(15 Aug 2022, 5:26 pm)morritt89 wrote I think it's wrong that passengers have to suffer because of a lack of drivers. I am also aware that apart from sub contracting out routes and scaling back timetables to a skeleton or Sunday service that nothing can be done. Surely (you would hope) that there are alarm bells ringing in GNE towers on how to retain current drivers rather than constantly focus on recruitment.Yes - Dan said the company would be "overstaffed" and that drivers could be moved between depots to fill in gaps - then the line changed to drivers not volunteering to transfer depot.
The changes that are being made now, could have (and should have?) been made sooner to help stem the flow of cancelled journeys. Wasn't there a post somewhere on here that said cancellations would be very minimal once the last lot of changes went ahead? I remain skeptical as to whether the situation will improve when the new contracts start.
And they're still losing drivers, seemingly faster than they can train them.