(18 Aug 2023, 5:03 pm)Chris 1 wrote Would they not cost in terms of repaint, re-trim and whatever else they have done? Also, would there not be a cost associated with having 6 (?) vehicles sat around with no real role? I'd have thought it would be best practice to secure the work and then get the vehicles, rather than the other way round?
Nothing has been done to them yet by the look of the photos, so no cost incurred!
There isn't an unlimited supply of buses from Go Ahead London, it depends on contract renewals - perhaps GNE were advised that if they needed buses in the next few months, they needed to take these now.
There are still a lot of Scania Omnidekka in the fleet approaching 20 years old.
(18 Aug 2023, 6:44 pm)Storx wrote Not sure about that mind, those buses have a value and I can't see GoAhead London just giving them away. They might not have a value on the accounts but that doesn't mean that some budgets haven't been passed around to fund the replacements in London, from GoNorthEast's budget, since they're gaining something.
Something with no value sold for £2k is £2k profit for GoAhead London which balances out the new bus depreciation partially.
I read on here a few months back that Go Ahead now deal with surplus vehicles centrally.
So I assume that they are offered to other Group companies such as GNE first, before they are offered for sale outside the group.
Internal transfers would surely be at book value, otherwise there is a lot of unnecessary time going to be spent by accountants moving money around for little gain.