(14 Jan 2025, 10:56 am)Michael wrote Disruption to bus services


https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/disruption-bus-services


I honestly don't know what to do say............ is it just an excuse to cover up the mess within GNE itself??????

Problems with air systems in cold temperatures are often because the air dryers have not been maintained, system leaks, or in general lack of preventative maintenance.

Problems with batteries have been going on for as long as I can remember, I lost count of the amount of times a bus would get jump started in the morning to not start later in the day - what a surprise!

Problems with engines - stop buying the cheapest crap you can get which are not suitable for purpose, and then being surprised when they fail because:

You don’t do preventative maintenance other than on annual PSV, other than an oil and filter change if you can get it in the depot.

When you do maintenance it’s often a bodge to get it going because the bus cannot possibly be off the road.

When you replace something it’s often the cheapest possible option not taking into account the quality of the part.

None of this is particularly new, it’s just proving the point that you can only make do and mend as a short term solution and not as the core of your engineering service outside of annual PSV work.