(14 Feb 2020, 7:10 am)scanialover wrote The inevitability of bus travel these days and despite my grumble about service 63 being from the area I know just how difficult it is to maintain time. I'd thought of things like turning late running services short and some sort of radio control management but this is Middlesbrough not London and it's just best, a fact, we stick with what we've got.
Radios would help, but years ago they did things like you suggest,
curtailing services, running empty to catch uptime and such like just by communication with other drivers and local inspectors.
The trouble these days is less inspectors to manage these things, and less frequent services - meaning they can’t cut out parts of the route because in many cases it would mean too long for those areas to get another bus.