(17 Aug 2018, 7:06 pm)James101 wrote So say they receive £170 per day. If they used a small conventional bus and 15MPG from it, that would be around £50 in fuel alone. Plus say £90 on 10 hours labour for the driver? £30 to cover overheads of running a bus, I doubt that would even come close to covering a lease on something like the E200 Spirit were using. Is it any wonder the service is in the state it's in?
£50 in fuel? Maybe if you're using a minibus on it but that MPD they've got on it now will be using more in the region of £80-90 a day. Added to the wages of say £90 a day that eats up all of your subsidy and that's before adding other costs on top. It needs a lot of revenue to make it worthwhile and I dare say in the winter season it's a complete waste of time.