(13 Jun 2015, 7:25 pm)Davie wrote Is it just me that thinks Arriva North East shouldn't be aloud branded vehicles due to their recent history of them constantly going off route? I don't know know Stockton depot is like for allocations, but from what I've been reading, Belmont seem to get their Max and Sapphire services mixed up, Ashington and Blyth aren't the best and I think we all know what Jesmond are like...
I think it would be a bit too far to say "no branded vehicles", the majority of those I see are on their correct routes, and when they go walkies it is normally for a valid reason.
I'd like to see how well GNE do actually, although I don't really pay attention, I gather some of their depots are/were notorious for allocating incorrectly.
As an example (of my first point), I think I may have seen one or two non-Sapphire E400's on the X21/22 this week, one was 7515 which carries "quick links into Newcastle" branding anyway, so this isn't much of a problem in my eyes.
If you mean paint them all in the same livery, but have different features on each one, that would be an absolute nightmare, and would constantly mislead customers in my opinion.