(30 Oct 2022, 8:58 pm)toward6931 wrote looking at the north east in particular i do think that it wouldn't be particularly wise to hasten the demise of the Darts and ALX 300s while they have issues with other vehicles,
stuff like the 2005 E300s, 2008 E300s and some of the 2009 E300s are already showing their age and i think some of the ALX300s as long as they have sufficient spare parts will outlast some of mentioned vehicles. some of the E400s are also the same. i think especially here it needs to be a balance of getting rid knackered vehicles and getting of old vehicles that may still have some life left
Aye to be fair the North East fleet isn't too bad really though. Ideally though what they need to do is invest in some fleet somewhere and just displace everything out of it whether that's the North East or Lancashire or wherever and get arid of the elderly buses across the board.
Similar with Decker's really they badly need to just make a massive order for somewhere like Manchester or Newcastle and just displace 100's of buses to get arid of the elderly buses across the fleet.
There doesn't seem to be any investment at all though bar partially funded buses though SCOTZEB or ZEBRA though and being bought by an investment firm probably isn't going to help matters either.