(02 Oct 2022, 2:57 pm)MurdnunoC wrote GCT have the youngest fleet in the North East and you don't see their drivers out on strike.Pretty sure GCT were offering £16 an hour or something ridiculous like that for a job.
Perhaps there's sone correlation between the state/age of the fleet and the happiness of the drivers.....LOL.
Also younger fleet tend not to break down as much, and if you've got a older fleet or buses which don't seem to suit a route e.g OmniDekkas on X10 there will tend to be more breakdowns due to their lack of reliability. It was the same with the 65 when they got the old X66 buses, there was 1-2 breakdowns every couple of days for a few weeks/months. Even recently we've seen both of them break down at the same times.