(01 Jun 2019, 11:22 am)Rob44 wrote inspector on arriva but to Newcastle this morning checking tickets - not seen one on the bus for years.

I can only recall ever seeing an inspector once in my whole life, and that was on The Angel probably about 5 years ago.
That's unless you count the one on the bus during the strikes that got attacked on the X46. I think he was the Northumbria one as neither he or the driver (from Yorkshire) knew the route of the 6 and had to ask passengers the way through Spennymoor and still went the wrong way!