(24 Jan 2022, 8:32 am)Storx wrote Oh of course not, I'm totally aware of Darlington's problems. Durham hasn't been too bad in recent weeks I don't believe but it's still not great either. Let's be honest though neither were exactly a shining example of hour to run a bus company for years. The fleet standard at both of them is shocking. 

Don't believe there's many issues at Stockton or Redcar though?

Stagecoach Stockton (admit I don't follow it at all) seems to have big problems aswell tbf another depot on strike and I'm sure replacing new 69 plates with 55 plate MAN's is just the best way to boost driver moral when it's blatently rock bottom as it is. 

GCT well they deserve critisism.

I believe Redcar are still having staffing issues - like Go North East, a lot of what is dropped is during the day, with a priority made to cover early mornings and evenings/nights. Sadly that can't always be achieved and they have dropped a little bit of night time work recently.

The point being made is that each of the big three have their own staffing issues - which are worse at some locations than others - it is definitely not one single operator in the region having issues as was previously suggested. The perception is that Go North East are struggling the most, but this is only because they are being the most transparent about the issues. As Adrian mentioned elsewhere recently, even this isn't 100% and there's more that could be done, with Arriva seemingly doing better on their app to inform customers of cancellations (despite this being somewhat clunky in itself).