(16 Jul 2022, 11:00 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Hmmm yeah, it's a real puzzler with no possible solution isn't it.
Oh wait, someone from Management (let's call him Martijn from Bensham for now) could have had a bit of foresight what with "short notice cancellations" having been the norm for months now, and Percy Main rarely affected since the service cuts several months ago.  Perhaps they could have taken some initiative and at some point over the last several months route trained the drivers, or type trained on vehicles - though the suggestion that GNE would care less about having the "wrong" vehicle on a service is comical.  6175 seems to have been quite happy on the 21 today, along with 6178 for a while.  I suspect 99% of actual customers would rather an Omnidekka than no bus; though personally I would be deploying any 'spare' resource onto some of the other quoted examples of 4 hour gaps in provision ahead of beefing up the 21 allocation.  Anyone can peddle out excuses and reasons not to try; and of course it is easier not to - after all those customers with no option will continue to use the bus and anyone with the option and a brain cell willl already be in their cars.

As for poor Clive, it sounds to me like he shouldn't be behind the wheel of a bus in the first place if he's that clumsy.