(28 Aug 2018, 7:58 am)RBZ 5459 wrote It's to basically spread the 39***s out more evenly. Reliability yes, but depot costs being the big one.

Seems a bit of a bizarre way of working?

Most operators seem to standardise the fleets at different depots whenever possible - it allows the engineering teams to be more familiar with that vehicle type and store more of the components they require the most of (rather than stocking an abundance of different parts for different vehicles), in order to get vehicles unfit for service back on the road sooner.

It seems odd to spread out an issue rather than have all of them based centrally at one location with a budget to reflect their lesser reliability and higher maintenance costs.

Hartlepool may be over-budget now, but I'd have hoped their budget would be revised in the following financial year to reflect the higher spend.