(23 Mar 2016, 2:23 pm)scania driver wrote Here we go again with "issues" on the X93, and issues that all seem to eminate around Dormanstown / Redcar. The route, as I've said before, is a success story and Arriva management should be proud and recognise it as so. We got the BTL9's for the service that can just about cope with the none peak PVR but here we just a week into the 2016 'peak' and there are reports of 1102 (!) being used and Pulsar operation from the Redcar boards; vehicles that, incidentally, are not "Max" branded. The PVR for the route, as I understand is 8 vehicles and those 8 should be BTL9's, equivalant, or better; and approriately branded (and marketed). Ideally there should be spare capacity on the route to cover for breakdowns and other emergencies (road closures) but we know that isn't going to happen, don't we. 7485/6/7 will be cobbled together and plod (being the operative word) along and all the good work and reputation undone. It wouldn't happen on Yorkshire Coastliner would it?

(23 Mar 2016, 12:18 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Aye. The miserable git I'd complained about was on the 6 to bishop, supervising a younger driver, when I went with Big'un to check out the Castles Express in the market place. Clearly I've not destroyed his livelihood by trying to tell his employer that he was unprofessional and abusive.