick slap it down, if you pushed the window hard you could easily put it out as it's not fitted properly. Then to add a bonus the heating was blantently broken aswell which is pleasant this time of year. Believe it was 2812.
Aye I didn't put anything about them into my post as I remembered it had been discussed recently, but yeah it's really not ideal. The MPDs, Scanias and older E400s really need to be put to work on something else.
The cynic in me wonders if the seemingly patch and go approach is implemented by local management to an extent in order to force DBs hand to open the purse strings.
(26 Jan 2021, 12:02 am)Stuartphin1639 wrote I mean if you think that’s bad you should see other depots, I live in Darlington and friends with quite a few drivers so often am out and about with many of them, but 9 times out of 10 there’s a lot of vehicles off the road, the one that springs to mind is streetlite 1594 that’s been off the road since November
Pretty much any day that goes by in Darlington something else breaks down, I heard the other day that a driver was supposed to start at 7am and finally went on the road at 10:15 due to waiting for a bus because there was problems with quite a few of them
Eventually he had to swap over 2 buses for him to get a bus that was suitable for the route he was doing
I know Darlington even had/have a Redcar streetlite on loan because we are that short so it happens to all depots
Moral of the story is at least a bus turned up no matter what the state of it is, providing it will get you from A to B
Oh without a doubt there are issues elsewhere, but isn't it funny that two of the depots that seemingly have some of the worst reliability at the moment are ones that are relying on 05 plate Scanias and 2008/9 E400s to run demanding express work?
I only mention Ashington as I've never noticed it be quite as bad as the past few months have been. I think the same buses continually being problematic is indicative of poor maintenance routines, I get it happening once or twice but when you see the same stuff fail as often as some of them do, it's stands out. For as long as I've paid attention, Durham County have always looked to be worse than Northumbria in terms of general standards so I hold the latter to a higher standard, perhaps that's why this is standing out more.