(30 Aug 2022, 9:43 pm)Unber43 wrote X10 needs a dedicated spare, seems every day there is a replacement bus. Really they should've have one from Day one, as the 04:55 service also runs the last X10 20:20 from Newcastle.
A dedicated spare on a route with a PVR of 4? 25% spare capacity for one route...
(31 Aug 2022, 9:31 am)Andreos1 wrote Looking at the time it happened and the time I passed it, it had been there a while.
Comes back to the cost/benefit I queried yesterday in another thread.
A driver and vehicle down. Presumably until an fitter managed to get down with a spare.
Said fitter would then attempt to fix it and get it back to the depot.
If it isn't fixable/driveable, then they wait for Alpha.
So Riverside are a fitter down for hours on end.
You'd have the same problem if a bus broke down 5 minutes from a depot though? Someone is going to have to wait with the bus on most occasions, until it's either a) driveable back to the depot, b) Alpha can come and recover it.
It should only take 50 minutes or so for a fitter to get to Middlesbrough in a van. I'd imagine they'd just take the driver back North, as there's little point running the trip, by the time you get down there with a replacement bus. I doubt the fitter will be down hours on end either, as most should be able to give an initial assessment on whether or not whether it needs a tow... pointless spending hours trying to fix something roadside, when you can tow it back and fix at your leisure.