(9 hours ago)Kuyoyo wrote There will more than likely be a re-working of the 30/31/36 boards at your next rota change to move towards a similar set-up to Sunderland's Es and all of Stockton's boards - whereby buses aren't out from early morning until late evening anymore. Stockton changed to this form of working last autumn with backshift drivers now mainly have breaks at the depot and taking a bus from the yard for their back half of driving (not always the originally allocated bus for that board either during the week - Sundays it's a different story as only a handful of late turns have fresh buses come from the depot, the majority on Sundays stay out from start of service until end of service).
Granted Slatyford depot has a different set of routes, but some of the dead mileage and boards that Stockton have in place now, is absolutely bonkers.