(07 Mar 2020, 7:33 pm)scanialover wrote What I'd really like to see, in order to keep our serviceable vehicles - and yes there are plenty of them - is the various depots being given budgets, resources and the luxury of time, to keep them so and try and minimise the issues we read about on here. Yes it's difficult in this day and age but surely doesn't what I say make sense?

Looking at bustimes, these are the vehicles currently 'long term' VOR throughout the Durham County operation. For the sake of this I've classed long term as 5+ days, though there may be non-mechanical reasons for spells off the road for that period of time. 

1416
1447
1463
1560
1563
1571
1592
1607
1612
2823
2830
2862
4650
4705
7421
7423
7425
7426
7456

19 buses out of a fleet of nearly 300 vehicles. That's 6% of vehicles - from memory I believe companies generally have a spare percentage of around 10%. 

Of note is that, out of those VOR, you have 6 Streetlites and only 1 Scania. 

Aware that this is a fairly crude and simplistic way of looking at it, but on the face of it there doesn't seem to be a problem with vehicle availability.