(04 Jul 2014, 9:40 am)aureolin wrote Taxi Buses don't need to be registered on VOSA afaik. Also had a quick look under their operator licence on VOSA, and can't see them registered. It still means that they have a total PVR of 14, yet the depot is only licensed for 14 vehicles, with a further 6 at Felling?
Compass are also doing at least one board on services 37/73, aren't they? So that's a total PVR of 13 opposed to 14.
I've only seen the 939 once and it was operated by a taxi. Assuming that this was a non-compliant working (which I'd assume it was, given that GNE used to operate it with an MPD), you can add 1 to the PVR for that - making it 14 again.
The 592 and 593 in Sunderland, as far as I know, are completely standalone. That makes the PVR 16.
I'd assume that the 90 and 941 will run onto or off something, so the PVR will remain unchanged for those.
They had a fleet of nine active Bluebirds with one also withdrawn prior to gaining new vehicles. I'm not sure whether the withdrawn Bluebird would still count as a vehicle on their license? Assuming it does, they have ten vehicles PLUS at least six 16-seater vans which are mainly used on taxi work but do crop up on service work every now and again. They've got three new Bluebirds so far. That's at least 19/20 vehicles on their operators license for both depots.
The Bluebirds won't be fully compliant for some of the services they've won (indeed GNE's 635/636 are a seat short for the new contract spec for services 37/73, hence why their non-conforming bid was not selected as GCT allegedly had fully conforming bids), so we can still expect more new arrivals... Realistically need to look at having 16 compliant vehicles plus 2 spare... However you look at the situation, they need to find a bigger depot - having 18 compliant vehicles plus at least 6 vans means they've got 24/20 vehicles. There could be more than 6 vans at the moment too...