(30 Apr 2023, 4:33 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Wondering if it is down to reliability having had their fingers burnt multiple times now with cascaded crap from Scotland, even though newer than the exiting vehicles many have been much less reliable. Similar to what happened with replacing the elderly Darts and now scrabbling around to find remaining examples to replace the worse but newer alternatives. Of course the answer is investment in the fleet rather than finding the least bad life expired stock to chuck at the network outside of Newcastle.I've said this for a while, it happened with the 08 E300s, and the kinetics where they got rid of 03 plate ALX300s for newer stock which turned out to be abit crap, i think the Scottish E300s after a lot of work turned out ok.
there needs to be a half decent settling down period where the drivers and engineers get used to "newer" vehicles ironing out any kinks and keep ahold of the displaced vehicles for a time incase of any issues. for example the old rule of 3s in the military where 1 vehicles is active, the next one is having routine maintenance and upkeep, maybe repainting etc and the other is in deep maintenance or VOR etc