(10 Oct 2015, 9:27 am)S813 FVK wrote Does it though? There are several cases at Go North East and Arriva where a branded vehicle is scheduled to go onto another service. Does that mak a mockery of those vinyls too?

I may have misunderstood your post but thats my take on it.

I think it should be avoided whenever possible, as it does to a degree make a mockery of route branding, but the systems in place will build running boards so that they are efficient as possible (meaning that there will always be instances of branded vehicles being scheduled to operate the wrong services).