(25 Jan 2025, 2:40 pm)Adrian wrote It's an insane way to run a business. Clearly someone who is only interested in the very short term, but never looking at the bigger picture. If only you allowed a bit of time to be invested in fault finding and repair on the bus, rather than insisting it's straight back out on the road, you may have fixed it first time; not the 5th or 6th time it's off the road. For a management with a productivity fetish, it doesn't sound like very productive leadership, does it?
You're right though, this stinks of Arriva Durham when I used to live through that way. Buses in a mess, breakdowns without replacements or communication, and newer buses being pushed out, only to be replaced by utter heaps. The 09 plate E200 rattleboxes and the ill-fated Tempos spring to mind.
I noticed this comment in the BBC article as well, about newer GNE vehicles being sent to GNW - all of note that I can recall permanently heading West were the Citaros ages ago, which were hardly new even then though?