The Ashington "engineering" team seem to have reverted to their old tricks. Constantly sending out vehicles which have failed the previous day(s), only for them to almost immediately need replacing again. 

1574 came back into service today, again failing to make start of service. In the past 2 weeks, it failed on Monday 21st after just a few hours. It was sent back out on the 22nd and failed to complete the day on the 57. It was sent back out on the 23rd and didn't even make it to the first stop after Ashington Bus Station. Didn't get used on the 24th, appeared in the afternoon of the 25th where it ran NIS to Whitley Bay, then lost 30 minutes on the return journey to Ashington. Saturday 26th it managed just over 2 hours before failing on an X21. Monday 28th, it completed its first full day for over a week, before failing on the first trip on the 1 on Tuesday 29th. 

1391 was the same at the start of this month. After a fortnight off, from the middle of June, it was sent out on the 1st July for 2 trips on the 777. Two more days off, where they decided to send it on an X20 and in a shock move it didn't make it to Alnwick on its first trip. It did a couple of trips on the 1 the next day before again being pulled off, another 2 days off and then after a failed round trip on the X22 it was once again pulled off service for another 3 weeks where they seem to have actually fixed it.

7564, 7548, and 3051 are further examples. 

It seems to be a pattern of them sending things out which evidently aren't fit for service, and hoping for the best. Obviously you have to question the competency of the engineering management which allow this to happen. Given the amount of times this seems to happen on one of the last buses to leave the depot in the morning, I assume there is some measured statistic for meeting PVR each day - which evidently they will do anything to hit (though I wonder how this works when that bus then breaks almost immediately?). 

You hope that the installation of new management at the very top will improve standards across the board.