(27 Oct 2020, 8:13 pm)mb134 wrote Good to hear 7553 has improved, was glacial along the A1 both times I had it in the summer. 7554/6 have been brilliant each time I've had them, though again recently I'm led to believe they've both had issues. 

Really the X15/8 need new MMCs. The 09 plates are shot, particularly 7514/5, and the 57 plates are virtually end of life at this point and just need to be put onto the 35 for the next few years until they die. The 64 plates don't seem too bad, but again they've pretty much all been used flat out for the best part of 6 years on the X18 and probably could do with being pushed over to the X20 or something even less demanding like you say. Then the less said about the Scanias the better, the X14 would benefit with literally anything else on there.

and the deckers aren't even the worst things for reliability at Ashington that has to go to the 3 Solos and the 2 darts. Seen 1801 has been off the road for awhile (again) and that 7510 has been on the 57/57A as usual.

The darts have to be top priority over anything with Arriva especially 1759 which keeps clinging on for life which must be one of the last Transbus darts on the road surely, they were rare enough as it was.

Also speaking of minibuses what's up with 2827 it hasn't been in service since April guessing there's something very wrong with it.