(04 Jan 2024, 6:00 pm)toward6931 wrote i really do think that since when i worked at SNE and there was a plan in place where the big money making divisions were getting batches of new vehicles bi annually with a set fleet management plan, it does not feel like that is the case any more.
for example torquay and northampton getting brand new MMCs to try and bring up the standard of tourist and student services whilst dare i say it (again) a year round money making operation like the north east which traditionally has a higher percentage of people using public transport is slowly getting older and older buses or as i focused attention on recently busier and busier services which arent getting remedied
It was the same with South when I was there we had huge influxes of new vehicles and although there were some old ones most were brand new. You’d expect Newcastle to have a brand new fleet given its return to Group the older vehicles then cascaded to Sunderland Middlesbrough etc… I’m sure if it hadn’t of been for CAZ we’d still have had ALX300s in Newcastle.