RE: North West Bus Operations
As the work awarded to Tower seems to require 73 schooltme-only duties, it requires a very big "smaller operator" - considerably bigger than any of the operations of the "not big group" firms involved around the north east scene. As the Merseyside work is peak-only, implying part-time drivers, I would have thought finding enough drivers might well be a challenge, especially if it is all out of one depot. Most of the schooltime local bus services up here - Nexus services and their counterparts in Northumberland and Durham - are done by full-time drivers as part of integrated depot operations at multiple locations.