(07 Apr 2021, 8:48 pm)mb134 wrote That shouldn't be the case though. At the last service reduction, Ashington's PVR dropped by 5 iirc. Essentially the Volvo B7s and one Scania should have been reserve vehicles. They lost no vehicles. 

Now, their PVR is increasing by 1 (still 4 lower than what it was in January), yet are still struggling with vehicles? Something isn't right, clearly.

Possibly stuck in a bit of rut in a sense certain vehicles are just outright useless (7510 / 7445 / 7446 / 7484 / 7486) and aren't fit for purpose on any route at Ashington or are constantly broken / been off the road for months (2809 / 4653 / 4659 / 4664 / 7530 / 7556)

It's no wonder they're not maintaining things to be fair when you've got so much junk to deal with. Now I'm by no means an expert at buses but 7510, 7445, 7446, 4563, 4569 and 4664 should be no-where near a depot that only has routes which are fast express work or travel >40 mile away from the depot. 7445/7446 were absolutely dogs on the 306 nevermind Ashington's routes. I know it's dumping the crap on Jesmond but surely having 7522, 7558, 7559, 7561, 7563 up at Ashington would be better than the first 5, 7510 might actually be useful on the 43/44/45 especially now Ashington has lost their old dumping ground of the 35 where the likes of 7510/7445/7446 were actually useful on.